164 ON THE REAL PERSONALITY OR TRANSCENDENTAL EGO. 



we have to describe the Infinite in terms of the finite and, by use of 

 imperfect, finite analogies and symbols, to get a glimpse of the 

 otherwise unthinkable, and even then it requires a Mystical Sense, 

 or what St. Paul called Spiritual discernment, to get beyond the 

 physical. I note that he appreciates that Evil is the negation of 

 Good and, in my argument, I have never denied that these nega- 

 tions have the appearance of realities, under our present conditions 

 of existence, and indeed have to be dealt with by us as realities, but 

 they are only manifested as phenomena on the physical plane, 

 through our senses, and therefore thoughts, being limited by Time 

 and Space and therefore dependent upon relativity. It is easy 

 to see that the negatives, Cold, Shadow, Ignorance, are 

 manifestations of the absence of their positives on my list, and it 

 is not difficult also to show that Sin is actually dependent upon the 

 Good, as the shadow depends upon light for its appearance of reality. 

 Moral laws, and responsibility thereto, are dependent upon the exist- 

 ence of Goodness ; the purely animal Homo was free from sin or 

 responsibility until the advent of the Spiritual, when he became 

 aware of Right, and therefore of "Wrong, and became a responsible 

 moral being ; certain acts then became for him Sin that were not 

 sin before; thus the advent of Christ, and in a less degree the 

 coming of every good man into the world, so raised and is raising 

 the level of moral rectitude, that things become sin that were not 

 sin before; St. Paul himself specially recognizes this when he 

 says that without law there is no sin. The Goodness brought 

 into the World by Christ did not create sin but made it manifest and 

 gave it the appearance of a reality under our present conditions of 

 life and thought. 



How well the Mystic St. Paul recognizes that the Invisible is the 

 real and that the visible, namely the phenomena of nature, is only 

 dependent upon time for its manifestation, his words are : — 



"For the things which are seen are temporal but the things which 

 are not seen are Eternal." 



