From the 'Unconscious to the Conscious 



artist in this case, even if it is not directed by a precise 

 effort of his will, is nevertheless in great measure ordered 

 and regularised; concentrated, so to speak. There will, 

 however, still be room, side by side with magnificent 

 realisations, for errors, exaggerations, and omissions, 

 and trials of effect which bear no fruit. And further, 

 surrounding influences will necessitate long subcon- 

 sciousness brooding over new works which will come 

 to realisation. His work will be intermittent and 

 unequal. 



It is the same in Nature after the first degree of 

 conscious realisation. Her creations are no longer 

 exuberant and anarchic. The intermittent appearance of 

 chief species and instincts are in conformity with environ- 

 ing necessities and vital needs, they obey the purpose 

 acquired. But as in the work of the artist, side by 

 side with the realisations which genius bring to perfec- 

 tion, there will be errors, imperfections, omissions, 

 exaggerations, and gropings. . . . 



Case 3. Lastly let the artist control his productions, 

 and let them be perfectly conformed to the aesthetic 

 sense, to high moral and intellectual purpose, to superior 

 knowledge, to all that makes genius luminous, creative, 

 and conscious. 



Such a one does not yet exist. In the same way 

 this ideal phase is not yet realised in Nature. 



Conscious genius and the higher creation truly 

 penetrated by the divine, will be the result of future 

 evolution when the unconscious shall have been absorbed 

 into the conscious. It will bring into realisation forms 

 of life rigorously in conformity with the higher law, at 

 last released from restrictions and precise in aim; 

 it will avoid all gropings, errors, and evil; it will know 

 all and accomplish all. 



In fine, collective evolution, like individual evolu- 

 tion, may be summed up in the formula transition 

 from the unconscious to the conscious. 



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