the whole personality that constitutes belief in "the Son", or the principle of spiritual sonship, which brings us out of bondage into the liberty of knowledge and power.

But the reader who is still within the trammels of the traditional exegesis will probably say, if this be so, what is meant by such texts as that contained in the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, "He was wounded for our transgressions", etc.? and the answer is that the personality here spoken of is still the same typical man --- the Divine Son --- who is described by Isaiah as "the Wonderful Child", only seen from another point of view. This is the description of him in his prenatal stage, that is, before his manifestation as the Son whose name is Wonderful, Counsellor, etc.

Spirit Ever-conscious?

And this brings us to the consideration of a very recondite subject, the question whether "Spirit" ever does pass into unconsciousness. Whether from the physiological or the psychological side, there is important evidence tending to the conclusion that "Spirit" is never in a condition of unconsciousness; and if this is the case with that concentration of pure Spirit which is the individualised I AM in each of us, how can we conceive its suffering from those transgressions of the Law of our own being which result in all the misery, pain, and death that the world has witnessed?

If the Spirit in us is the very Impersonation [i.e. individualised in a person; no suggestion of fraud is intended! --- Ed.] of the Law of Life, what woundings, what bruisings it must