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The Third Lesson: The Creative Will.743
by watching the movements of his form as he presses up against the curtain,
so may we see the Will by watching it as it presses up against the living
curtain of the forms of life. There was a play presented on the American
stage a few years ago, in which one of the scenes pictured the place of
departed spirits according to the Japanese belief. The audience could not
see the actors representing the spirits, but they could see their movements
as they pressed up close to a thin silky curtain stretched across the stage,
and their motions as they moved to and fro behind the curtain were plainly
recognized. The deception was perfect, and the effect was startling. One
almost believed that he saw the forms of formless creatures. And this is what
we may do in viewing the operation of the Creative Will—we may take a
look at the moving form of the Will behind the curtain of the forms of the
manifestation of life. We may see it pressing and urging here, and bending
there—building up here, and changing there—always acting, always moving,
striving, doing, in response to that insatiable urge and craving, and longing
of its inner desire. Let us take a few peeps at the Will moving behind the
curtain!
Commencing with the cases of the forming of the crystals, as spoken of
in our last lesson, we may pass on to plant life. But before doing so, it may
be well for us to take a parting look at the Will manifesting crystal forms.
One of the latest scientific works makes mention of the experiments of a
scientist who has been devoting much attention to the formation of crystals,
and reports that he has noticed that certain crystals of organic compounds,
instead of being built up symmetrically, as is usual with crystals, were
“enantion-morphic,” that is, opposed to each other, in rights and lefts, like
hands or gloves, or shoes, etc. These crystals are never found alone, but
always form in pairs. Can you not see the Will behind the curtain here?
Let us look for the Will in plant-life. Passing rapidly over the wonderful
evidences in the cases of the fertilization of plants by insects, the plant
shaping its blossom so as to admit the entrance of the particular insect that
acts as the carrier of its pollen, think for a moment how the distribution