This is the philosophy, beautifully and movingly written, of a man whose life has always been an inward and personal one, devoted to contemplation and its fruits. The basic theme is of unity through duality. It is a book rich in content, deep in purpose, profound in its vision, broad in its sympathies, illuminating and heartening. The book is addressed to someone, friend or relative, who has lost their belief in the human future. It is a summing up of the author's philosophy of life, an attempt to define and express his faith in something greater than man, without which all beliefs must sooner or later crumble. He takes us first through "the Broken World". Infant joy is soon clouded: as the infant awakens to duality, emerging from the heaven of unconsciousness to the world of consciousness, he awakens also to tension, conflict and a sense of guilt. How, then, is he again to achieve unity within himself between the instinctive soul and the awakening intelligence? Through faith, is Mr. Fausset's answer, and in his next chapters he analyses the nature of faith. Part Il, "The Divine Image", is a meditation on the nature of God. The true faith, Mr. Fausset has already said, is not a monopoly of any Church or creed. It is the truth eternally self-evident which the great seers have revealed down the ages, each in his own way. He finds the "one God of Jewish monotheism ... more crudely conceived as a superhuman potentate devoid of metaphysical subtleties" than the Eastern concepts of the Ultimate, and in particular he deplores the absence of the female component in the Jewish and Christian concept of God. "Creation, as we know it, requires the union of male and female, and there is no reason to suppose that it is otherwise in the creation of a Cosmos, or that the feminine is inferior to or less essentially divine than the male."