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What does it mean to say that "ever since the creation of the world \[God's\] eternal power and deity, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things \[God\] has made"? It means, I would argue, that to experience oneself and others as all of us do is to experience them as absolutely dependent, for their meaning as well as
 their being, on the all-encompassing whole, understood as the universal individual. But for this individual's creative activity of making whatever else comes to be really possible, in fact as well as in principle, there would be neither self nor others. And but for its consummative activity of incorporating whatever comes to be into its own all-inclusive being, neither self nor others would be really real or have any abiding meaning. So, to experience self and others is to experience through them the One of which they are all parts, and but for which they would neither be and be really real,nor have any meaning at all \-\- and, in this sense, to understand and clearly see (\!) "the invisible things of \[God\], even (God's\] eternal power and deity."