as such, is not
concerned.

As the vortex theory accounts for the formation of the inorganic world, so
does biology account for the formation of the living organism. That also
has its origin in a primary nucleus which, as soon as it is established,
operates as a centre of attraction for the formation of all those physical
organs of which the perfect individual is composed. The science of
embryology shows that this rule holds good without exception throughout the
whole range of the animal world, including man; and botany shows the same
principle at work throughout the vegetable world. All branches of physical
science demonstrate the fact that every completed manifestation, of
whatever kind and on whatever scale, is started by the establishment of a
nucleus, infinitely small but endowed with an unquenchable energy of
attraction, causing it to steadily increase in power and definiteness of
purpose, until the process of growth is completed and the matured form
stands out as an accomplished fact. Now if this be the universal method of
Nature, there is nothing unnatural in supposing that it must begin its
operation at a stage further back than the formation of the material
nucleus. As soon as that is called into being it begins to operate by the
law of attraction on the material plane; but what is the force which
originates the material nucleus? Let a recent work on physical science give
us the answer; "In its ultimate essence, energy may be incomprehensible by
us except as an exhibition of the direct operation of that which we call
Mind or Will." The quotation is from a course of lectures on "Waves in
Water, Air and AEther," delivered in 1902, at the Royal Institution, by J.
A. Fleming. Here, then, is the testimony of physical science that the
originating energy is Mind or Will; and we are, therefore, not only making
a logical deduction from certain unavoidable intuitions of the human mind,
but are also following on the lines of the most advanced physical science,
when we say that the action of Mind plants that nucleus which, if allowed
to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions
necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form. Now the only
action of Mind is Thought; and it is for this reason that by our thoughts
we create corresponding external conditions, because we thereby create the
nucleus which attracts to itself its own correspondences in due order until
the finished work is manif