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Men of inferior intelligence quite naturally want a God who will be
attentive to their requirements, interested in their personal lives,
and helpful during times of distress. That is to say, they want a
human God. Men of superior intelligence come in time to consider God
as an impersonal essence that is everywhere present, and consequently
embodied in themselves and to be communed with interiorly too. That is
to say, they recognize only a mystical God. Men of the highest
intelligence perceive that the "I" is illusory, that it is only
ignorance of this fact that causes man to regard himself as a separate
embodiment of the divine essence, and that in reality there is only
this nondual nameless being. How impossible it is to get men of
inferior intelligence to worship or even to credit such an Existence
which has no shape, no individuality, no thinking even! Hence such men
are given a figure after their own image as God, a deity that is a
personal, human, five-sensed being.

— Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 1: What Is God? > # 11....Paul Brunton

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