54 The Triunity of God [CH. 



ates an objective, external manifold as well, to share 

 that experience. Such an external manifold must con- 

 sist of beings who can share the experience of perfect love 

 to the full, in complete union with God, but who yet 

 cannot share the primordial mutuality of His own 

 internal or subjective manifold. He is when they were 

 not. They are the creation of His Fatherhood, derived 

 from his fiat through the mediating activity of the Logos 

 in a cosmos indwelt by His Free Spirit. They cannot 

 be God, even when they share His experience. All this 

 we have dealt with at some length in Evolution and 

 Spiritual Life, and it is only necessary to refer to it 

 here in order to connect our ideas of the Eternal Being 

 of God with His manifestation of Himself in the world. 



In relation to the world, then, the Fatherhood of God 

 expresses itself in creation, whereby personal beings 

 shall eventually be enabled to share His perfect experi- 

 ence. In itself this is a proof of His Love, as Father. 

 But in the method of creation mediated by the Logos, 

 in order that the freedom of the spirit of man shall not 

 be impugned and such impugning would involve an 

 unthinkable schism in the Godhead, since the Principle 

 of Freedom unites Pure Being with Pure Thought in the 

 three hypostases of the Holy Trinity God suffers self- 

 limitation in creating the conditions through which 

 freedom may be won by His creatures, thereby rendering 

 one portion of His experience imperfect; and yet 

 further, suffers the possibility of external limitation 

 from the wilful misuse of their freedom by His creatures ; 

 which possibility is eventually actualised in sin. 



Finally, that freedom may be possible, and may be 

 realised in the union of the common experience of 

 process by Himself as well as His creatures, He indwells 

 the world as the Holy Spirit. Thus God Himself under- 

 goes the changes of process, in the conditions which we 

 call duration and matter, in order that His Experience 



