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of the fulfilling of self-limitation. The possibility of all 

 this is characteristic of personality, for Koivwia means 

 self-limitation in its first movement self-limitation 

 which vanishes in the fulfilment of reciprocity. 



Let us turn back once more to man and see if, in the 

 light of what we have just said, we can gain further 

 illumination on the difficulty of Christhood. 



We must not forget that, because God is immanent, 

 He is necessarily incarnate in each of us. This is not an 

 incarnation that could fulfil the union between man and 

 God, however, for it is only through communion with 

 our individually unique spirits that He is incarnate ; it is 

 so to speak a mediate, not an absolute or immediate in- 

 carnation; and the communion cannot be perfect, be- 

 cause of sin. None the less He is incarnate in us, and in 

 us Christ dies daily and the world is daily redeemed 1 . 



God is also Indwelling Spirit, and the Transcendent 

 One. All processes make up one Whole. Further, in 

 us is found the same absence of full consciousness of the 

 Eternal series that we found in Christ, and yet some- 

 thing of the same touch with the Eternal, through the 

 Transcendent God, and necessarily so, if Christ was 

 true man ; the experience of man and of Christ must be 

 identical. When we men enwrap ourselves wholly in 

 reasoning about the temporal series we fail to grasp the 

 eternal at all. Yet when we reach out to the eternal the 

 temporal remains real to us, and indeed only becomes 

 the more important as we realise its inter-relations with 

 the Eternal Whole the relativeness of its reality. 

 Evolving personality means for us evolving self-limi- 

 tation ; and when we discover this final purpose of free- 

 dom we become immanent in, instead of being merely 

 limited externally by, the material which we subordinate 

 to our will. 



Sonship in man is indeed begotten only of fatherhood 

 1 Cf. Pringle Pattison, op. cit. p. 270. 



