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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" if you wish, but, to those who know it, it is a Will--an active, living
Will, in full operation and power, pressing forward toward the manifestation of objective life.
The Creative Will seems to be filled with a strong Desire to manifest. It longs to express itself, and to give
birth to forms of activity. Desire lies under and in all forms of its manifestations. The ever present Desire of
the Creative Will causes lower forms to be succeeded by higher forms--and is the moving cause of
evolution--it is the Evolutionary Urge itself, which ever cries to its manifestations, "Move on; move
upward."
In the Hindu classic, the "Mahabarata," Brahma created the most beautiful female being ever known, and
called her Tillotama. He presented her in turn to all the gods, in order to witness their wonder and admiration.
Siva's desire to behold her was so great that it developed in him four faces, in succession, as she made the tour
of the assembly; and Indra's longing was so intense that his body became all eyes. In this myth may be seen
exemplified the effect of Desire and Will in the forms of life, function and shape--all following Desire and
Need, as in the case of the long neck of the giraffe which enables him to reach for the high branches of the
trees in his native land; and in the long neck and high legs of the fisher birds, the crane, stork, ibis, etc.
The Creative Will finds within itself a desire to create suns, and they are formed. It desired planets to revolve
around the suns, and they were thrown off in obedience to the law. It desired plant life, and plant life
appeared, working from higher to lower form. Then came animal life, from nomad to man. Some of the
animal forms yielded to the desire to fly, and wings appeared gradually, and we called it bird-life. Some felt a
desire to burrow in the ground, and lo! came the moles, gophers, etc. It wanted a thinking creature, and Man
with his wonderful brain was evolved. Evolution is more than a mere survival of the fittest; natural selection,
etc. Although it uses these laws as tools and instruments, still back of them is that insistent urge--that
ever-impelling desire--that ever-active Creative Will. Lamark was nearer right than Darwin when he
claimed that Desire was back of it all, and preceded function and form. Desire wanted form and function, and
produced them by the activity of the Creative Will.
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This Creative Will acts like a living force--and so it is indeed--but it does not act as a reasoning, intellectual
Something, in one sense--instead it manifests rather the "feeling," wanting, longing, instinctive phase of
mind, akin to those "feelings" and resulting actions that we find within our natures. The Will acts on the
Instinctive Plane.
Evolution shows us Life constantly pressing forward toward higher and still higher forms of expression. The
urge is constantly upward and onward. It is true that some species sink out of sight their work in the world
having been done, but they are succeeded by other species more in harmony with their environment and the
needs of their times. Some races of men decay, but others build on their foundations, and reach still greater
heights.
The Creative Will is something different from Reason or Intellect. But it underlies these. In the lower forms of
life, in which mind is in but small evidence, the Will is in active operation, manifesting in Instinct and
Automatic Life Action, so called. It does not depend upon brains for manifestation--for these lowly forms of
life have no brains--but is in operation through every part of the body of the living thing.
Evidences of the existence of the Creative Will acting independently of the brains of animal and plant life may
be had in overwhelming quantity if we will but examine the life action in the lower forms of life.
The testimony of the investigators along the lines of the Evolutionary school of thought, show us that the Life
Principle was in active operation in lowly animal and plant life millions of years before brains capable of
manifesting Thought were produced. Haekel informs us that during more than half of the enormous time that
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