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and then appropriating, storing and using more, so that while busied with its limited store it is not conscious of the whole, of which its store is but a fraction.

With the physical eye we see the entire tree and its connection with the branch, and we see enough of the ocean to imagine its entirety and connect it with the wave, but with the inner eye we do not at first perceive the whole of that hidden force, the Will, and therefore we do not realize its connection with the individual will. But when it is brought to our attention that such a Wholeness or Unity of Will exists, then, while looking at a portion of the One Will, which we recognize as our individual portion, the mind sees dimly, symbolically, the Whole Will, something as the physical eye, when gazing directly at some object, sees dimly and indirectly the surrounding objects that impinge upon the fringe of vision.

There is an abnormal state of the physical eye in which the sight narrows and can see only the point where it centres its vision, all else being excluded, and this same abnormal state of the inner eye prevails when that portion of the Will which you call your will is only present to your perception. The more abnormal your inner sight, the smaller your will seems.

At such times your inner eye is sick, weak and imperfect, so that it cannot see what really is, that which is present with you, and there for you to see, but shut away from your vision because you are afflicted with mental astigmatism.