io8 The Triunity of Personality [CH. 



of a personality which simply is, and does not undergo 

 process in duration we think of a unity substantiated, 

 or determined as what it is, by three self-determining 

 qualities compounded with being, of which we may 

 speak when we abstract each from the rest a creative 

 being, a thinking being, and a freely-loving being which 

 interpenetrate in such a way that the creative being is 

 not merely a creative being, but also thinks and freely 

 experiences emotion, and so with each of the others. 

 But then, each being must be in a sense a person, since 

 each is a being manifesting will, intellect and emotion, 

 though one or other of these three predominates, thus 

 differentiating the three persons of the transcendent 

 personality, and making them not mere identities. And 

 all three are necessary to compose the unity which we 

 call the personality. If this be true of any transcendent 

 personality, it must be true of the Personality of God. 

 The Godhead if it is a Personality must be a unity, which 

 unity is substantiated or determined as itself, by three 

 persons, completely interpenetrating, yet each differentiated 

 from the others by the stress or emphasis of its individual 

 functioning, yet none of these Persons could actually 

 exist apart from the rest: the three are substantiated 

 in one Being. 



Thus, from our consideration of personality we have 

 been led to the conclusion that any personality that 

 simply is, in simultaneity, is composed of three hypo- 

 stases which are not merely aspects but in very fact 

 persons, though not self-existent persons that could 

 exist as complete, in isolation ; and that without these 

 three the personality could not exist at all. Conse- 

 quently, if God be personal, He must also be Three 

 Persons in One God. 



Our conclusion, if valid, must also hold good of human 

 personality under the limited conditions of earthly life; 

 for we have seen that as soon as an organism becomes 



