2 Corinthians 3:18 joined to Blake’s axiom, and used to explain how a man could possibly become God without having earned it. The chain has four links and 1832 states all four in one paragraph: man becomes what he beholds; therefore no man becomes God until he can see God; but it is God and God alone who unveils himself that man can see him; and the unveiling has no last step, so it is an everlasting expansion of the unveiling. We all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another. The veil is identified — the veil that we wear is this garment — and the sequence is described as a cycle with a return leg, which is the part worth having and is easy to miss: I come symbolizing him who unveiled himself before me, and then I became him. Then he sent me back into the world, once more encompassed in my prejudice; and then he will tear it down, and unveil himself with a still greater glory, and send me back again. So each unveiling is followed by a redeployment, not by a graduation. At 1832 the Elohim are made to work the same way — let us make man in our image BY THE SAME PROCESS OF UNVEILING OURSELVES; and because man becomes what he beholds, they’ll become us, as I unveil them — so the creation of man in the image is an act of self-exposure rather than of fabrication. BOUNDARY, and a lane should test it. [become-what-you-contemplate] carries the same Blake axiom turned the other way: love and hate change us into what we contemplate, conquerors become like the conquered, so qualities are changed by contemplating the lovely. That is about what a MAN chooses to look at. This motif is about what GOD does — he lifts the veil, the beholding is involuntary, and the transformation is progressive and endless. Where a passage has only the bare axiom and no unveiling, it probably belongs to the other one. COUNT: mine and provisional — man becomes what he beholds is in six lectures (1209, 1453, 1766, 1812, 1832, 1918); with unveiled face only in 1085 and 1832, and from one degree of glory to another only here, so the axiom travels much further than the verse does.