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into homogeneous energy. It is a complete synthesis rather than 
a mechanical equilibrium. 
14. Will is the energy so liberated. 
15. Self-consciousness is the result of resistance encountered 
by this energy growing out of disparity between the normal 
modes of subjective energy and the results of the new synthesis, 
converting it anew into force and reflecting it. Psychologically, 
that is to say, self-consciousness is the reaction of the will in 
its expression upon the empirical ego. 
16. Will is pure spontaneity in the form proper to the indi- 
vidual nature and is only indirectly in consciousness. As pure 
energy it is free (that is, to express the real being or character of 
the individual), but in its expression as force it is conditioned like 
any other force. What in psychology is termed will is a com- 
plex consisting of a variety of conscious elements, — feelings, 
judgments, etc., — and sundry impulses with their trains of reflex 
feeling. It does not therefore obey any simple law. 
17. The soul of a finite being is the totality of the energy 
involved in a conscious being. Its activity is not, as such, con- 
scious. The mind — the souk’ of psychology — is the sum of the 
conscious manifestations. It is not correct to state that one mental 
state is evolved out of the preceding, for one act of consciousness 
has no direct connection with any other. Yet it is true that the 
mental processes give us the only clue to the sequence of soul 
processes. The conscious states are epiphenomena due to the 
constant becoming between energy and force. 
18. Removal of all resistance would destroy all consciousness : 
Nirvana. Perfect equilibrium would make all energy con- 
scious, as there would be a rhythmical alternation between energy 
and force : Panconsciousness. A soul can be immortal only in a 
resistant (responsive) medium: Heaven. 
19. The greater the complexity of the impinging forces, equi- 
librium being preserved, the greater the psychical activity. 
20. Forms of complexity tending to perpetuate the activity 
and preserve the equilibrium are pleasurable; the reverse are 
painful. 
21. Personality is the unit of consciousness. Consciousness 
can never seem discontinuous, because that would imply a second 
consciousness ad interim. 
22. We create the objective world in accordance with forms 
