150 CREATIVE INVOLUTION 



out regard to the object of his love, as we are wont 

 to say he is a good thinker without concern of the ob- 

 ject of his thought. The mind is the generator of 

 a light-force which obeys the same laws as other 

 wave-promulgated forces. Any woman is a radiant 

 being for the man whose attention is focused upon 

 her to the degree of luminosity. To be sure, the 

 force to attend carries with it the power to select, 

 but it carries something more, and that is the power 

 to hold the vision which prompted the selection. 



" If beyond earthly wont, the flame of love 

 Illume me, so that I overcome thy power 

 Of vision, marvel not : . . . I well discern, 

 How in thine intellect already shines 

 The light eternal, which to view alone 

 Ne'er fails to kindle love." 



If attention throws a new light on love, love fur- 

 nishes new insights for the functioning of attention. 

 It is quite possible that thought and inspiration are 

 as dependent upon a sexual interchange for their in- 

 ception as other forms of life. We are learning the 

 dual nature of all evolving force. Although the 

 great line of cleavage made by sex starts on the phys- 

 ical plane, it by no means ends there. Man and 

 woman are quite as definitely separated by it in the 

 psychical realm. Hence the need of the exchange of 

 life-essences on the intellectual as well as the physical 

 level of being. I wonder that it has never occurred 



