We never create any force (_e.g._ electricity) but we provide special conditions under which the force manifests _itself_ in a variety of useful and beautiful ways, unsuspected possibilities which lay hidden in the power until brought to light by the cooperation of the Personal Factor.
Now it is precisely the introduction[3] of this Personal Factor that concerns us, because to all eternity we can only recognize things from our own center of consciousness, whether in this world or in any other; therefore the practical question is how to specialize in our own case the _generic_ Originating Life which, when we give it a name, we call "the Spirit." The method of doing this is perfectly logical when we once see that the principle involved is that of the Self-recognition of Spirit.

We have traced the _modus operandi_ of the Creative Process sufficiently far to see that the existence of the cosmos is the result of the Spirit's seeing itself _in_ the cosmos, and if this be the law of the whole it must also be the law of the part.

But there is this difference, that so long as the normal average relation of particles is maintained the whole continues to subsist, no matter what position any particular particle may go into, just as a fountain continues to exist no matter whether any particular drop of water is down in the basin or at the top of the jet.

This is the _generic_ action which keeps the race going as a whole.

But the question is, What is going to become of ourselves?
Then because the law of the whole is also the law of the part we may at once say that what is wanted is for the Spirit _to see itself in us_--in other words, to find in us the Reciprocal which, as we have seen, is necessary to its Enjoyment of a certain Quality of Consciousness.