VIII.--THE NOTION OF GOD IS IMPOSSIBLE.

If God is an infinite being, there can be neither in the actual world or

in another any proportion between man and his God; thus the idea of God

will never enter the human mind. In the supposition of a life where men

will be more enlightened than in this one, the infinity of God will

always place such a distance between his idea and the limited mind of

man, that he will not be able to conceive of God any more in a future

life than in the present. Hence, it evidently follows that the idea of

God will not be better suited to man in the other life than in the

present. God is not made for man; it follows also that intelligences

superior to man--such as angels, archangels, seraphims, and saints--can

have no more complete notions of God than has man, who does not

understand anything about Him here below.

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