Clement of Alexandria
Yea, I say, the Word of God became a man so that you might learn from a man how to become a god.
Joseph SmithGod was once as we are now, and is an exalted person, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret.
Eliza R. SnowEach one of us in our organizations is endowed with the germs of every faculty requisite to constitute a god or a goddess.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinA very real “pantheism” if you like (in the etymological meaning of the word) but an absolutely legitimate pantheism—for if, in the last resort, the reflective centers of the world are effectively “one with God,” this state is obtained not by identification (God becoming all) but by the differentiating and communicating action of love (God all in everyone ).
It leads us to the endless and perfect end, teaching us beforehand the future life that we shall lead, according to God, and with gods; after we are freed from all punishment and penalty which we undergo, in consequence of our sins, for salutary discipline.
The man of God is consequently divine and is already holy. He is God-bearing and God-borne.
If one knows himself, he will know God, and knowing God will become like God…. His is beauty, true beauty, for it is God, and that man becomes a god, since God wills it. So Heraclitus was right when he said, “Men are gods, and gods are men.”