the seed of God...

"The seed of God is in us.

Given an intelligent and hardworking farmer,

it will
thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is;

and accordingly its fruits will be
God-nature.

Pear seeds grow into pear trees,

nut seeds into nut trees,

and God
seed into God."


Meister Eckhart
in Aldous Huxley
_The Perennial Philosophy_
NY: Harper, 1945, p. 39