But what is it when approached from the other?
The six billiard balls have simply changed their places.

When they corresponded to low desire, they formed, let us say, an oval; when they corresponded to the heroic desire, they formed, let us say, a circle.

Now what is the cause and what the conditions of this change?
Clearly a certain impetus imparted to the balls, and certain fixed laws under which that impetus operates.

The question is what laws and what impetus are these?
Are they the same or not the same, now the balls correspond to consciousness, as they were before, when the balls did not correspond to it?
One of two things must happen.

Either the balls go on moving by exactly the same laws and forces they have always moved by, and are in the grasp of the same invincible necessity, or else there is some new and disturbing force in the midst of them, with which we have to reckon.