Two points should be touched upon here: First, that in any consideration of the human being - whether we regard him simply as a man or as a spiritual entity - we are in reality dealing with a most complex aggregate of differentiated energies, through which or among which the consciousness plays. This consciousness is, in the early stages, nothing more than a vague diffused awareness, undefined, unidentified and free from any definite focus of attention. Later, it becomes more awake and aware and the focus becomes centered in the realm of selfish desire, and its satisfaction and assuagement. To this condition we can give the general name of the "wish life" with its objective, personal happiness, leading eventually to consummated desire, but a consummated desire postponed till after death and to which we have given the name "heaven". Later (again as the mind nature integrates with the other more developed aspects), we have the emergence of a definitely self-conscious entity, and a strictly human being, characterized by intelligence, comes into active expression. The focus of attention is still the satisfaction of desire, but it is the desire to know, the will to understand through investigation, discrimination and analysis.

Throughout all these processes we see the bringing together of many types of energy, all of them distinguished by quality of some kind or another, which - when brought into relation with each other - produce first of all a period of chaos, of anarchy and of difficulty. Later ensues a period of synthesis, of organized activity and of a fuller expression of divinity. But there remains for a long time the need for recognition of energy and its right use.