Divinity...

Divinity is like the seed that grows in the heart of the flower: it is the same seed that was the origin of the plant, and it comes again in the heart of the flower. In a similar way the same God who was manifested as the seed of the plant of this creation rises again towards fulfillment, and in that fulfillment He produces the seed in the heart of that flower which is divinity.

Some religious authorities have tried to recognize the divinity of Christ while ignoring the divinity of humanity. They have tried to make Christ different from what may be called human; but by doing so they have covered the main truth that religion had to give to the world, which was that divinity resides in humanity, that divinity is the outcome of humanity, and that humanity is the flower in the heart of which divinity was born as a seed....

It is the development of humanity that culminates in divinity; thus Christ is the example of the culmination of humanity. It would be hiding the greatest human virtue to hide this secret, which is the key to the mystery of the whole universe. No doubt compared with God divinity is the imperfection of God, but it is still the perfection of man.

It is just like a drop of water that is entirely and absolutely water, and yet it is a drop in comparison with the ocean. The ocean is God, but the drop is divine...

God always comes and always shows Himself through the heart of the godly. The comparison of the divine with God is just like a sunglass placed before the sun. The sunglass partakes of the heat of the sun and transfers the heat to the earth; and so the divine man, the messenger in all ages, comes and partakes of God's rays and hands them down to earth in the form of the divine message. Although a sunglass is not the sun, yet when it is exposed to the sun it partakes of the sun and begins to show the quality of the sun. So it is with the souls who focus their hearts on God....And then all that is in God becomes manifest in man.

From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN