The Holy War — Page 165
Proceedings—Debate 30 May 1893 165 Second— You enquired whether the Messiah had two souls or just one, and how is it possible for one being to have two souls? My answer to this is that in the ‘wholly man’ Jesus there was ‘wholly one soul’, but God Almighty, in His being, is limitless and is present everywhere inside and outside. And the meaning of mani- festation of God is simply, that He should manifest Himself in some particular place in some way; so where in this is there any indica- tion for the need of a second soul to be present in the body of Jesus and where is there any indication from this of him being devoid of God? This is a logical matter that does not need any Book, why do you hesitate to understand this issue? Third— The statement you make regarding the pull of weight as it relates to the Absolutely Subtle Being; it appears from it that you ascribe density to God and we do not believe the Being of God to be dense, so how could there be weight associated with God? For weight has to do with pull [of gravity] and pull is related to den- sity. You have not understood our argument about ‘multiplicity in Unity’. We do not divide the essence of the Godhead, nor do we consider the Persons of the Godhead to be a mix of one another. The case of our multiplicity in Unity is like unto the manner in which the attribute of Incomparability issues forth from Limitlessness and its issuing forth creates no impact in space or time, but in a cer- tain sense they both remain one, and in another sense they become many; in the same way the first Person in the three Persons of the Godhead exists in Himself, and the other two Persons apart from it are inseparable from it. How can you separate the weight of the three Persons of the Godhead into three different places? What relation does the Absolutely Subtle Being have to weight? We call that being the Absolutely Subtle Being who is perfectly the opposite of that which is dense and not just some being that is relatively more subtle than another; for example, water when compared to dirt, or air as compared to water, or fire as