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To resume now the main thread of our discussion : 

 We have reached a proof of God from his very 

 nature as central member in the world of freedom, 

 and let us realise how genuinely divine his being is. 

 He is verily a God unchangeably adorable, because 

 he subsists in and through his free recognition of 

 his complemental world of free associates, and only 

 so subsists. In this free eternity, he is therefore 

 in literal truth — 



That God who ever lives and loves, 



One God, one law, one element, 



And one far-off divine Event, 

 To which the whole creation moves. 



For he alone loves, who, by his spontaneous ideal, 

 has for his objects beings possessing the freedom 

 which is his own bliss. He alone loves divinely, 

 who accordingly subsists as the purely ideal Goal, 

 the final cause or "divine Event" of their being; 

 divine, because the Goal is left to be freely recog- 

 nised, and put as ideal, by the self-defining act of 

 each soul itself, and is not produced nor enacted 

 upon it by any causation that constrains. God is in 

 his proper Heaven, is no mere Maker, no player of 

 the poor role of Omnipresent Meddler ; and so each 

 soul has all its life, at source and in settled des- 

 tination, from love and in love — love that "casteth 

 out fear," even the solemnising fear which awe is, and 

 that thrills only to the beauty and the joy in God's 



