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reason, too, men have ever tended to look upon Reve- 

 lation itself as progressively unfolding. In other words, 

 the tendency has ever been to make the mistake of 

 attributing to the changelessly perfect Thought which is 

 forever unfolded in the world those changes in time which 

 in reality take place only in the unfolding consciousness 

 of man himself. 



And now we are the better prepared to recognize that 

 in his efforts to construct a system of thought man is not 

 really engaged in the idle task of evolving from his own 

 inner consciousness a phantasmal creation, pleasing pos- 

 sibly to himself, but having no vital reality or relation to 

 the actual world. On the contrary, he is engaged in the 

 effort to discover the characteristics of thought which are 

 universal and necessary, regardless of his own special 

 phantasies. In other words, he is engaged in the effort to 

 trace out on the one hand the fundamental characteristics 

 of thought in its universal nature, as constituting the very 

 essence of the world as a whole, and on the other hand to 

 discover his own fundamental relation thereto. The out- 

 come of all which is the infinitely important discovery, as 

 we have seen, that thought as such is one in nature, real- 

 ized in changeless completeness and perfection in the 

 Cosmos, and also in perpetual process of realization in 

 man himself. 



Nothing, then, is "unknowable" precisely nothing. 

 The "unknowable" is the non-existent. The universe, 

 or Cosmos, in its very nature is Intelligence in absolute 

 manifestation an open revelation to all beings capable 

 of asking questions and receiving answers. 



The one true system of Thought is the actual System 

 of the World; and, conversely, the system of the world is 



