12% Evolution of Life and Form. 



Another great principle is the double and parallel 

 action of Ishvara and of the evolving Self, f shvara 

 is present in the Self of man that is formed within 

 Him. Every evolutionary impulse in the earliest 

 stages comes directly from the life of fshvara, 

 and as He moulds the form without, He gradually 

 strengthens the centre that He is building up 

 within. His object is to make that centre the 

 image of Himself, self-sustaining; but enormous 

 reaches of time are needed for the building ; as He 

 shapes the forms, He builds the centre ; and as He 

 builds that centre, and it becomes more and more 

 active, answering to the vibrations that He trans- 

 mits to it from the outer world, it begins to take 

 on a little action of its own and to send out vibra- 

 tions, as we may say, on its own account. As this 

 double action goes on within the form, more and 

 more does that evolving centre begin to control the 

 form within which it is developed. As this power 

 of control develops and increases, He withdraws 

 more and more of His directive energy as fshvara; 

 the energy drawn from Him is now beginning to 

 work ^z&m-independently in the separated centre 

 that He has been building, until at last that centre 

 reflects Himself, and is able to be self-existent by 

 the very life that it has drawn from Him. If this 

 conception be a little abstract, let me give it again 



