- He makes him the king, because he thinks that the king is the greatest person. He gives him the throne and crown.
- He calls him the Master of the Day of Judgment, because he knows there is no justice in this world, so he thinks God must be the Judge.
- He thinks all that is beautiful, surrounds him with angels, conceives the form of angels as human beings.
- He pictures God in the form of man.
- There have been attempts of putting all sorts of things on one being. The Chinese used to make a dragon to which all things were attached -- fish, lion, tiger, man, everything that existed -- in order to make one form intelligible to serve as a symbol suggesting and teaching many things.
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