But if this world is the work of a Creator, it has been created so that He might experience external life. In other words the knowing aspect of life has wished to know the knowable part of life; and its joy depended upon knowing, which alone comes through experience. Moreover its evolution and development depend on the inspiration which is brought by experience alone. And inasmuch as it is necessary for the knowing aspect of life, or the soul, to return at length to its original state of being, even so it is necessary for it to experience first of all the life it created for the very reason that it might know.