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yet only be so by creating others to share His existence? 

 Does not such a statement imply that His existence is 

 conditional, not absolute? Only, surely, if we draw an 

 unreal line between Being and Process, forgetting that 

 Being t's Process, since only active Being has any 

 meaning. God is the Ground, but the consequence is 

 involved in the very nature of the Ground. Transcend- 

 ence cannot be isolated from immanence, or it ceases 

 to be transcendence. Personality cannot be isolated 

 from creative activity, or it ceases to be personality. 

 Personality is self -existent because it is the complete and 

 active whole. God s Love apart from any attributes 

 (or self-manifestations); but yet He would not be Love 

 if He did not manifest Himself as such through His 

 attributes. The attributes are the essential index of His 

 Absolute Being. Process flows inevitably from Being 

 to fulfil the wholeness of Reality. This it is that the 

 doctrine of the Holy Trinity brings out. God is One 

 because He is Three. He is Three because He is self- 

 existent Love. He is self -existent Love because He eter- 

 nally makes, substantiates and vindicates Himself as 

 Love through perpetual self-surrender, self-limitation, 

 in order to share His Being with others who shall be able 

 freely to participate in it. The Whole is whole simply 

 because its wholeness is perpetually reaffirmed by pro- 

 cess. The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is simply the 

 affirmation of the basal truth that God is Personal. 



In man we see process fulfilling its purpose. Men 

 start in conditions of external determination by the 

 'otherness' of matter. They win to self-determination 

 through the concurrently achieved knowledge of trans- 

 cendence and immanence. Their growing freedom is 

 signalised by growing, purposive self-limitation. All 

 the evidence points to the final completeness of this self- 

 limitation for the sake of xoivtavia. When it is com- 

 plete, man's experience must become identical with 



