106 SKETCHES OF GREAT TROTHS

manifestation. We do not see Him, but we
may see His power at work, His force working
through these lower manifestations.

If there was ever a beginning of the universe,
it is beyond our ken; for beginnings and
endings are terms of limitation, it is impossible
to imagine a beginning of the Absolute, the
All-embracing, seeing that He is omniscient,
omnipresent, omnipotent, and the chapter in
Genesis to which I have referred does not sug-
gest a beginning here. All religions have
expressed and imaged Him as a Trinity, Three in
One and One in Three; fundamentally One
-with three Aspects. All the three Aspects being
concerned with the solar system as well as with
other systems and with the evolution of man.

The Word, Sound, Breath, Impulse—expres-
sion of the Will—is a suggestion put forth to
us of the change which brought about our solar
system and light and darkness were separated,
making thereby a beginning.

" And the evening and the morning were the
first day," is the poetic but pregnant phrase
used in the Bible. Successive impulses of force
sent out from time to time mark " days," vast
periods of time.

The making of these extends over a long period
of ages, and they are made in a certain definite