IO4 The Triunity of Personality [CH. 



deliberately reserve something. It is the refusal of 

 communion. And when our mood has relation to things 

 only, as when we are alone ; if, for instance, the mood is 

 one of ill-temper; we are really fixing our mind on the 

 otherness of things, instead of on their relatedness to us, 

 as things of which we can make use, in which we can 

 manifest our immanence. We refuse to recognise the 

 unity of the cosmos, attending only to the perceived as- 

 pect of discreteness. Thus a mood, being partial, and in- 

 volving reservation, is entirely different from fatherhood, 

 sonship and spirithood. Whatever these may be, they are 

 at least not partial. Each by itself involves the other two, 

 though it ts not the other two, and so involves the whole. 



Along the Line we have just been pursuing we can get 

 no further. In relation to others, whether beings or 

 things, we can only say that personality has three 

 activities of functioning, which are interdependent and 

 inseparable ; and that, the more completely developed 

 the personality, the more inseparable are the functions; 

 while yet they can never merge into one another nor 

 grow less distinct. 



But when we turn again, as we did in chapter i, to the 

 relation of the personality to itself as an absolute being, 

 we gain more light. 



I am not eternally and originally self-existent, but 

 dependent on the creative will of God. Consequently 

 I must be always conscious that my creativeness is 

 derivative and not primary; that my thought cannot 

 satisfy itself completely in thinking myself, since I am 

 not all 1 ; that my freedom cannot find satisfaction in 



1 I do not mean to imply that God either could rest satisfied 

 with purely centripetal activities; really, the idea of God-before- 

 any-cosmos, though convenient as a starting-point for certain 

 trains of reasoning, is self-contradictory, for in what we under- 

 stand by the concept God there is something eternally centrifugal, 

 creative. 



