MESMERIC REVELATION By Edgar Allan Poe (1850)
Yes; for mind, existing unincorporate, is merely God. To create individual, thinking beings, it was necessary to incarnate portions of the divine mind. Thus man is individualized. Divested of corporate investiture, he were God. Now, the particular motion of the incarnated portions of the unparticled matter is the thought of man ; as the motion of the whole is that of God.
MESMERIC REVELATION By Edgar Allan Poe (1850)