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perceiving the temporal series, while the Transcendent 

 Experience is eternal. It is relative to A, B and C, not 

 relative to Transcendent Experience. This I believe is 

 the key, as we implied in the preliminary chapter. And 

 with this we must leave the problem, confessing it in 

 part unsolved, content only to have stated it 1 . 



We need only remind ourselves that the need of 

 the creation of A , B and C, lies in the centrifugal and 

 altruistic nature of love, which demands expansion, 

 demands other subjects of the experience of love, not 

 because it needs them itself for its own fuller satis- 

 faction, but because its very nature demands that 

 others should enter into its bliss; not for its own sake, 

 but for theirs; and that so, creation is ever present 

 in, and belongs to, the eternal series of God's active 

 Being. 



We return then to the question of the addition of 

 Christ's experience of humanity to His Divine Being. 

 In the light of what we have just said this presents less 

 difficulty than we might expect. Christ is the first- 

 fruits. In Him humanity first enters into the Perfect 

 Experience. By His bringing of Humanity into the 

 Godhead, the entry of other human beings becomes 

 possible, for there is the basis of perfect union between 

 God on one side and the souls of men on the other. And, 

 here too we see that before and after has reference, 

 not to the Experience of the Son, and so of the whole 



1 The preliminary and final chapters were written after this one. 

 It will be noticed that the above problem is there dealt with in 

 a less tentative manner. Nevertheless, in accordance with th 

 plan of dealing with the various questions involved in our mode 

 of treating the Doctrine of the Trinity in a series of essays con- 

 verging on the doctrine, and then gathering up the threads, 

 I thought best to leave each essay substantially in its original 

 form, as I have stated in the preface, in order to show how 

 constantly one is brought up against the same questions. 



