Let any thought or motive of mine be different from what they are, the difference will transform my condition. You call it the power of circumstance. The Third Fundamental Proposition of the Secret Doctrine presents a picture of the vast sweep of evolution, from the elemental kingdoms up to the holiest archangel. All is Life. There is a force in every creature that impels it to ascend to higher forms of life.
Plants are the young of the world, but they grope ever upward towards consciousness.
He saw that something was needed which took both into account and offered a basis of reconciliation. This basis he offered to the world as his Ideal Theory. The true scientist must deal with forms according to the life within if he hopes to fathom the secrets of Nature. In his Journal of 1866 he gives a dissertation on the Eastern views of Science, and shows how Science can perform its real function only when it learns to separate the real from the unreal and arrives at the contemplation of the One Life and the One Cause. It is contained in a single word.