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is seen as real in a sense in which the process is not. For 

 God as Immanent Being A is not A . And both these are 

 true for man as well. The end is before process for the 

 Transcendent God, but the stages of process by which that 

 end is reached are not within His transcendent knowledge, 

 for they are not in the plane of transcendence but of limita- 

 tion. As Immanent, God cannot have transcendent 

 knowledge, so here, too, His knowledge about man is 

 limited. Thus, returning to the equation / = 7 and 

 applying the thought we have just been discussing, we 

 find it true for the Transcendent God (and for trans- 

 cendent man) ; and true further (through the concept of 

 Order) for the Transcendent God even while Immanence 

 exists and this helps us to some understanding of the 

 fact that God remains Transcendent even while He is 

 Immanent. 



But it is not true for Immanent God or immanent 

 man. God is becoming, as well as man ; and thus we get 

 degrees of reality ; for in immanence is imperfect reci- 

 procity, and so imperfect unity, imperfect knowledge, 

 and actual duration. 



Yet this relativity which we have perforce introduced 

 into our conceptions of reality and knowledge does not 

 leave us without a hold on the absolutely Real 1 : without 

 some power of envisaging the whole. Man is transcen- 

 dent ; and transcendence is his anchor in the absolutely 

 Real, preventing drift in the currents and storms of 

 relative knowledge and reality. For transcendence is 

 the experience of reciprocity, and the unity that comes 

 from, and is, that; and man, by his transcendence, is 

 linked with the self -experience of God, which is absolute 

 Reality. There is no fear of drift or serious mistake. 

 All that is good, all that makes for love and self-abnega- 

 tion, belongs to the realm of the absolutely Real for 



1 For a full discussion of the relativity of knowledge and Reality 

 see Bradley, Essays on Truth and Rtality, cf. also chh. iii.-vi. infra. 



