We have here the constantly recurring pantheistic formula, Thesis, Analysis, Synthesis ; Being, Development, Restoration. The Infinite, the Finite, and their Identity. The principal differ- ence between the Brahminical system and the theories of the later pantheists, is that the latter make the universe co-eternal with God. The Infinite from eternity to eternity develops itself in the Finite. Whereas, according to the former, there was an incon- ceivably long period of repose antecedent to the process of devel- opment, and that process after millions of millions of ages, is to be followed by a like period of unconsciousness and rest.
Relation of Infinite Being to the World.
2. The relation of God to the world, or rather of the Infinite to the Finite, is the same in the Brahminical, as in other pantheistic systems. That relation has been already intimated. It is that of identity. The world is the existence-form of God. God is every thing, good and evil ; and everything is God. But in very diflfer^ ent degrees. There is more of Being (z. e., of God) in a plant than in unorganized matter ; more in an animal than in the plant ; more in man than in either ; more in one man, or race of men, than in another,