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.This is evident only when arrested, orrather slowed up, when it becomes either visible or palpable oreffective, through the efforts of its dynamics to free itself and proceedupon its way.Arrested by an IDEA it becomes a creature or a thing,dependent for its form and its attributes upon the nature of the idea,what we have called the quality of consciousness.Slowed up by a purpose,rather than an idea, it becomes a vehicle of differentiated force,dependent for its nature and its effect upon the nature of the purpose."The origin of the idea that results in the created thing is anintelligence of higher development than your own or my own.Suchintelligence as ours, however, can construct a purpose which may beeffective.The handling and originating of these purposes is theessential of the technique of utilizing these currents of force."As to the nature of this primary "force," this flow of vitality, anotherInvisible had to say:"Now let's see.This force.Its nature is to dissipate, unless it meetssome force that helps its particularization.But the force WANTS to beassisted, so to speak.It comes for the purpose of obtainingcomplementary force.I don't want to speak didactically, but I must builda little fence of words around the conception.So remember that: rememberthere is a waiting undifferentiated thing that wants to bedifferentiated."What results from this differentiation--which is a checking by anintention, to use an inclusive term, originating in intelligence--is acreation of some sort.What that creation is depends on the intention, orplan.No thing can possibly exist in the material except AFTER it hasexisted in plan.That is true of original creation; it is also true ofeven our simplest fabrication.If we are going to build a chair, we must127first plan its details in our minds.We have been told that the 64plans," or prototypes, in the Invisible of the various species of earthmay be called QUALITIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS.That bit of Consciousness whichis manifested as a tree does so because it has treeness as its quality.The dog is a dog because he is an embodiment of the dog quality ofConsciousness.So likewise with the human and the reptile and the mineraland all that is.Each represents its own quality of Consciousness.And,to return to the starting point, that quality is what it is because theflow of primal force has been checked, or slowed, or arrested by thatINTENTION."The very grass you walk on supports the argument.Grass is the effect offorce, the current of Life differentiated and purposed in the directionof grass--checked into manifestation, but defined as the intention ofgrass.By the same process and for the same reason, you are you.Thething that is you is an arrestment of motion, the essence of which isfrequency.Your frequency is what you are, just as an arrestment ofanother frequency makes the tree.""By arrestment I do not mean stoppage.Take the supposition that matteris a rate of vibration.There is a rate of movement that representsmatter.Since there is only one Reality, and as matter is one thing andyou another, you must have different rates of vibration.The essence ofboth you and matter is consciousness.The difference between you andmatter is the rate of vibration, THE FREQUENCY.But the nature offrequency is motion.Therefore, everything is in motion.That is whyconsciousness and the universe are in evolution."This precipitated a question which plunged us into a discussion of theESSENCES of our finite time, space and motion: which were defined, itwill be recalled, as receptivity, conductivity and frequency.** For a discussion of the constitution of matter, see The UnobstructedUniverse, from which some of this is quoted."About the arresting of frequencies," said one of us, "what DOES the128arresting--mechanically, I mean?""The juxtaposition of frequencies in time and space.You could perhapsillustrate it by algebra.X plus Y plus Z equals a stone.X plus 2Y plusZ equals a weed.2X plus Y plus Z equals a flower.And so on.X is afrequency; Y is a conductivity; Z is a receptivity.""That describes a process," objected the questioner, "but does not saywhat does the arresting.And anyway I don't like the word 'arrest.' Thatmeans stop short.A frequency's got to wiggle a little.""The potentiality of evolution is still in the arrested frequency.It isheld in suspension," was the reply to this."Nevertheless, what arrests the frequency?" we persisted."Here is a line coming down on a slant this way; call it receptivity.Here's a line coming down on a slant this way; call that conductivity.And here's a line slanting in still another way; and we'll call thatfrequency.Now all three are in evolution.If the lines of frequency andconductivity strike receptivity together in one place, one manifestationoccurs.If you move the angle the first two make so they strike the thirdin even the slightest deviation from the former position, then you getanother manifestation.But always all three must come together at asingle point.They are variable, malleable and in evolution.""Frequencies coming into time and space are arrested by the very natureof that situation?" we asked further."No.It occurs because there is a stress point created by thejuxtaposition of the three.Varying angles of incidence; various stresspoints."These general principles seemed to us clear enough.The Invisiblesevidently considered that sufficient had been given to warrant anepitome.129"I will make an attempt, now that all the evidence has been statedpiecemeal, to sketch a picture of the whole process of creativefashioning."The infinite universe is a flow of unbroken and unmanifested harmony.Creation is an arrestment or checking of the flow of this universalharmony, its differentiation, and its rearrangement into a new form ofparticularization."The amount and the quality of this first segregation is dependent on theinterposition of an individual entity by which it is checked and throughwhich it is filtered."The rearrangement depends upon the innate creative imagination possessedby that entity."The endurance of the result is dependent on the dynamics with which thecreative intelligence works.These dynamics in turn depend upon thedegree of spiritual development and aspiration to which their originatorhas attained."The reality of the creation--reality in its broadest sense--is closelyrelated to the fact that both the fashioning and the embodiment arecarried out through a finite medium.I use the word 'finite' in place of'material,' though in the broad sense the two terms are interchangeable.However, common acceptance has given the word 'material' a narrowerconnotation."These are all the elements, collected together and stated, of thecreative act."4We have considered the general principles of creation [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]