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urging it on to fulfilment or completion. It can beseen working quietly in all mineral, vegetable andanimal life. This great energy and power has beenworking silently in all forms of life ever since thefirst speck of protoplasm dwelt in the waters thatcovered the earth.The Hungarian scientist and author ErwinLászló in his bestseller Science and the Akashic Field(2004) gives us compelling reasons why this is so,Whatever happens, this power is alwaysthere, seeking expression and movement.It is never static.as well as a possible mechanism through whichall living things are guided or compelled to followtemplates of creation into which they evolve. Itis as if we are born to evolve into copies of thosetemplates of perfection, though no two templatesare ever identical. Rosicrucians call the templatethe soul and the perfection they aspire to as thesoul personality, namely the personality that thesoul adopts whilst incarnated in material reality.There are certain creepers in the gardenwhose tendrils grow along the surface of the soillooking for something, often your best plants, towrap around. If you place a stake in the ground,the creeper will climb up it. And if you move thestake, the creeper will alter its direction towardit. It seems as if a life force urges the creeper tocompletion and realisation, and acting within thebounds of its “template of creation,” the creeperacts only in the way all other creepers of itsspecies do.The same can be seen in animal life, whichranges from the tiny amoeba to the blue whale.We can see this illustrated particularly well in thelife of the swallow. The bird couple build theirnest under the eaves of a village church or, if youare lucky, the ledge of your bedroom window.The birds mate, the female lays her eggs and thecouple patiently take turns in sitting on the eggsuntil the young are hatched. Then, equally aspatiently, they feed them until they are able tofend for themselves. At summer’s end, an innerimpelling life force urges then family southwardover thousands of miles of land and open sea totheir winter home. When spring comes, the samelife force calls the couple back to the same place tobegin another cycle, responding rhythmically tothe laws of their being, acting always within thebounds of their template of creation.If circumstances interfere with theirresponse to this urge, they double their effortsto obey it. If their nest is destroyed, they buildanother without delay. If the nest is robbed ofits eggs, the female will lay more. And if theyoung are threatened, the couple will protect theiroffspring with all their energy, even to the pointof giving their lives to save them. A swallow maybe temporarily caged in a large pen, but whenit hears the mysterious call southward, itwill beat against the bars of the cage untilit escapes or is exhausted. Rob the femaleof her mate and she will pine and possiblydie. This is true of many other creatures andclearly shows the indomitable life urge whichpermeates all living things. There is a templateunique to every living thing, and within itsbounds, creatures of each species are born, evolveand occasionally achieve perfection.Urge for LifeFormer Imperator of the Rosicrucian Order, RalphM Lewis once said: “All living things are compelledto live.” When we consider our own self, the urgeis more compelling still. If we cut a finger, thereis an immediate reaction of the physical organismto restore the injury and create new tissue to bringthe affected part back into the harmonious streamof the rhythm of our being.Whatever happens, this power is alwaysthere, seeking expression and movement. It isnever static. Try and repress the flow of this energy,and it will make its power felt in unpleasant wayssuch as dreams, depression, fantasies, morbidProfessor Erwin LászlóThe Rosicrucian Beacon -- June 20097