the ultimate question at issue is: on which side is the greater force of Personality.
The Infinite Is Greater Than the Limited
The answer to this question is to be found in the Cosmic Creation. We are part of that creation; our personality is part of it. Our personality proceeds by derivation from the All-originating Spirit and therefore, logically, that Spirit must be the Infinite of Personality.
It is true we cannot analyse or fathom the profundities of that Spirit, and from this point of view we may speak of it as "the Unknowable"; and so we may not be able to define what the All-creating Spirit's consciousness of Personality may be to Itself; but unless we entirely deny our derivation from it, must it not be clear that it must contain the infinite potential of all that can ever constitute personality in ourselves? And if this be so, then the growth of our own personality must be proportioned to the extent to which this potential flows into us; and to adopt the receptive mental attitude towards our Creator which will allow of such an inflowing is to take that attitude of Worship which Antichrist denies. Therefore the greater power of Personality is on the side of the worshippers of God.
Then, if this be so, their control over the powers of the unseen is greater than that of the Antichrist, but they do not seek to control those powers in the same way that he does. He knows no personality but his
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