If so, the psychic factor was a form of vibrations of
the ether within the ether--and so, when it appeared, had evolved
to higher forms, was consciousness.
Matter is an evolution, and out of it hare evolved life, the
psychic factor, consciousness. But consciousness is, then, for the
reasons above indicated, a manifest of Infinite and Eternal
Reality.
Consciousness is the condition of personality. When the former
first appeared, it was a product. Thenceforth, because personality
was a psychic factor in consciousness, it became a creator. That
is to say, it was capable of enlargement and enrichment, and so,
began to unfold its powers, to enrich its own contents by
appropriation, and to organize itself in various ways depending
upon its nature in each case and the influence of environment. In
seeking to realize itself, as it must do in the nature of things,
and in adjusting to environment, which was a second necessity of
its being, it began to direct the activities of matter comprising
its own body, to select matter from without needful for its kind
of body, and to build this material up into a kind of body best
adapted to its existence, and thus, by its own character, to
determine the character of the organism which it inhabited.
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