KEAL PERSONALITY OR TRANSCENDENTAL EGO. 1^)3 



last paper, the extraordinary suggestion that because God has 

 revealed himself in the name Jehovah, which means existence 

 (derivation not certain but perhaps) and comprises the three aspects. 

 Past, Present and Future (which it certainly does not), therefore 

 there must be a Past, Present, and Future to God ; it might just 

 as well be argued that, because the Deity has revealed Himself to 

 us in the name GOD, which word comprises three letters, one of 

 which is at the beginning, another in the middle and a third at the 

 end, therefore the Deity must have had a beginning, has now a 

 middle, and will come to an end. He is startled at hearing for the 

 first time that his Transcendental Ego is Omniscient, but his refer- 

 ence to "Evolutionary imaginations" shows so clearly the state of 

 his knowledge upon that subject, that I venture to remind him 

 that he himself, or rather the clothing which is now being used by 

 his Physical Ego, has, during his present life, gone through all 

 the different stages of evolutionary development, which, since the 

 beginning of life on this planet, have been employed to build up his 

 body in its present state. Embryology has shown us that, during 

 Gestation, each human embryo is a replica of the past ; it passes 

 through the different stages from protoplasm to man, being unre- 

 cognizable at certain stages from a monad, an amoeba, a fish with 

 gills, a lizard, and a monkey with a tail and dense clothing of hair 

 over the whole body. The human embryo has also, at an early 

 stage, the thirteenth pair of ribs, which is found in lower animals 

 and is still seen in a very rudimentary form in Anthropoid 

 Apes, but which disappears from the human embryo before birth. 

 Professor Orchard is of course quite wrong in saying I have stated 

 that the Physical Ego came before the Transcendental Ego ; I have 

 done nothing of the sort. The Spiritual, being independent of 

 time, has always existed but, before its advent to man, the genus 

 homo was, as I specially pointed out, an animal pure and simple ; it 

 was the advent of the Spiritual, or its taking root in that animal's 

 mind, which gave it, or made manifest in it, a physical Ego and 

 raised man far above all other animals. I have now dealt with 

 what Professor Orchard calls "blemishes" in my paper but which, 

 I submit, are nothing but the result of his own imaginary creation. 



It is a pleasure to turn to the remarks of the Chairman, he recog- 

 nizes how difficult and in many cases impossible it is, in treating 

 Metaphysical subjects, to find words to express the exact meaning ; 



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