From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



It is manifest as a blind impulse and an unconscious 

 effort in all inorganic nature and in all the primary 

 forces whose laws it is the task of physics and 

 chemistry to seek out. Millions of phenomena, 

 show each of these laws as altogether similar and 

 regular, bearing no trace of any individual character/ 



It may be admitted that wherever a rudiment of 

 consciousness appears in the primitive unconscious, 

 individualisation has begun. This rudiment of con- 

 sciousness is at first extremely minute and inappreciable. 

 It existed, however, doubtless, as soon as the universe 

 showed a trace of organisation sooner, perhaps, than 

 Schopenhauer thought. 



However this may be, once this rudiment of con- 

 sciousness has been acquired, it will be indelible, and 

 will henceforward continue to increase without limit. 



Thus are constituted individual ' monads ' by rudi- 

 mentary accessions of consciousness. This old term 

 ' monad ' may be kept, restricting it to the general 

 meaning of a dynamo-psychic individuality a part of 

 the universal creative dynamo-psychism ; having, like 

 it, all potentialities of realisation and the characteristic of 

 divine permanence. 



The objectification of these monads, and their subse- 

 quent evolution, are the resultant of the continuous 

 effort of the unconscious dynamo-psychism in its tendency 

 towards consciousness an effort which necessitates an 

 immense total of sensations and acquisitions. 



From this continual work of analysis and acquisition 

 there result groups of monads which constitute the whole 

 organised representation of the universe. 



In the universality of things there are therefore only 

 everlasting monads, and temporary groupings of them 

 in ephemeral ' representations/ 



That which is called the formation of a living being, 

 would thus be only the complex association and formation 



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