for the full maturing of that seed with which it is impregnated and thus bringing about the growth which ultimately culminates in completed manifestation.

Subconscious Mind

Perhaps the idea may be put into terms of modern Western thought by calling it the Subconscious Mind of the Universe; and if we regard it in this light, we may apply to it all those laws of the interaction between conscious and subconscious mentality with which I conclude most of my readers are familiar. [On this subject I would refer the reader to my Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science.]

Now the chief characteristics of subconscious mind are its amenability to suggestion and its power of working out into material conditions the logical consequences of the suggestion impressed upon it. It is not originative, but formative. It does not provide the seed, but it causes it to grow; and the seed is the suggestion impressed upon it by the objective mind.

If, then, we credit the Universal Subjective Mind with these same qualities, we find ourselves face to face with a stupendous power which by its nature affords the matrix for the germination of all the seeds of thought that are planted in it.

Looking at the totality of Nature as we see it --- the various types of life, vegetable, animal, and human,