Man's Ontology

The Mystic Pride is a feature of the inner PHARISEE. It is very difficult to point out the faults of those who are "sincerely mistaken" since they feel super-transcended, they claim to be Gods, without having put their foot in the first step of the Holy Stairway yet (Weor, 1967). Unquestionably, one cannot become a true enlightened if one is full of Pride. I could never think of a God who is drunk, who fornicates, who is adulterous, fighter, selfish, envious, jealous, lustful, etc. We are all of it, indeed (Weor, 2000).

So on the subject of God's ontological distinction from men; that we are vile worms in the mud of the earth and not God by nature, my favorite proof text for this when discussing with new-agers are:

Put them in [reverent] fear of You, O LORD, So that the nations may know they are but [frail and mortal] men. Selah (Psalm 9:20). Now the Egyptians are men and not God, And their horses are flesh and not spirit, And the LORD will stretch out His hand, And he (Egypt) who helps will stumble, And he (Judah) who is helped will fall, And all of them will perish together (Isaiah 31:3). The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, [2]“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because your heart is proud And you have said and thought, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods In the heart of the seas’, Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of the earth] and not God, Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God. Ezekiel 28:1-2) [7] So I will bring strangers (Babylonians) upon you, the most ruthless and violent of the nations. And they will draw their swords Against the beauty of your wisdom And defile your splendor. [9] ‘Will you still say, “I am a god,” In the presence of him who kills you? But you are [only] a man [made of the earth] and not God, In the hands of those who wound and profane you. 

You should mind that pride is not only based on social standings, on money, on family lineage, etc. There is another kind of Pride, which is much worse than the previous forms of pride. I am referring to the MYSTICAL PRIDE. So, first of all in these studies, we must urgently eliminate from ourselves the Mystical Pride, which is very dangerous. If we succeed, then the precious virtue of Humility will flourish in ourselves.