n] The Triunity of Man 67 



tending, and in this alone he finds rest. The time-process 

 of creative activity is completed and explained in mutual 

 relationship. Further, since the recognition of this is 

 dependent on the realisation of the ego as a persisting and 

 real existence amid all change, the thing which underlies 

 the creative impulse is timeless. The process of man's 

 fatherhood is to be explained in the light of the end; it 

 is continuous with the unconscious fatherhood of the 

 lower organisms, but the meaning of this last is to be 

 found in what it becomes or tends to, not in what it was. 

 As soon as self -consciousness is reached the self is recog- 

 nised as a purposive creator, and the passage into the 

 timeless begins. Man is always passing from immanence 

 into transcendence, from duration to simultaneity, from 

 process to pure being 1 . 



But man's creativeness is not wholly external in its 

 activity. He is creative for himself as well as for others. 

 He creates himself for himself, in Time, in the process of 

 his own becoming. In that measure in which he is 

 transcendent he is a perpetual source of the activity of 

 love, directed both inwardly upon himself, as the motive 

 of his being, and the material of his inner experience, 

 and outwardly upon others, as the means of sharing 

 the experience of mutuality, both in the creative sense 

 of wishing others to share his experience, and in the 

 dependent sense of wishing to share the experience of 

 those others himself. Thus in the father aspect of man 

 there is something that is of eternity, not of time. Man 

 creates because he is, not because he becomes. Animals 

 create, but they do so unconsciously; their creative 

 activity is an insurance policy contingent on the life 

 that is yet to be, and only maturing when that life is 

 actualised. 



Turn now to the aspect of man's sonship. 



He feels his dependence as well as his independence. 

 1 Evolution and Spiritual Life, chb. v. and vi. 



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