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itself. Only God is conscious, and waiting, active not 

 passive; Immanent because of His Transcendence. 



Here once again we come face to face with the diffi- 

 culty which, latent or patent, has dogged us all the 

 while as we pursued our train of reasoning the diffi- 

 culty of the double experience of God. We, rightly, have 

 approached it along the line of the degrees of Reality, 

 but this is not enough. The very fact that we meet it 

 again here shows it is scotched, not killed. We will, 

 therefore, follow the rule that has been pur guide 

 throughout and try to set the difficulty down clearly and 

 fully while keeping our fresh material before our minds, 

 in spite of the repetition that such a proceeding involves, 

 believing that in clear statement solution is generally 

 to be found. 



God is Immanent. Therefore He experiences process 

 and is in the temporal series, wherein are before and after , 

 and in which we have to face all the problems of deter- 

 minism, as well as those of limitation 1 . In Transcendent 



1 Tuckwell's mode of expressing the relation of immanence and 

 transcendence in man as a principle of exfoliation is at least 

 suggestive. "And so" he writes "all that happens to us, all that 

 we hear and see, all that we think and feel, all that we call our 

 history and experience is the exfoliation, under the form of time, 

 of what is already implicit within us. Hence, let us repeat, we 

 must regard time, not as real, not as ' the stuff ' of which we are 

 made, but only as the form of our exfoliation. Time is within us, 

 we are not in time. Our ego is non-temporal. And so we do not 

 move or flow. We do not travel through life leaving our past 

 behind us, as we leave the stations, the telegraph-posts, the 

 villages and other objects behind us as we journey through the 

 country by rail. All we experience is ever within us. If we think 

 otherwise we are once more greatly deluded by a metaphor. To 

 call life a journey is a useful and often beautiful figure of speech 

 when employed for religious edification ; but it is totally mislead- 

 ing if transferred to the sphere of metaphysics. What, then. I 

 remember is in me still. It happened in time; but what happened 



