of man concerning the Divine, because the Divine has to be apprehended through the Divine within us.  “All opposition to the idea of the Divine personality is ultimately explained by the fact that an energetic Life-process is wanting—­a Life-process which entertains the question not so much from without as from within.  Whenever such a Life-process is found, there is simultaneously found, often in overt contradiction to the formal doctrinal statement, an element of such a personal character of God."[56] But this immanent aspect of the idea of God is accompanied by a transcendent aspect.  We have noticed already that the very nature of the Ought included a transcendent and objective aspect.[57] The same fact becomes evident in [p.161] religious experience.  The two poles—­immanence and transcendence—­are complementary.  The former shows that something of the Divine nature has been implanted within human nature; the latter shows that more is in existence than we have already possessed.  Spiritual norms never decrease but increase in splendour the nearer man is to their attainment.  Something is here discovered which is not found in the world; it is a kind of transcendent summit, a mysterious sublimity.  And an approach towards this summit produces experiences never to be possessed in any other kind of way.  As Eucken himself puts it:  “If this sublimity superior to the world secures an abode in the soul, and, indeed, becomes the inmost and most intimate part of our being, and enables us to participate in the self-subsistence of infinity, it opens up within us a fathomless depth, in which the existence that lies nearest to our hands is swallowed up, and it makes us a problem to ourselves—­a problem which transforms the whole of life—­whilst it enables us to understand and to handle what at the outset appeared to be its whole life as a mere phase and appearance.  Thus it is the same religion which opens out from God to man and which simultaneously opens itself out in man himself and becomes a great mystery to him.  Therefore, in the idea of God the intimate and the ultimate must both be present if religion is to reach its full development and to [p.162] avoid the dangers which everywhere threaten it."[58] Both these aspects interlace in one Life-process; the unity is present in the manifold, and the ultimate present in the intimate.

According to Eucken, it is out of such an experience as we have noticed that the idea of immortality becomes a firm belief and faith within the soul.  The idea cannot be proved scientifically, simply because its spiritual content is greater than anything which is below it.  The whole proof lies within the experience itself at this, its highest summit.  “The Infinite Power and Love that has grounded a new spontaneous nature in man, over against a dark and hostile world, will conserve such a new nature and its spiritual nucleus, and shelter it against all perils and assaults, so that life as the bearer of