with it, not only by putting us in possession of the key to the
history of the past, but by showing us that it is the key to the
history of the future also, and furthermore by making evident on
a large scale the working of the same principle of Spiritual Law
by cooperation with which we may facilitate the process of our
own individual evolution. It thus adds a vivid interest to life,
giving us something worth looking forward to and introducing us
to a personal future which is not limited by the proverbial
three-score years and ten.

Now, we have seen that the first stage in the Creative Process is
always that of Feeling--a reaching-out by the Spirit in a
particular direction, and therefore we may look for something of
the same kind in the development of the great principle which we
are now considering. And we find this first vague movement of
this great principle in the intuitions of a particular race which
appears from time immemorial to have combined the two
characteristics of nomad wandering with their flocks and herds
and the symbolization of their religious beliefs in monuments of
stone. The monuments themselves have taken different forms in
different countries and ages, but the identity of their symbolism
becomes clear under careful investigation. Together with this
symbolism we always find the nomad character of the builders and
that they are invested with an aura of mystery and romance such
as we find nowhere else, though we always find it surrounding
these builders, even in countries so far apart as India and
Ireland. Then, as we pass beyond the merely monumental stage, we
find threads of historical evidence connecting the different
branches of this race, increasing in their complexity and
strengthening in their cumulative force as we go on, until at