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The Third Lesson: The Creative Will.749
“As life advances and the young amphibian ranges the waters, the terror of his
insect contemporaries, not only are the nutritious particles supplied by its prey
(by the addition of which to its frame growth takes place) laid down, each in its
proper spot, and in due proportion to the rest, as to reproduce the form, the color,
and the size, characteristic of the parental stock; but even the wonderful powers
of reproducing lost parts possessed by these animals are controlled by the same
governing tendency. Cut off the legs, the tail, the jaws, separately or all together, and
as Spallanzani showed long ago, these parts not only grow again, but the new limb
is formed on the same type as those which were lost. The new jaw, or leg, is a newt’s,
and never by any accident more like that of a frog’s.”
In this passage from Huxley one may see the actual working of the
Creative Will of the Universe,—moving behind the curtain—and a very thin
curtain at that. And this wonderful work is going on all around us, all the
time. Miracles are being accomplished every second—they are so common
that we fail to regard them.
And in our bodies is the Will at work? Most certainly. What built you
up from single cell to maturity? Did you do it with your intellect? Has not
every bit of it been done without your conscious knowledge? It is only
when things go wrong, owing to the violation of some law, that you become
aware of your internal organs. And, yet, stomach and liver, and heart and
the rest have been performing their work steadily—working away day and
night, building up, repairing, nourishing, growing you into a man or woman,
and keeping you sound and strong. Are you doing this with your reason
or with your personal will? No, it is the great Creative Will of the Universe,
Universe,—the expression of the purpose and power of the One, working
in and through you. It is the One Life manifesting in you through its Creative
Will.
And not only is this all. The Creative Will is all around us in every force,
energy and principle. The force that we call mental power is the principle
of the Will directed by our individual minds. In this statement we have a