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beach, it passes into the ether and is no more. If you hoard it as you would a small store of something that you feared to lose, it will ooze away from you and leave you weak in purpose and action.

If you get the idea that your will is bad and its exercise a sin, that the personal will is something to be crushed, then your inner sight is diseased and defective, and your inference illogical, for to crush the will involves an exercise of will to do the crushing, and the spectacle of will crushing itself out of existence, and remaining a victor in the field after it has crushed itself, is an unthinkable proposition. It is equivalent to saying that you have destroyed yourself and yet still exist.

The very impossibility of the conception proves that Will is an Essential to Life and Being, and being an Essential, its destruction is inconceivable. Herbert Spencer's argument for the indestructibility of Matter is that you cannot think it out of existence. You can think of it as passing into other forms, but you cannot think of it as utterly destroyed. The same argument would hold good concerning the Will.

Schopenhauer held that the entire Universe is projected into space by Will and Idea, which I suppose is equivalent to saying it is projected by Energy and Thought, Will standing for the Energy that projects and Idea for the shape or Thought-Form assumed by the projective Energy. Every object in Creation is put forth into existence by effort of this One Will and the will of the