William James

The Aphorism (#11) also says: "Consciousness always produces Activity, and manifests Motion."  Modern psychology also bears out this statement.  Prof. William James has brought out this point most forcibly in his works.  He says, among much else on the same subject:  "All Consciousness is Motor"; also: "Using sweeping terms and ignoring exceptions, we might say that every possible feeling produces a movement, and that the movement is a movement of the entire organism, and of each and all its parts...In short, a process set up in the centers reverberates everywhere, and in some way or other affects the organism throughout, making its activities either greater or less."  

Is it no plain that, granted the existence of the Cosmic Will in its aspect of a World-Brain, then every state of consciousnesswithin it must produce activity and motion within it; and must also manifest the corresponding physical and material changes in its substance and organic structure?   Does not this, coupled with the fact that consciousness depends upon constant change, give us, in the words of the Aphorism, "the explanation of the phenomena of the involution and evolution of the Cosmos, with all the incident! thereof?  Does not this explain to us the working of the Law of Sequence?