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ing, differing in this from our conception of the absolute 

 mutuality of God's experience. 



As we have just said, however, the creative activity 

 of man is not purely external; there is a fatherhood 

 a will that is directed inwards upon the self. Is there 

 also an aspect or entity we will not discuss which at 

 present- which is also directed upon the self, and which 

 differs in being a dependent and mediatorial function 

 from that creative aspect or entity we have discussed? 



Undoubtedly there is this other way in which man is 

 conscious of what we may term sonship. He knows 

 himself, can stand aside, and, so to speak, watch himself. 

 He can think himself as mediator between his will and 

 his activities. And so thinking he realises that he is 

 mediator. 



In point of fact it is his body which thus mediates in 

 his actual human life. The activities of the will are 

 realised in action, as ends, through the mediatorial 

 activity of the body. This would seem to be purely a 

 phenomenon of limitation in time and matter, and not 

 in any true sense sonship in any sense, that is, which 

 may be compared to the sonship of the Logos for it 

 would seem to have no sort of connection with the 

 transcendent ego. We need, then, to go back and ex- 

 amine this matter a great deal more carefully and in 

 detail. 



What is a man's body? It is unquestionably the 

 means by which man's creative will becomes discharged 

 in action, and it is, further, the substratum out of which 

 the innate freedom of the life process becomes able to 

 realise itself as conscious activity. As we have seen 1 , 

 without the determined basis of the body in which 

 effect followed cause in certain sequence, the freedom 

 of self-determination could never be achieved. And 

 achieved it must be, not merely given from outside, if 

 1 Evolution and Spiritual Life, ch. iii. 



