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CHAPTER VII 

 THE AWAKENING OF PERSONALITY 



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Progress in freedom is the keynote of evolution . . 203 



Man is free to choose consciously between right and wrong 

 courses of action. Christ, as Man, had to make such 

 decisions constantly 205 



It seems that God must constantly renew the will to suffer 

 with His world 206 



God's self-limitation, from the creation of matter to the 

 Incarnation, is one act, and the different stages cannot be 

 isolated without falling into the fallacy of dualism. Matter 

 is simply the tool of spirit; the medium through which it 

 works; the means by which growing personalities fulfil their 

 destiny. It has no objective reality apart from mind . 206 



A discussion of Bergson's idea of the "inturning of the con- 

 sciousness on itself" in connection with the recurrence of 

 " closed systems " in the universe 209 



True freedom lies in self -limitation; and the process of 

 winning freedom becomes identical with the process of the 

 self-imposition of laws 214 



Systems tend to expand until finally there emerges the 

 fellowship of all perfected selves in perfect communion . 216 



CHAPTER VIII 

 THE EVOLUTION OF TRANSCENDENCE 



Recapitulation 217 



The conclusion to which we are driven is that man's nature 

 and experience is the same as God's, differing only in degree. 221 



Creation, to be satisfying to the creator, must lead to some- 

 thing new and something eternal 222 



The evolution of transcendence is the essence of the process 224 



The material in which this process takes place is the self- 

 limitation of the Transcendent God 225 



To be like God, men must be self-limiting too . . . 225 



When men learn to realise matter as mediating God's will, 

 they will lose all sense of its otherness, and the oppression 

 of the feeling of determination from without . . 226 



