_The evidence and fruit and reward of growth as involved in Altruism._ NATURE. As commonly used, "nature" means creation apart from man. The accepted definition is "creation," and as such includes man and all created things, and also the processes of creation--generation, degeneration and regeneration--as involved in growth. The common use of the word "nature" is a convenient one, and hence let us make use of it as meaning _creation other than man_. EGOCIATION. Egociation is, _Appreciation of self as a creation of God and as an instrument of Altruism_--to be cultivated to its greatest possibilities in order that it may render _Altruistic service in the execution of the Higher Law of Harmony_. There are two distinct kinds of _ego_--self: The _ego_ that is physically and intellectually born only, and whose tendencies are egotistically selfish, and therefore, _animalesque_: And the _ego_ that enjoys Appreciation, realizes God, loves spontaneously, understands the Higher Law of Harmony and serves with enthusiasm in the execution of the Law by the exercise of Divine Selection, and thereby attains True Happiness. The mental equipment of the unthinking is dulled by a confusion of these two _egos_, and hence they cultivate egotism, believing it to be _Egociation_; as they cultivate _fearthought_, believing it to be forethought; and as they tolerate license, believing it to be an attribute of liberty. The desirability of separating the lower, or animal, self from the Higher Self, warrants the coining of a term, sufficiently new to attract attention and sufficiently allied to well-known words to explain itself. With this object in view I have empirically selected a combination of _ego_ and _appreciation_, and in so doing, have coined the euphonious term _Egociation_ as an antithesis of "egotism," especially useful in inculcating a general understanding of the Higher Law of Harmony and in securing recognition of the place of the Higher Self within the Law. In the cultivation of Egociation, man recognizes and asserts an _individuality_, or _responsibility_, as a part of the whole, the result of appreciation, opposed to _personality_ or _separateness_, which is an attribute of egotism. * * * * * Words that carry good suggestion with them are less liable to do harm by being variously understood than those that convey bad suggestion. These latter should be defined in such a manner as to clearly suggest their badness; in fact, war should be waged upon them by every possible means. * * * * * EGOTISM. "Egotism" is _separation from God_. The fruit of egotism is selfishness. SELFISHNESS.