any creative act for the creative power itself --- the error of looking upon secondary causes as the originating cause and not seeing that they are themselves effects of something antecedent which works through them to the production of the ultimate effect. This is the fundamental error, and the opposite truth consists in connecting the ultimate effect directly with the intention of the originating intelligence and (from this point of view) excluding all consideration of the chain of intermediary causes which link these two extremes together.

Construction Is Not Creation

The exact weighing and balancing of the action of secondary causes, or particular laws of relation, has its proper place; it is the necessary basis of our work when we are constructing anything from without, just as an architect could not build a safe house without carefully calculating the strains and thrusts to which his materials would be subjected. But when we are considering an act of creation, we are dealing with an exactly opposite process, one that works from within by a vital growth which naturally assimilates to itself all that is necessary for its completion.

In the latter case we do not have to consider the mechanism through which the vital energy brings forth its ultimate fruition, for by the very fact of its being inherent energy working for manifestation in