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dominated by such natural and fundamental thoughts. These

discussions were, of course, complicated from the outset; and

particularly were they complicated by the identification of the man

Jesus with the theological Christ, by materialistic expectations of

his second coming, by materialistic inventions about his

"miraculous" begetting, and by the morbid speculations about

virginity and the like that arose out of such grossness. They were

still further complicated by the idea of the textual inspiration of

the scriptures, which presently swamped thought in textual

interpretation. That swamping came very early in the development of

Christianity. The writer of St. John's gospel appears still to be

thinking with a considerable freedom, but Origen is already

hopelessly in the net of the texts. The writer of St. John's gospel

was a free man, but Origen was a superstitious man. He was

emasculated mentally as well as bodily through his bibliolatry. He

quotes; his predecessor thinks.



But the writer throws out these guesses at the probable intentions

of early Christian thought in passing. His business here is the

definition of a position. The writer's position here in this book

is, firstly, complete Agnosticism in the matter of God the Creator,

and secondly, entire faith in the matter of God the Redeemer. That,

so to speak, is the key of his book. He cannot bring the two ideas

under the same term God. He uses the word God therefore for the God

in our hearts only, and he uses the term the Veiled Being for the