176 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



if it is considered as one point in the 

 numerical system, in which case it has 

 them all as attributes. Thus, still re- 

 ferring to the number ten, this may 

 be considered complete within itself 

 without considering the higher num- 

 bers, whereas if we wish to compre- 

 hend it fully we must see it as a link 

 in the numerical system. Ten would 

 not be the half of twenty without the 

 latter, and so on. The existence of the 

 higher is after all required for that of 

 the lower as fully as the existence of 

 the lower is necessary to that of the 

 higher. 



Because each entity is higher accord- 

 ing as it has a larger number of the 

 rest as its positive and a smaller num- 

 ber as its negative attributes, it fol- 

 lows that the highest entity, or Deity, 

 has no negative attributes but only 

 positive ones, which of course is the 

 true meaning of the expression that 

 God is the most perfect being. 



As a lower being is more perfectly 

 defined when considered included in a 



