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of conscious will and it is only realised through the 

 perpetual indwelling of spirit. This lost sight of, will 

 becomes aimless; mediating activity is directed to no 

 goal; true unity is gone. Indwelling is the realisation 

 of sonship, as fulfilling the active will of fatherhood. 

 Fatherhood can only be itself through the coexistence 

 of the other two. Personality is a whole, and being whole 

 itself, can reach out and touch the wholeness of Reality, 

 which is itself Personal self-experience, even though it 

 cannot embrace and comprehend it fully, till outside 

 limitation be wholly swallowed up in transcendence and 

 in the self-limitation that comes with that. 



This is only another way of stating what we have 

 already said that human personality is only estab- 

 lished when true immanence begins purposive in- 

 dwelling when the phenomenal series is recognised as 

 temporal, contrasted with, yet complementary to, the 

 eternal series. Immanence and transcendence are abso- 

 lutely correlative and complementary, because of the 

 nature of personality. Fatherhood, sonship, and spirit- 

 hood are the basis of Koiwvla, whether for God or 

 man. Personality is the ground-work of Love: the 

 capacity for fellowship; and man's personality is the 

 same as God's. 



We see, then, that the problem of a double conscious- 

 ness in God is artificial the result of a pragmatic 

 necessity for beings who live and act in a material en- 

 vironment to deal with parts as if they were the whole, 

 to treat the relatively real as absolute reality. 



This practical necessity Infiltrates our thought in a 

 thoroughly undesirable way. We cannot help doing in 

 thought what we are accustomed to do when some chain 

 of events calls for action, namely, ringing round a 

 certain number of ideas about obviously related con- 

 crete facts as a closed system, deciding that these alone 

 are relevant, and making them the foundation of our 



