the aatman concept there are involved at all times
　　　　 two vital  components  or aspects. On the one side
　　　　 there  is the "bifurcated self," which presents  a
　　　　 situation

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　　   incompatible, but  it would  be worth  our  while  to
　　   examine them closely.  I am quite mindful of the fact
　　   that the concept  of an actual  entity  is really the
　　   alpha  and  omega  of  Whiteheadianism,  so  that  to
　　   discuss it means at once to implicate the rest of the
　　   concepts   abounding   in  this  system  of  thought.
　　   Curiously  enough, the  same  is  also  true  of  the
　　   doctrine  of anaatman.  In this respect  both systems
　　   are on common ground, and both strictly adhere to the
　　   naturalistic rule or creed of the self-sufficiency of
　　   the nature  of things.  The two concepts  in question
　　   will then be treated as a framework  within which the
　　   relevances of the respective complementary  doctrines
　　   will be exhibited.

　　   ACTUAL ENTITY

　　   Whitehead was a man of rare vision. He was profoundly
　　   religious.  In  one  of  his  more  famous  religious
　　   statements, he remarked: "I hazard the prophecy  that
　　   that religion  will conquer which can render clear to
　　   popular   understanding　　 some   eternal   greatness
　　   incarnate  in the  passage  of temporal  fact."(3) He
　　   made this remark quite late in his life, but the idea
　　   seems to have haunted him for a long time. Perhaps it
　　   is not amiss  to say that  the deep  concern  for the
　　   temporal  fact and what it entails had compelled  him
　　   to reexamine  or reappraise  the  whole  function  of
　　   philosophy.   Whether   he   succeeded   finally   in
　　   presenting his case to popular understanding  remains
　　   an  open   question,  although   the   challenge   is
　　   constantly present.
　　　　 We  are  easily  attracted   to  the  rational  and
　　   abstractive  (symbolic) processes, thinking  that one
　　   could continue  the processes  without  relating  the
　　   abstracted  elements  to  the  immediacy  of concrete
　　   events. Whitehead was cognizant of the limitations of
　　   logic, language, and the whole  symbolic  process  in
　　   man.  But, in the ultimate sense, he says there is no
　　   "mere   awareness,  mere   private   sensation,  mere
　　   emotion,  mere   purpose,   mere   appearance,   mere
　　   causation."(4)