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is purpose in the world. We cannot look on it as out- 

 srde the scope of the Father's Will. That purpose we 

 have seen to be the achieval of freedom by the creature; 

 when the freedom of the creature is come, the self- 

 limitation of the Father will be swallowed up in fulfil- 

 ment 1 . The Will of the Father in creation even if, 

 as seems necessary, creation is a perpetual process 

 is thus directed towards the ultimate freedom of His 

 Will in perfect harmony with the wills of other beings. 

 With them, thus, His Will is in process of becoming, 

 within the sphere of immanent existence. In other 

 words, the Father is immanent in His creation, as well 

 as the Logos who mediates His Will. Finally, since the 

 issue is the emergence of love in freedom, the Holy 

 Spirit must also be in process of becoming and must be 

 immanent, as our study of the nature of personality 

 shows. Thus we see that because the Divine Trinity is 

 a Unity, all the Persons of the Godhead must indwell 

 the world, in the immanent process. We must thus 

 look on the Trinity as at the same time immanent and 

 transcendent. 



But further, because each Person is interpenetrated, 

 and determined as Himself, by the other Two, while yet 

 the stress of His nature is peculiar to Himself ; because, 

 in fact, the Persons are true hypostases distinctions, 

 each of which expresses the whole essence of Godhead 

 the immanent Father and Holy Spirit must have taken 

 part in the Godhead Incarnate in human flesh. This 

 is the truth which is misunderstood, and twisted out of 

 its proper significance, in the heresy of Patripassianism. 

 The Incarnation was the Incarnation of the Son, but in 

 the Son all Godhead is comprised, though the emphasis 

 of His Personality is not the emphasis of the Personality 

 of the Father or of the Holy Ghost. 



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