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The Third Lesson: The Creative Will.739
Look where we will, on living forms, and we may begin to recognize
the presence of a certain creative energy at work—building up; moulding,
directing; tearing down; replacing, etc.—always active in its efforts to
create, preserve and conserve life. This visible creative energy is what
the Yogi Philosophy calls “the Creative Will,” and which forms the subject
of this lesson. The Creative Will is that striving, longing, pressing forward,
unfolding, progressing evolutionary effort, that all thoughtful people see
in operation in all forms of life—throughout all Nature. From the lowest to
the highest forms of life, the Effort, Energy, Pressure, may be recognized in
action, creating, preserving, nourishing, and improving its forms. It is that
Something that we recognize when we speak of “Nature’s Forces” at work
in plant growth and animal functioning. If you will but keep the word and
idea—“Nature”—before you, you will be able to more clearly form the
mental concept of the Creative Will. The Creative Will is that which you
have been calling “Nature at Work” in the growth of the plant; the sprouting
of the seed; the curling and reaching of the tendril; the fertilization of the
blossoms, etc. You have seen this Will at work, if you have watched growing
things.
We call this energy “the Creative Will,” because it is the objective
manifestation of the Creative Energy of the Absolute—Its visible Will
manifested in the direction of physical life. It is as much Will in action, as
the Will that causes your arm to move in response to its power. It is no mere
chance thing, or mechanical law—it is life action in operation.
This Creative Will not only causes movement in completed life, but all
movement and action in life independent of the personal will of its individual
forms. All the phenomena of the so-called Unconscious belong to it. It
causes the body to grow; attends to the details of nourishment, assimilation,
digestion, elimination, and all of the rest. It builds up bodies, organs, and
parts, and keeps them in operation and function.
The Creative Will is directed to the outward expression of Life—to the
objectification of Life. You may call this energy the “Universal Life Energy”