It is matter that lives, animated by the force that dwells in it, with absolute unity, without separation or duality.

Man is God, and the world is God also." He was silent for a moment and then added with energy: "But if you ask me for that personal God invented by religions, in the likeness of a man, who brought the world out of nothing, who directs our actions, who classifies souls according to their merits, and commissions Sons to descend into the world to redeem it, I say seek for Him in that immensity, see where He hides His littleness.

But even if you were immortal you might spend millions of years passing from one star to another without ever finding the corner where He hides His deposed despotic majesty.

This vindictive and capricious God arose in men's brains, and the brain is a human being's most recent organ, the last to develop itself.

When man invented God the world had existed millions of years.".