NATURE'S ORIGIN. -Q 



Back of every human consciousness lies 

 more or less distinctly the Great Totality 

 which we have already appealed to under the 

 name of the Universe, the All. This concept 

 is verily the elemental one, beyond which 

 there is none other ; we might call it by anal- 

 ogy the primordial mind-stuff out of which 

 every Self arises and becomes an individual. 

 Of this origin the latter always carries the 

 mark or impress, and in its deepest moments 

 drops back into its genetic source which is 

 the Universe, whence arises man's thought as 

 universal, that is, bearing the stamp of the 

 Universe. When the mind becomes truly cre- 

 ative, it re-enacts the creative act of the All, 

 it returns to and shares in the very source 

 and genesis of its own being. Such is the 

 deepest significance of man's universality, 

 though he be merely this finite individual. 



Now, this Universe of ours, with its inti- 

 mate relation to ourselves has long excited 

 the interest of the profound sages of the race, 

 as well as of the humbler run of people. Its 

 primal division into God, Nature, and Man, 

 is familiar, even popular. But the further 

 reflection is not so well known, that these 

 three form a process, yea, a psychical process, 

 which must therefore,be prototypal of all other 

 processes, being the universal one, just that 

 of the Universe itself, and creative of the 



