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WE are now in a position
to see the place occupied by the individual
in the Creative Order. We have found that
the originating and maintaining force of
the whole Creative Process is the Self-contemplation
of the Spirit, and that this necessarily
produces a Reciprocal corresponding to the
idea embodied in the contemplation, and
thus manifesting that idea in a correlative
Form. We have found that in this way the
externalization of the idea progresses from
the condensation of the primary nebula to
the production of human beings as a race,
and that at this point the simple generic
reproduction of the idea terminates. This
means that up to, and including, genus
Homo, the individual, whether plant,
animal, or man, is what it is simply by
reason of race conditions and not by exercise
of deliberate choice. Then we have seen
that the next step in advance must
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