THE PART AND THE WHOLE

in the hands of an artist ; a spiritual entity, of great potential energy and according to its own inhérent character and qualities, créâtes its own body by a process of self-incarnation ; nor does it incarnate itself piecemeal, finally binding up the parts by joints and ligaments into an organîsm, but it expresses its whole Self in each part in a particular way, and requires ail such parts for a complète self-expression on that particular plane of manifestation. That which Tennyson declared hypothetically as he gazed upon the '* flower in îhe crannied wall," Carpenter states categorically, and with ail the fervour of that expérience which made him a prophet :

You are that Whole which Nature also is — and yet you are tfaat Whole in 3rour own peculiar way.

Were your eyes destroyed, still the faculty of sight were not dtôtroyed ;

Out of thé same roots again as before would the optic apparatus spring.

Should you die of starvation you would only begin immediately after death to take food in anoth^ way ; and the impulse of union which is at the base of sex lies so deep down that the ûrst reawakening of consdousness would restore it.

BeUeve yourself a Whole, indivisible, indefeasible,

Reawakening ever under thèse, under those, conditions,

Expanding thus fax, eicpanding less fax, expanding fiarther ;

Expanding this side, expanding that side, expanding ail sides ;

Ever diverse yet the same, the same yet diverse-^ inexhaustibly continuous with the rest;

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