Christianity as creative myth

of transcendence equally to matter, saying that we must ‘renounce our infantile food of transcendentalist religion and materialistic science’.§

This denial of a transcendent God may be summed up in Mitrinovi¢’s words, “God is spirit, and to the spirit there is nothing transcendental, except those values, those forms, that spirit reality which is not realised by the experiencing spirit. In depth-realisation, in the whole full-realisation, nothing is transcendental. Now in Jesus Christ dwelt the whole Fullness of Godhead bodily. His inwardness knew reality in the absolute sense of fullness, of perfection. His self-presence and self-beholding were the knowledge of Truth. He was Infinite and he knew it, leaving the Christian Revelation behind him as the proof of his divine cognisance.”é

Such is the mythology of the Christ-principle in depth, not depending on a belief in the actuality of some existence beyond human experience or in the historical occurrence of events which one may be unable to verify, but offering a living faith in the significance and future destiny of Humanity which is worthy of the best that mankind has conceived for itself.

The other major and closely related doctrine of Christianity provides a further reason for giving up the atavistic notion of a transcendent God. It is the doctrine of the Trinity. This doctrine affirms that God is not a unitary Being, but a triune reality, and this triunity is not only simultaneous but also successive. It is affirmed in the Athanasian Creed in these words, ‘that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity: neither confounding the Persons: nor dividing the Substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son: and another of the Holy Spirit. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is all one: the glory equal, the Majesty co-eternal. . . . So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. And yet they are not three Gods but one God.’ This is the affirmation of triunity in simultancity. The affirmation of succession is in these words, “The Father is made of none, neither created, but begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, neither made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son, neither made nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. . . . And in this Trinity none is afore, or after the other; none is