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Presentment. Many of the transmutations which 

 occur in my Presentment I recognise as attributable 

 to my own volitional activity operating upon my 

 energetic organism, and in my own activity there is 

 thus suggested to me a source of phenomena lying 

 beyond these phenomena themselves. A transmuta- 

 tion initiated in my brain is a pure idea. The key 

 which suggests to me the real Avoiid is the occur- 

 rence of transmutations ascribable to my activity 

 operating beyond the sphere which constitutes my 

 Presentment. 



It is in this way that I originally discover the real 

 energetic substratum to the phenomenal world of my 

 Presentment. I learn from the transmutations to 

 infer the agency and operation of the underlying 

 energy, and thus gradually construct my whole 

 systematic conception of the real world in which I 

 live and move and have my being. 



This view of my activity and of the consequences 

 of my relation as Will to the energetic system re- 

 presented by my organism, including the portion 

 thereof related to my intelligence, supplies us there- 

 fore with a key to the inevitable reference of thoughts 

 to things. 



I distinguish in my active experience a clear 

 difference between wishing and willing, and further 

 between willing and effective action. My Power 



