In us or through us the Primal Mind will have con-
templated and enjoyed its own works and will con-
tinue to do so as long as human life endures on this
planet. It will have achieved the miracle of the In-
carnation, and have tasted the sweet and the bitter,
the victories and the defeats of evolution. The leg-
end of the birth and life of Jesus is but this ever-
present naturalism written large with parable and
miracle on the pages of our religious history. In the
lives of each of us the supreme reality comes down
to earth and takes on the human form and suffers
all the struggles and pains and humiliations of mor-
tal, finite life. Even the Christian theory of the vi-
carious atonement is not without its basis of natu-
ralism. Men, through disease and ignorance and
half knowledge, store up an experience that saves
future generations from suffering and failure. We
win victories for our descendants, and bring the
kingdom nearer for them by the devils and evil
spirits we overcome.

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