222 The Evolution of Transcendence [CH. 



in kind, from the Perfect Experience, and destined to 

 become identical with that. 



Man is immanent and transcendent; man's experience 

 of reality takes cognisance of degrees, yet is one whole; 

 man is triune because he is personal; we know that man 

 is in eternal life already, and will experience it ever 

 more fully because he sees already process and being as 

 one whole, which whole is comprehended in the perfect 

 experience of God, while yet each man's experience is 

 his own; his self -identity indestructible. 



We have, so to speak, woven some portions of a tap- 

 estry. They must now be joined so that we may trace 

 the pattern, grotesquely inadequate though it must be; 

 so that we may see how they limn a crude sketch of the 

 Whole which is the Ultimate Reality. Many fragments 

 will be lacking; a few of these we must weave and set 

 in place. The largest of the missing fragments is that 

 which completes the picture of the evolutionary aspect 

 of personality, and this we must first supply. At best our 

 tapestry will be no closer to a photographic record than 

 is that of Bayeux. Below the main motive many crea- 

 tures will be represented whose relation with the rest is 

 unexplained, yet which somehow are necessary to the 

 whole. 



The ground-work of all is this that creation must be 

 the creation of something new. If this be not the case, all 

 we have said of the nature of personality, all we have 

 said of Reality, crumbles to ruin, and we are left to 

 grope blindly in the dust-cloud of that great fall. If 

 personal experience, with its judgment of the shapes 

 and forms and purposes of Appearance, be unrelated to 

 Reality, we have no criterion at all, and even our judg- 

 ment of the structure of Appearance is valueless. If, on 

 the other hand, we can make true value-judgments, 

 touch Reality in its appearances, trust our intuitive 

 knowledge that the form of things does really bear 



