_8. The Identity of Spirit Influence Proceeding from all Divine Beings:_ From the scriptures we learn of the perfect oneness subsisting between God, the Father, and God, the Son. "I and my Father are one," is the oft repeated declaration of the Christ.[A] "I in thee, and thou in me,"[B] is the emphasis he lays upon the oneness of himself and the Father. Granting this moral and spiritual oneness--not physical oneness, for physically our theology holds Father and Son to be distinct and separate individuals[C]--but granting this moral, intellectual and spiritual alikeness--then it must follow that the spiritual influence of each, the intellectual and moral atmosphere of each, will be the same. "The Light of Christ" will be the same or identical with the light of the Father; and with the light of all Intelligences who have participated in the divine nature and become one with the Father and the Son. So that it might be properly held that the God Immanent is as much the "Light of the Father" as "The Light of Christ;" and since that light would be identical with the light of all perfected and holy beings, participating in the Divine nature, it could receive a name that would generalize it--the "Divine Spirit, Immanent in the Universe;" or, "God, the Spirit of the Gods,[D] Immanent in the Universe;" any of these characterizations would doubtless be admissible; but since it is through the Christ that the Divine nature and spirit is manifested in our world, it is but proper that this Divine Light which lighteth every man into the world--which is creative, sustaining, vital, and intelligence-inspiring power, should bear the name of Christ--and henceforth we shall recognize it as our modern revelations do, primarily, as "The Light of Christ." But there has always been a race of divine beings in existence, an eternal race, from whom such a divine influence or atmosphere has proceeded forth to "fill the immensity of space;" and that is what I meant a few paragraphs back when I said that as the source whence the God Immanent proceeded is eternal, so too is the immanence eternal, has always existed, and will always exist by whatsoever name it might have been or may be known. [Footnote A: St. John x:30; xvii:22, et seq.] [Footnote B: Ibid, verse 21.] [Footnote C: Seventy's Year Book III, Lesson XXXV.] [Footnote D: I have so treated it in my Mormon Doctrine of Deity, pp. 166-169; also in the Seventy's Year Book No. III, Lesson XXXV.]