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Nature,” just mentioned. This Creative Will is not Schopenhauer’s Will-to-
Live. It is not a Thing-in-itself, but a vehicle or instrument of the Absolute. It
is an emanation of the mind of the Absolute—a manifestation in action of its
Will—a mental product rather than a physical, and, of course, saturated with
the life-energy of its projector.
This Creative Will is not a mere blind, mechanical energy or force—it is far
more than this. We can explain it only by referring you to the manifestation
of the Will in yourself. You wish to move your arm, and it moves. The
immediate force may seem to be a mechanical force, but what is back of
that force—what is the essence of the force? The Will! All manifestations of
energy—all the causes of motion—all forces—are forms of the action of the
Will of the One—the Creative Will—acting under natural laws established
by the One, ever moving, acting, forcing, urging, driving, leading. We do
not mean that every little act is a thought of the moment on the part of
the Absolute, and a reaching out of the Will in obedience to that thought.
On the contrary, we mean that the One set the Will into operation as a
whole, conceiving of laws and limitations in its action, the Will constantly
operating in obedience to that conception, the results manifesting in what
we call natural law; natural forces, etc. Besides this, the Absolute is believed
to manifest its Will specially upon occasions; and moreover permits its Will
to be applied and used by the individual wills of individual Egos, under the
general Law and laws, and plan of the One.
But you must not suppose that the Will is manifested only in the form of
mechanical forces, cohesion, chemical attraction, electricity, gravitation, etc.
It does more than this. It is in full operation in all forms of life, and living
things. It is present everywhere. Back of all forms of movement and action,
we find a moving cause—usually a Pressure. This is true of that which we
have been calling mechanical forces, and of all forms of that which we call
Life Energy. Now, note this, this great Pressure that you will observe in all
Life Action, is the Creative Will—the Will Principle of the One—bending
toward the carrying out of the Great Plan of Life.