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“ Creation.” He is conditioned, and only from a conditioned 
living thing can any conditioned living thing proceed. — This is 
the Principle of Continuity . 
It is not distinctly said (though it must he implied) that the 
Eternal Conditioned Son is also Unconditioned (p. 177), or 
else that the Eternal Father, the Unconditioned, is also Con- 
ditioned ; for how else could He communicate with the Son, 
or the Son with Him ? (This is nearly Philo’s view.)* 
They say that science forbids our passing over from the con- 
ditioned to the unconditioned. t Is there no communion be- 
tween the Divine Father and the Son? The Son of God in 
the previous world, in some way, became conditioned, 
Ghost 6 Ae°e- and (as conditioned) was “ Creator ot Energy ” ; 
Sective th nfe SU of energy having “the Protean power of passing from 
the universe. oue c h an g e to another.” The Holy Ghost also must 
have been conditioned ; and so He may be Giver of Life. The 
Son thus developed the “ energy ” or objective element ; the 
Holy Ghost developed the Life, which is the subjective element 
of the Universe. 
32. But what is the position of Life in the Universe? It 
But what is seems an antecedent. We find that the forces and 
Life? qualities of the Visible Universe cannot create life. 
Life always proceeds from life. It proceeds originally then 
from the invisible to the visible. It may denote (whatever it 
be in itself) “ a peculiarity of material structure ” (p. 180), which 
may be molecular (p. 182); but it must not be supposed to 
imply Will (p. 182). 
Beaching the visible, it rises amidst the lowest material of 
the Universe (p. 180). The molecules themselves have there 
been already developed as vortex-rings (p. 171). The vortex- 
rings are from a finer and more subtle something which we “ may 
yet agree to call the Invisible Universe.” — The visible Universe 
goes on into the invisible — nor can we say where the one 
ends and the other begins. 
Life, however, when we thus possess it, does not create 
i ife does not energy any more than energy creates life. What 
create energy, then does it do in the Universe? 
An illustration has been suggested from mechanics, which 
illustration our au ^ 10rs decline (p. 181). A force, acting at 
from mecha- right angles to the direction in which a body is 
mcs ' moving, deflects it, without exerting any power or 
energy. Such, e.g., may be the action of man’s will. It may 
add nothing to the tori'ent, but turns circumstances to the 
* See also Renan’s Dialogues ; and Soullier’s Logos. 
f But see St. Matthew xi. 27. 
