The Path of Higher Math

I'm thinking about two apparently antinomial verses, both utterances by Jesus in the Book of John. 1) "I and the Father are One" and 2) "The Father is Greater than I". The answer perhaps lies in the concept of an x/y coordinate grid, i.e. vertical/horizontal; this grid goes out in all directions. The grid is God but the only visible part is where x meets y. Around two thousand years ago x met y on Earth in Jesus, the form of the visible God. When Jesus moved on earth (horizontal) He was representing God in His entirety ("are one"); when Jesus appealed to the Heavens (vertical) He was acknowledging His limitations as well as recognizing the vastness of the invisible part of the grid.