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DUALISM OF BRAHMANICAL AND ZOROASTRIAN PHILOSOPHERS. 153 
What we may surely believe is that God is always creating, 
and that out of His eternal Workshop (if I may so speak 
reverently) are for ever issuing new spirits and new material 
forms. 
Surely, too, we must believe that God is for ever super- 
intending and supporting His creations; and that not a 
single spirit and not a single material atom can exist for a 
single instant without His upholding and vivifying power. 
We Christians, at any rate, who feel that we depend on 
our Creator for life and breath and all things, may surely so 
interpret the words of Christ, “ My Father worketh hitherto 
and | work.” 
‘It has occurred to me that, with the permission of the 
President, I might add a few remarks to my paper; and in 
‘the first place I should like to remind you that the Brah- 
manical expression for the One Infinite Bemg—God is 
Kwistence, Thought, Joy—has been compared with the Chris- 
tian statement of God’s tri-une Nature. 
God is Life. God is Light. God is Love. 
In regard to this point, however, I may observe that the 
Sanskrit translators of the Bible have translated the words 
I am the Life by a phrase meaning I am the Life-causer, 
because we believe that God is not simply Pure Life but the 
Giver of Life to His creatures, 
The difference, too, between God is Joy and God is Love is 
to be noted (though we may also note that the Apostle 
St. Paul’s three primary fruits of the Spirit are Love, Joy, 
Peace). 
I may also be permitted to point out as noteworthy that 
the idea of a peculiar sacredness attaching to the number 
“three” runs through all Indian systems of thought. 
And, in explanation of the prevalence of this idea, I may 
remind you of a well-known fact—that there are not a few 
cases in which three seems to exhaust all that can be con- 
ceived of any subject. 
For example, Past, Present, and Future exhaust the whole 
conception of time; Length, Breadth, and Height, of space ; 
Solid, Liquid, and Gaseous, of matter; and not less than 
three lines (or a triangle) enclose a space. 
Let me also add that one object of my remarks this even- 
ing has been to draw attention to the fact that Brahmanism 
that the living agent may exist and even be active apart from matter 
(Anal. i., 1). (See page 28.) 
