Meister Eckhart says it better than anyone. Attractive mystic, hard-working scholar, profound psychologist six hundred years before the science of psychology had begun, Eckhart wrote as follows:-
..by this kingdom of God we understand the soul, for the soul is of like nature with the Godhead. Hence all that has been said there of the kingdom of God, how God himself is the kingdom, may be said with equal truth of the soul. St. John says, “All things were made by him.” This is to be understood of the soul, for the soul is all things. The soul is all things because she is the image of God….So much..is God in the soul, that his whole
divine nature depends on her. It is a higher state for God to be in the soul than for the soul to be in God.The soul is not blissful because she is in God, she is blissful because God
is in her. Rely upon it, God himself is blissful in the soul.”
So it was that I thought to welcome the soul of another into my soul; not to expel the spirit of God, but to dwell beside Him, in harmony. In that way I hoped to create an indwelling that mirrored the Divine indwelling, and also to make some sense of the holocaust of the Second World War, particularly of the campaign in communist Russia where it is said that 20 million people were killed As Plotinus wrote, “The teaching is only of the whither and how to go, the vision itself is the work of him who has willed to see”.
Throughout all three of my books, “Man’s Relationship with God”, a “Reconciliation with Science and War”, and a “View of Nature and the Universe”, there is the underlying assumption that the whole point of religious theory, the whole point of trying to understand the complexity of evolution, the whole point of mastering some of the principles of conflict, is so that the conduct of a man or woman will be a sterling example of how to behave, to those round about. Not necessarily a comfortable example. Not necessarily successful; but demonstrating unequivocally that underneath the thick velvet glove, there has to be the mailed fist, otherwise society degenerates into chaos. The problems of religion all centre round conduct.