THE SUPERIOR PRINCIPLE NOT ALWAYS UTILIZED.

But is the superior principle not "ours" also? Surely, but only when we

are conscious thereof; for we do not always utilize our possessions.

This utilization, however, takes place when we direct this middle

part of our being towards either the upper or lower worlds, and when

we actualize into energies what before was only an (Aristotelian)

"potentiality" or a (Stoic) "habit."

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