The word _self_ changes its meaning the moment we begin to think about it.

So does the word _nature_.

The range of meaning is in each case unlimited.
Yet there are limits beyond which we cannot use either word without some risk of being misunderstood.

When we are meditating on our origin and our destiny, some other word seems to be needed to enable us to complete the span of our thoughts.
Is not that word _God_?
The source of our life, the ideal end of our being,--how shall we think about these if we may not speak of them as _divine_?
And in using the word "divine," do we not set ourselves free to stretch the respective meanings of the words "self" and "nature" beyond what would otherwise have been the breaking point of each?
The true self is worthier of the name of "self" than the apparent self.

The true nature is worthier of the name of "nature" than the lower nature.