8o The Triunity of Man [CH. 



with the spirit of God. All that a personal being is at 

 any stage is due to this cooperation, vitalised for him 

 by the force of the questing of all creation by the ilan 

 vital. In time and matter he indwells, but this indwell- 

 ing is the means of his becoming ; and what he becomes 

 is due to the interaction of his whole self his will, his 

 activity, his freedom with his environment, which is 

 the self-limited, and so indwelling, Spirit of God. 



We have seen that man's personality is made one, 

 a unity, by his freedom. But this is while he is in pro- 

 cess of bemg made, or rather, of becoming. We have 

 previously argued that in his transcendental ego his 

 creative aspect and his mediating aspect must exist. If 

 this be so, it is clear that his freedom-aspect must also 

 perdure in the realm of pure being, for otherwise he 

 would be unable to fulfil any activity whatsoever; he 

 would be eternally incomplete, and so not a person. 

 In this respect what we have said of his time-existence 

 applies with the more force to his simultaneous or time- 

 less existence 1 . For consider. 



Man is in part already transcendent, as we have seen. 

 He has an absolute existence which persists through 

 change, albeit it is yet incomplete. What we find to be 

 characteristic of this partial transcendence (if we may 

 use so self-contradictory a phrase, in the absence of a 

 better, and remembering that all it implies is that being 

 really exists for us as well as becoming, in spite of the 

 fact that conditions are such as to make us often lose 

 sight of the Ground in the practical urgency of the Con- 

 sequence) must be true of absolute existence without 

 any becoming; for absolute being can have only one 



1 If indeed simultaneity be purely timeless, which is, to say the 

 least of it, doubtful, at all events in relation to the experience of 

 time-existence as real. If durational time had no reality at all for 

 the transcendent God, neither would process have any; and then 

 immanence would become unreal and the cosmos meaningless. 



