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\n\t\t\tMan<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Shastras use the same word for man and the one divine and universal Being\u2014Purusha\u2014as if to lay stress upon the
\noneness of humanity with God. Nara and Narayana are the eternal couple, who, though they are two, are one, eternally
\ndifferent, eternally the same. Narayana, say the scholiasts, is he who dwells in the waters, but I rather think it means he who is
\nthe essence and sum of all humanity. Wherever there is a man, there there is Narayana; for the two cannot be separated. I think
\nsometimes that when Christ spoke of himself as the Son of Man, he really meant the son of the Purusha, and almost find myself
\nimagining that anthropos <\/i>is only the clumsy Greek equivalent, the literal and ignorant translation of some Syrian word which
\ncorresponded to our Purusha. <\/span> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBe that as it may,
\n\t\t\tthere can be no doubt that man is full of divine possibilities\u2014he is
\n\t\t\tnot merely a term in physical evolution, but himself the field of a
\n\t\t\tspiritual evolution which with him began and in him will end. It was
\n\t\t\tonly when man was made, that the gods were satisfied\u2014they who had
\n\t\t\trejected the animal forms,\u2014and cried<\/span>
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\t\t\tसुकृतमेव<\/font>,
\n\t\t\t<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t"Man indeed is well
\n\t\t\tand wonderfully made; the higher evolution can now begin.” He is like God, the sum of all other types and creatures from the animal to the god, infinitely variable where they are fixed, dynamic where they, even the highest, are static, and, therefore, although
\nin the present and in his attainment a little lower than the angels, yet in the eventuality and in his culmination considerably higher
\nthan the gods. The other or fixed types, animals, gods, giants, Titans, demigods, can rise to a higher development than their
\nown, but they must use the human body and the terrestrial birth to effect the transition.
\n   <\/span> <\/p>\n

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