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At this point we broke off to examine the nature of 

 Christ's consciousness. This was necessary, since here 

 we find the coincidence of Godhead with Manhood, 

 brought about by the complete veiling of Godhead in 

 Flesh; God manifesting the fullness of Godhead in its 

 complete surrender; Himself emptying Himself and 

 counting Godhead not a prize a real surrender, made 

 by full acceptance of conditions that start from the 

 lower degrees of Reality as the only things known; of 

 those conditions in which men begin their childhood. 



Many problems were discussed, with the main pur- 

 pose of showing that Godhead was not separated by an 

 impassable gulf from even evolving manhood, because 

 process is real for God as well as for man. We tried to 

 face boldly the grave difficulty of Christ's Godhead, and 

 found a partial answer in the conception of His perfect 

 Manhood, taken in conjunction with this same reality 

 of process. The answer, however, was only partial, and 

 we have yet to endeavour to make it as complete as is 

 possible to human understanding. His Manhood must 

 be perfect ; there must be no withholding, no reservation, 

 in the kenosis. And the results of it must be eternally 

 real, for man and for God, even though nothing new is 

 added to God's being. 



This dilemma too found its answer implicit in the 

 wholeness of Reality, which is the truest expression of 

 the meaning of eternal life. 



All these points we pressed home by showing how 

 Christ must have been limited by the mechanism of 

 human conditions. To do this we selected the most 

 purely determinist of all psychological writers, and, 

 while pointing out the fallacies of his theoretical super- 

 structure 1 , accepted his facts, and showed that they in 

 no way detracted from our conceptions of Christhood, 



1 Appendix A. 



