THE MYSTERY OF THE WILL-FORCE.

Will-Force is the power of Re-action.  It can render all the other mental functions active or passive.  It is the DETERMINATIVE faculty and is affected most of all by the JUDGMENT.  On the lower plane of mind, Will-Power manifests as Desire and is reciprocally influenced by outside attractions as well as repulsions.  On this plane the Will is not free.  But when it draws the volition for externalizing itself from Within in the light of the Higher Reason, then indeed is it Will-Power.  On the material the human will is a slave; on the spiritual plane it is the sovereign.  It may then be called the “awakened” will.  It is my conviction that the eternal crossing of swords between the Determinists and the Libertarians can be set at rest only by a right understanding of the spiritual makeup of man, otherwise the arguments of both sets of thinkers are equally strong.  Each side has got hold of half the truth, but requires the reconciling light of transcendental Psychology in order to enable us to see the whole truth as it is.  However, the point I am driving at is that your will is free only when it is self-determined i.e., when it has risen above the impulses of the Lower Personal Self and acts under the direction of the Higher Impersonal Self_.  In order to fix this most important truth in your mind, let us give you a brief idea of the “I AM” consciousness.  Do not pass this by as so much dry rot.  No one will ever or can ever manifest genuine Will-Force of a distinctly spiritual type who does not understand the “I AM” consciousness.  So please listen attentively and think over the following.

THE “I AM” CONSCIOUSNESS.

If you just turn in and examine the report of your consciousness regarding the self-dwelling within, you will become conscious of the “I”.  But if you press your examination a little closer you will find that this “I” may be split up into two distinct aspects which, while working in unison and conjunction, may nevertheless be set apart in thought.  There is an “I” function and there is a “me” function and these mental twins develop distinct phenomena.  The first is the “MASCULINE” principle; the second is the “FEMININE” principle.  Other terms used in current writings on New Psychology are Conscious Mind, Active Mind, Voluntary Mind, Objective Mind and so forth.  These all refer to the “I” principle.  And the “me” form of mind corresponds to the Sub-Conscious Mind, Passive Mind, Involuntary Mind, Subjective Mind and so on.  Ninety-nine p. c. of humanity mean this “me” when they say “I”.  Now let us examine what this “me” implies.  It consists largely of our consciousness, of our body and physical sensations as associated with touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing.  The consciousness of some of us is largely bound up in the physical and carnal side of life.