160 CREATIVE INVOLUTION 



" Rare and wonderful, but undeniable, is the inner 

 strength and satisfaction which lonely, misunderstood 

 and disappointed men and women experience from spir- 

 itual communion, without even the opportunity of receiv- 

 ing and conferring individualised affection. The craving 

 which cannot be satisfied except by the inpouring of the 

 general will is altogether different from that which needs 

 the love and affection of others. The love for an indi- 

 vidual spirit demands from it recognition, appreciation 

 and attention ; such love must be noticed ; without appro- 

 bation it is cast down. He, on the other hand, who has 

 experienced inspiration from a group-spirit itself 

 super-personal is, as it were, himself rendered super- 

 personal. He has lost himself and, with himself, the 

 craving for love from other personal selves; but he has 

 found himself again in the larger self the Social Over- 

 soul which unifies him with others too closely to admit 

 of the consciousness that they are different identities." 

 STANTON COIT : The Spiritual Nature of Man. 



" The rational implies and in a measure reveals the 

 super-rational. The rational world the potential do- 

 main of science, the field of concept and logic is not 

 the whole sphere of our psychic life. It is but a mid- 

 region, the median zone ; under it lies a sub-rational zone 

 the zone of sense, which we share jointly with the 

 beasts; above it, a world super-rational, which millions 

 have fancied angels share with us. Though it is above 

 and beyond the dominion of concept and logic, the exist- 

 ence of that world is yet betrayed and its nature in part 

 displayed, by rational means: by a process known in 

 mathematics as the method of limits but elsewhere known 

 as the process of idealisation. Operating amid the activ- 

 ities of concept and logic and upon their subject-matter, 



