i] The Triunity of God 4 1 



as we shall see, but we must consider them also. God is 

 Eternal, the unchangeable I AM. But it is no dead un- 

 changeableness; rather it comprehends within itself a 

 never-ending activity. Besides the inner activity of 

 eternal reciprocity, this activity manifests itself exter- 

 nallyas creation. Why.if the internal activityof recipro- 

 city is perfect, God's activity should function externally 

 at all, is a question which may be reserved for the pre- 

 sent. The most certain fact of our experience is that 

 ourselves and the universe exist, and that, since we 

 believe that there is a God, and must believe it, our- 

 selves and the universe do represent the external 

 functioning of the activity of God. 



We cannot fully understand the next point, but God 

 is certainly pure thought and knowledge, though not 

 only pure thought and knowledge. He knows Himself, 

 and knowing Himself He is omniscient, comprehending 

 all knowledge within the circle of His Being and His 

 Activities. In all His creation He is omnipresent; 

 nothing is without the perfect round of His experience. 

 He is within His creation, filling it with His presence; 

 but yet His creation is not within Himself. It is in pro- 

 cess of becoming through Him ; He is, yet is becoming 

 in it. He is not the creation which He indwells, but the 

 creation is in Him as well as through Him. It is real, 

 but is not the absolute Reality of His transcendent 

 experience, since it is becoming 1 . God is then omni- 



1 Cf . Bradley, Essays on Truth and Reality, e.g. " And so again 

 it is with the becoming and the endless incompletion of the world. 

 To deny that this side of things is fact would in my view be 

 absurd. But on the other hand to accept this side of things as 

 real in itself and unconditionally, and to proclaim it as being in 

 its own character the last word about the Universe, to me seems 

 no less ridiculous. In this volume I have urged that what matters 

 and what is ultimately good, is the whole, and that there is no 

 aspect of life which, abstracted and set utterly by itself, can 



