Thomas Troward - The Creative Process in the Individual

mechanical side the primordial principle of the Unity including the Duality

in itself.

But the Spirit wants something more than mechanical motion, something more

alive than the preliminary Rota, and so the first step toward

individualized consciousness meets us in plant life. Then on the principle

that each successive stage affords the platform for a further outlook,

plant life is followed by animal life, and this by the Human order in which

the liberty of selecting its own conditions is immensely extended. In this

way the Spirit's expression of itself has now reached the point where its

polar complementary, or Reciprocal, manifests as Intellectual Man--thus

constituting the Fourth great stage of Spirit's Self-recognition. But the

Creative Process cannot stop here, for, as we have seen, its root in the

Self-contemplation of Spirit renders it of necessity an Infinite

Progression. So it is no use asking what is its ultimate, for it has no

ultimate--its word is "Excelsior"--ever Life and "Life more Abundant."

Therefore the question is not as to finality where there is none, but as to

the next step in the progression. Four kingdoms we know: what is to be the

Fifth? All along the line the progress has been in one direction, namely,

toward the development of more perfect Individuality, and therefore on the

principle of continuity we may reasonably infer that the next stage will

take us still further in the same direction. We want something more perfect

than we have yet reached, but our ideas as to what it should be are very

various, not to say discordant, for one person's idea of better is another

person's idea of worse. Therefore what we want to get at is some broad

generalization of principle which will be in advance of our past

experiences. This means that we must look for this principle in something

that we have not yet experienced, and the only place where we can possibly

find principles which have not yet manifested themselves is _in gremio

Dei_--that is, in the innermost of the Originating Spirit, or as St. John

calls it, "in the bosom of the Father." So we are logically brought to

personal participation in the Divine Ideal as the only principle by which

the advance into the next stage can possibly be made. Therefore we arrive

at the question, What is the Divine Ideal like?

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