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ultimate mysteries of the universe, and he declares that we do not

know and perhaps cannot know in any comprehensible terms the

relation of the Veiled Being to that living reality in our lives who

is, in his terminology, the true God. Speaking from the point of

view of practical religion, he is restricting and defining the word

God, as meaning only the personal God of mankind, he is restricting

it so as to exclude all cosmogony and ideas of providence from our

religious thought and leave nothing but the essentials of the

religious life.



Many people, whom one would class as rather liberal Christians of an

Arian or Arminian complexion, may find the larger part of this book

acceptable to them if they will read "the Christ God" where the

writer has written "God." They will then differ from him upon

little more than the question whether there is an essential identity

in aim and quality between the Christ God and the Veiled Being, who

answer to their Creator God. This the orthodox post Nicaean

Christians assert, and many pre-Nicaeans and many heretics (as the

Cathars) contradicted with its exact contrary. The Cathars,

Paulicians, Albigenses and so on held, with the Manichaeans, that

the God of Nature, God the Father, was evil. The Christ God was his

antagonist. This was the idea of the poet Shelley. And passing

beyond Christian theology altogether a clue can still be found to

many problems in comparative theology in this distinction between

the Being of Nature (cf. Kant's "starry vault above") and the God