condensation the Energy, whether electricity or Life, is simply
_dispersed_ and _achieving no purpose_. Therefore distinctness from the
undifferentiated Original Life is a necessity of the case. Consequently
the higher the degree of Consciousness of Individuality, the greater
must be the Consciousness of _Distinctness of Personality_.

We say of a "wobbly" sort of person: "That fellow is no use, you can't
depend on him." We say of a person whose ideas, intentions, and methods
are subject to continual variations under all sorts of outside
influences, whether of opinions or circumstances, that he has "no
backbone," meaning that he is in want of individuality. He has no real
thought of his own, and so has no Word of Power by which to co-operate
with the Law; therefore, to the extent to which this is the case with
any of us, we are of no use in furthering the unfoldment of Evolution,
whether in ourselves or anywhere else.

Now we talk a lot about Evolution or the _un_-folding, but we seem often
not to realize that there must be something to unfold; and that
therefore _In_-volution, or the concentration of the Life-principle,
must be a condition precedent to its _E_-volution. This process of
Involution must therefore be a process of gradually increasing
concentration of the Life-principle, by association with denser and
denser modes of the Universal Substance. Then, on the principle of
Vibration, the less dense the substance in which the Life is immersed,
the more it must be subject to being stirred by vibratory currents other
than those produced by the conscious action of the Ego, or inherent
Life, of the individuality that is being formed.

But "_the Sum of the Vibrations in anything determines the mode, power,
and direction of its action_"; therefore, the less the Ego be
concentrated through association with a dense vehicle, the more "wobbly"
it must be, and consequently the less able to take any effective part in
the further work of Creation. But in proportion as the Ego builds up an
_Individual_ _Will_, the more it gets out of the "wobbly" state--or, to
refer once more to the idea of etheric waves--it becomes able to select
what vibrations it will receive, and what vibrations it will send out.

The involution of the Ego into the physical body, such as we at present
know it, is therefore a necessity of the case, if any effective
Individuality is to be brought into existence, and the work of Creation
carried on inste