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This Was The Very Purpose Of Creation That Each Unique, Individual Being Should Participate In Its Own Way In The Divine Being, Should Realize Its Eternal 'idea' In God, Should 'become' God By Participation, God Expressing Himself Through That Unique Being.

-Bede Griffiths

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This Was The Very Purpose Of Creation

Bede Griffiths

This Was The Very Purpose Of Creation That Each Unique, Individual Being Should Participate In Its Own Way In The Divine Being, Should Realize Its Eternal 'idea' In God, Should 'become' God By Participation, God Expressing Himself Through That Unique Being.

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