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Freud as a psychotherapeutist through observa-tion of medical cases to a " subject beyond time "as a " deepest subconsciousness " in which theroots of logic and of ethics lie. 1

No matter. " Name is sound and smokeveiling the glow of heaven." The better part issilence and it is just in this silence that God isaudible : He speaks in the depths of the soul andsounds through the history of the world. He isthe " eternal Yes " of the Spiritual Man as opposedto the " eternal No " of the Old Adam.

Loud and manifold are the voices which soundthis No in our days when all traditional formsdecay. But the crescendo undertone of a Yesrings in the confused soul of the age. The denierasks woefully after the significance and purposeof his life.

I am reminded of a comparison for which Ihave to thank my unforgettable friend, the cancerspecialist, Professor Edwin Goldmann , who said :Cancer is a condition in which the cell abandonsits function as part of the whole, and developshypertrophically at the expense of the whole—in fact a " cell mutiny." In a similar way the manwho denies God , denies his relationship to theuniverse and thereby destroys those socialcommunities which reproduce on a small scale theuniversal order. In both cases the member cutsitself off from the whole, though it is only capableof living as an organ of the whole.

From this point of view, the Early Quakers'

1 Dr. Oskar Kohnstamm, Erscheinungsformen der Seele,Munchen, 1927, S. 515.

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