"<p>I could never imagine God, probably because he is not human and earthly, but divine. Man, when he imagines and expresses God in image or statue, always imagines and expresses some bearded forefather, a sort of chieftain, with a lot of hair, in a peplum, with a woolly beard, like a rabbi or a French schoolmaster. This is how the Greeks and Romans depicted Zeus and Jupiter, and how Christianity depicts the Father. This representation has always confused me and filled me with shame. Such a man-like God, with a beard with a hollowed beard and a nose which he obviously blows out from time to time, could not be felt to be a true God. Of all the representations of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, only the idea of the Holy Spirit struck me as worthy of God. God created and administers the world, and therefore the world is certainly like Him - but God cannot be human, otherwise He would have to go to a barber. This simplemindedness has always annoyed me. My God has no beard, no peplum. He is behind all things as Power and Reason. God for me is the Intent that permeates the world. This Intent is conscious. That is why I can speak to it, without false ideas, as the minute intellect speaks to the ultimate, the Reason with capital letters.</p>"