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existent personality and is then no 

 more identical with God than the cell 

 is with man. 



Man as an entity for himself must 

 have the natural limitations of the part. 

 Conceived by God man is eternal in the 

 divine sense, but conceived by himself 

 man's eternal life is clothed in the lim- 

 itations we call time. The eternal is 

 a constant present without beginning 

 or end, without past or future. What 

 is present to man must suffer these 

 limitations; in other words, man must 

 be born, must go through an evolution, 

 or what is the same, become to himself 

 what he has been eternally to God. In 

 this respect man's relation to God may 

 be compared to the relation of a new- 

 born child to its earthly father. To 

 him the nature and scope of the child 

 is perfectly clear, but the child is un- 

 conscious of it and must awaken to an 

 understanding thereof, that is to say, 

 must become to itself what it already 

 is to its father. 



Living beings form a continuous 



