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made/' the " eternal Power and Godhead," and attested the 

 Goodness, of the Creator. 

 9 In pursuance of our theory that Quahties are manifestations 

 c or aspects of the substance to which they belong, and tha t all 

 p things (including persons, a " person " being a thing possessing 

 3 consciousness and will) have, as a common attribute, the power 

 > or capability of Self-manifestation, it behoves us to supply an 

 I answer to the inquiry : What is the aim and object of self- 

 ^ manifestation ? The aim and object is Communion. The 

 %' purpose and result of communion is Unification through assimila- 

 tion — -The One passes into The Many, and The Manv are in The 

 One. 



All things belong to one great family, they are members of 

 one body, The Many in The One. And The Good Creator has 

 tempered this body together so that the members should have 

 the same care one for another and show a common sympathy. 

 The One in the Many implies Self-manifestation in thus going 

 out to others. This leads us to see that the necessary condition 

 for communion is receptivity, or apprehension, which in a person 

 ? involves will and willingness. Since Like goes out to Like," 

 « it follows that, in order to communion between A and B, there 

 2, must be, as the one goes out to the other, a receptivity (or an 

 ^ apprehension) based on some likeness, i.e., A and B must have 

 ^ something in common. This, therefore, is a sine qiid non for 

 B communion. In the case of a person there is the added condition 

 of willingness. The reason why " Like goes out to Like " is 

 to be found in the attraction of the something which is common 

 to both. Between two persons, and between a person and an 

 impersonal, this attractive force can be increased or decreased 

 at the choice of the will ; thus personal communion is dependent 

 on personal will. The will is itself acted on by those two springs 

 of human conduct — the heart and the head, the desires and 

 K affections and the reason. The heart asks : " Is it pleasant ? " 

 1 the head asks : " Is it beneficial ? " The heart says : "I like 

 p it " ; the head says : "I will think it over, and consider whether 

 ^ it is wise." The heart desires ; the head considers. In the 

 ^ decisions of wisdom the two should be unanimous. 

 ^ Especially is such unanimity important in regard to com- 

 munion with GOD. HE laments, over HIS People's apostasy, 

 " Israel doth not know, MY People doth not consider " (Isaiah 

 i, 3) ; and, when they return to HIM, wonderful blessing is 

 promised in order " that they may see, and know, and consider, 



