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right and wrong for him have no existence ; hunger 

 and thirst, sexnal desire, and the need for sleep, 

 these are the things that make up his life and that 

 move his dawning consciousness ; these only are 

 strong enough to stir it into activity ; it cannot yet 

 initiate activity from within. But as these play 

 upon it, life after life, birth after birth, century after 

 century, in successive incarnations of this germinal 

 but growing life, as these vibrations continually 

 arouse, awaken the life of the intelligence, which is 

 the third aspect of the Self, these repeated vibra- 

 tions, repeated over and over and over again a 

 thousand times, by that very repetition bring about 

 an internal tendency to repeat it again without a 

 fresh stimulus from outside ; and we find in the next 

 stage of the evolution of intelligence, still in the 

 savage, that the savage does not wait for hunger 

 in order to search for food, but that the memory 

 of hunger and the memory of food are enough to 

 send him out, before the hunger strikes him, 

 in search of the meal that to-morrow he will re- 

 quire to satisfy the needs of the body. But what 

 a change is there if we consider it, small as it is 

 in appearance. The man is no longer stimulated 

 by an outer impulse coming from the animal 

 nature; he is stimulated by a mental image, a 

 connected picture of the painful state of the body 



