I 78 Some Implications of the Incarnation [CH. 



the fact that memory moves in the past and is selected 

 from for the purposes of presentation, while transcend- 

 ence connotes an eternal now, without past or future in 

 its activities. If the premises be admitted, it is evident 

 that in the Transcendent Son the memories of the Christ- 

 life cannot persist ; only in so far as He is still the Christ, 

 indwelling time together with His fellow man (or fellow- 

 souls, if there be other grades of approach), can those 

 memories remain. We must however remember that, 

 in the chapters above referred to, we saw that the 

 results of memories must persist even in transcendence. 

 It is the experiences of A that make up the A -ness of A . 

 So, we are driven to conclude that the Christ-life must 

 leave an eternal impress upon the Eternal Son. And 

 this brings us to our second question; How are we to 

 reconcile such an added experience with the idea of 

 transcendence, and how could such addition be neces- 

 sary for the possibility of realising Creative purpose? 



Now, we have already seen 1 that the Transcendent 

 Experience of God is complete, yet can be added to with- 

 out increasing, in the sense that others can enter into 

 and share that same perfect Experience. Complete it 

 must always be, since it is the perfect self-experience of 

 a perfect God. Yet in a sense it can be added to, since 

 the end of creation, which is the end of Eternal Love, 

 is that others should enter into and share that perfect 

 experience which for them is not only a self-experience, 

 but the experience of perfectly penetrable 'others' as 

 well. A experiences A , but he also experiences B and C, 

 not as separate units but as ' others ' into whose nature 

 and point of view he can enter fully. In the same way 

 he experiences God. But we must remember that the 

 converse is also true. God experiences A and B and C, 

 in like manner, as well as Himself. And this experience 

 seems at first sight to be something added. We must 

 1 Evolution and Spiritual Life, chaps, v. and vi. 



