CHAPTER I 



THE TRIUNITY OF GOD 



BECAUSE men are divine, created in the image of God 

 and destined to eternal communion with Him, our 

 spirits rove in a perpetual quest while we indwell the 

 sphere of time. Furnished with our Roll, which tells us 

 what to seek and how to seek, we pursue our journey. 

 This Roll, which is God's revelation of Himself to men, 

 through men, and through the Perfect Man, is annotated 

 with marginal notes filling out the text with the experi- 

 ence and wisdom of generations ; and year by year fresh 

 appendices of revelation are added, each with its own 

 commentary. Soiled by the mud of falls in slippery 

 places ; torn by the careless haste of doubtful and hope- 

 less moments; mildewed with neglect, when it lay for- 

 gotten in arbours of careless ease; in parts illegible, in 

 parts virgin and never read ; it is still our most precious 

 possession and only guide, for in it lie recorded the 

 revelation of God and the wisdom of the ages. Our 

 quest is God Himself; the Roll, our knowledge of Him. 

 Because of the impress of the divine similitude upon 

 our nature we are drawn to God as the needle is drawn 

 to the magnet. In life M. Bergson sees the urging of a 

 vital impulse ; it is truer, looking on all process as teleo- 

 logical, to see in the process of life tractation rather than 

 impulsion. Mere impulsion brings purposeless change, 

 unless it is directed towards a Causative Reality which 

 does not change. If it. be so directed, impulsion is a 

 meaningless term. The final causation is not in Life 

 itself, but in the Causative Reality ; not in process, but 

 in the end. Nevertheless the word impulsion does 

 present an important truth. Process and its causation 

 are different aspects consequence and ground of one 



