Current between these two
Principles. Personality is the Absolute Factor. Mathematics
are the Relative Factor, for they merely Measure different
Rates or Scales. They are absolute in this respect. A
particular scale having been selected all its sequences will
follow by an inexorable Law of Order and Proportion; but the
selection of the scale and the change from one scale to
another rests entirely with Personality. What Personality can
not do is to make one Scale produce the results of another,
but it can set aside one scale and substitute another for it.
Hence Personality contains in itself the Universal Scale, or
can either accommodate itself to lower rates of motion
already established, or can raise them to its own rate of
motion. Hence Personality is the grand Ultimate Fact in all
things.

"Different personalities should be regarded as different
degrees of consciousness. They are different degrees of
emergence of The Power that knows Itself."]

XXI

HEPHZIBAH

"Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more
be termed Desolate; but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land
Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married"
(Isaiah lxii, 4). The name Hephzibah--or, as it might be written,
Hafzbah--conveys a very distinct idea to any one who has lived in the
East, and calls up a string of familiar words all containing the same
root _hafz_, which signifies "guarding" or "taking care of," such as
_hafiz_, a protector, _muhafiz_, a custodian, as in the word _muhafiz
daftar_, a head record-keeper; or again, _hifazat_, custody, as
_bahifazat polis_, in custody of the police; or again, _daim-ul-hafz_,
imprisonment for life, and other similar expressions.

All words from this root suggest the idea of "guarding," and therefore
the name Haphzibah at once speaks its own meaning. It is "one who is
guarded," a "protected one." And answering to this there must be some
power which guards, and the name of this power is given in Hosea ii, 16,
where it is called "Ishi." "And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord,
that thou shalt call me Ishi; and thou shalt call me no more Baali."
"Baali" means "lord," "Ishi" means "husband," and between the two there
is a whole world of distinction.

To call the Great Power "Baali" is to live in one world, and to call it
"Ishi" is to live in another. The world that is