of all who do not offer to God the sincere worship of trust in the Divine Love, Wisdom, and Power. I use the name Antichrist as that of a class, and one which seems likely to be widespread before long, though this in no way excludes the possibility of some phenomenally powerful leader of this class attaining to a pre-eminence which will make him the typical manifestation of the principal of self-deification.

Antichrist, whether as class or as individual, has attained to the recognition of a great universal principle which I have endeavoured to set forth in this and other books: the principle of the introduction of "the Personal Factor" into the realm of unseen causes. He has laid hold of a great truth.

Hubris

All progress beyond the merely generic working of the Law of Averages is to be made by the introduction of the Personal Factor; but the mistake which Antichrist makes is that he cannot see any personality but his own. He sees the Soul of Nature and the power of its responsiveness to the Personal elements in the mind of man, and he sees no further. Therefore, after his own fashion, he recognises a spiritual power of mere forces, but he does not recognise beyond this the presence of "the God of gods" (Dan. 11:36-38). Logically, therefore, he becomes to himself the Person. He rightly says that the Law of Cause and Effect is Universal and that