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various phases. So, in our investigation of the World- 

 Energy itself the process is not the merely fanciful one 

 of evolving that object from our own inner conscious- 

 ness, as thoughtless wit, or witless thought, would have 

 it. On the contrary, it is the process of developing our 

 inner consciousness itself so that it shall be progressively 

 more and more in harmony with, by which process we 

 shall come to have a more and more adequate view of, 

 the World-Energy in its completeness as the one primal, 

 eternal FACT. It is the progressive "adjustment of 

 inner relations to outer relations " which constitutes life 

 in the highest sense. 



With this as our object, then, we will set out again 

 from the simplest phase as the logical "first" in this 

 culminating stage of our investigation. That is, we are 

 not to set aside the results of our investigation thus 

 far. Eather, we are to take those results, henceforth, 

 as so much that is proven, and which may therefore be 

 assumed as assured data from which further conclusions 

 may be legitimately drawn. 



And the central result we have thus far reached is, let 

 us repeat, the conception of the total universe as the 

 absolutely indivisible totality of existence, and yet, as 

 presenting two necessary and complementary aspects. 

 Regarded concretely, it is the World-Energy as self- 

 active 'that is, it is infinite activity, and at the same 

 time infinite receptivity. It is infinite Cause and at 

 the same time infinite Effect. It is at once Creator and 

 creation. 



a . UNITY OF THE WORLD-ENERGY. 



The phase which here presents itself with special 

 impressiveness, is that of the absolute unity of the 



