A MAP OF LIFE development before he can generate a son. But in an infinite being, to whom time is not, there is no such requirement. God the Father eternally generates God the Son, who is thus co-eternal and, as a consequence of likeness in nature where the nature is infinite, co-equal. The term Word — the Word of the Mind, which is Thought — brings us to the same truth and in a way to a greater point of understanding. The First Person, as thinker, thinks. Now that which is produced by the act of thinking, what we call the “term” of the act, is a thought. With men, the thought is more or less adequate to the object they are thinking about. But with God, whose inteliigence is infinite, the thought is absolutely adequate to the object. In this instance God’s thought is of Himself, and since it is absolutely adequate, it is the Perfect Image of Himself, and so living, coeternal, equal in all perfections: a Person. Thus, even more clearly than Sonship, this notion of the Word shows the Second Person as the perfect image of the First: shows also how there is no new nature produced, for there is no more complete oneness of nature than that which exists between the Thinker and the Thought. Thus we have the First Person and the Second proceeding from the First by way of generation. But between Father and Son (or between Thinker and Thought) there is Love. Here we must proceed with the greatest care. In our human experience 86