From transcendent God to finite and imperfect world

To explain the relation of a totally transcendent God to a finite and imperfect world, the belief in emanation denies that God directly created the world but maintains rather that the world is the result of a chain of emergence through emanations. From God (the One, or the Absolute), the one prime principle, flows the divine substance; his own substance never lessens. As the flow proceeds farther from God, however, its divinity steadily decreases. When a stone is dropped into water, the circles ever widening from the point (God) where the stone fell are emanations, becoming fainter and fainter.

The above paragraph is directly from an encyclopedia.

Contemplating such concepts brings the question --where does mankind fall in those infinitely widening circles? Assume for a moment, YOU are the center of the universe, still a human being, still on this planet, but in relation to everything and everyone else -- you are the center. Where in the steady decrease of divine emanations are you? How can that be determined? Does it matter at all? Does humankind have a special dispensation of divine emanations coming to them? Why should they? What on earth would we do with it.

Does it suffice to put this nugget of potential descriptions of God's power in our understanding? What am I missing? What questions remain? Send them to me.