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lion was completed in the revelation of the Incarnation ; but 

 also in part on man's knowledge that personality can only 

 mean one thing; imperfect or perfect as may be, but 

 essentially the same; that, so, if we are persons and God is 

 Personal, we can learn His real and absolute being by learn- 

 ing our own, through the infinite projection of that self- 

 knowledge so slowly won 49 



Definitions of the word hyposiasis. It is proposed to use it 



in this book as almost interchangeable with ' person ' . .49 



God is self-differentiated into I and Thou the Logos is be- 

 gotten of God and so is eternally His Other, . . .51 



but unity is restored by the action of the Holy Spirit pro- 

 ceeding equally from Father and from Son. Being and 

 Thought are made one again in the Essential Freedom of 

 the Spirit 52 



Love implies activity, functioning externally as well as 

 internally; therefore God created a world in which loving 

 beings would come to be; . . . . . . -53 



and He indwells the world as Holy Spirit, ... 54 



and became Incarnate in order that His Experience might 

 be wholly coincident with man's, to the end that created 

 spirits might become one with Him in love 55 



Formulation of some of the difficulties that are involved in 



the conception of the Holy Trinity 56 



CHAPTER II 

 THE TRIUNITY OF MAN 



Mediate knowledge of another person, be he man or God, 

 must precede immediate knowledge 59 



We can argue from man's personality to that of God; man 



is the microcosm of the whole of God .... 62 



The existence of other beings external to a man is necessary 



to his process of becoming 63 



Man is creative; he is begotten; and he indwells matter . 64 



The fatherhood of man . . . 65 



The sonship of man ........ 67 



The mediating function of man is fulfilled through his 

 body 69 



