CHAPTER I 



THE TRANSITION FROM THE UNCONSCIOUS TO THE 

 CONSCIOUS IN THE UNIVERSE 



I. THE UNIVERSE CONCEIVED OF AS AN ESSENTIAL 



DYNAMO-PSYCHISM AND AS REPRESENTATION 



WE can now, by a wide induction, refer back to the 

 Universe what we know of the individual; for what is 

 demonstrated for the individual the microcosm cannot 

 but appear true for the universe the macrocosm. 



Like the individual, the universe should be conceived 

 of as a temporary representation and an essential and 

 real dynamo-psychism. 



Just as the individual organism is but an ideoplastic 

 product of his essential dynamo-psychism, so the universe 

 appears as a vast materialisation of the creative principle. 



Finally, like the individual, the universe passes by 

 evolution through the fact of experiences acquired by 

 and in representations, from unconsciousness to con- 

 sciousness. 



2. EVOLUTION IS THE ACQUISITION OF CONSCIOUSNESS 



Let us consider the universe under this aspect: 

 In the livingbeingwehave seen the original and creative 

 unconscious dynamo-psychism enriched and enlightened, 

 so to speak, by conscious acquisitions. We have noted 

 the progressive and unlimited tendency to unification, 

 to harmonious fusion of unconsciousness with conscious- 

 ness, and have been able to infer that the multitude of 



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