iness--and his admonitions were the result of that fine sense of
discrimination and enlightenment which comes from cosmic perception even if
he had not experienced the deeper, fuller realization of liberation, of
which Buddha is a shining example.

It is evident that the laws laid down by Moses were taught and practised by
the Egyptians many many years prior to the time in which Moses lived, which
from the most reliable authorities, must have been about four to five
hundred years before the Exodus.

This does not detract from the evidence that the great Egyptian-Hebrew, was
a man of wonderful intellectual attainments, and from what we know of
modern examples of Illumination, he also possessed a degree of cosmic
consciousness.

The story of the seemingly miraculous birth of Moses, and the mystery with
which his ancestry is surrounded, is also typical of one who has attained
to cosmic consciousness.

The Illumined one realizes his birthlessness and his deathlessness, and
expresses it in symbolism, meaning of course, the realization that as the
spirit is never born and can never die, the idea of age is an
unreality--and should find no place in the consciousness of one who regards
himself as an indestructible atom of the Cosmos.

But the evidences regarding the probable Illumination of Moses are to be
found in the reports of his ascension of Mt. Sinai, and what occurred
there.

The phenomenon of the great light which is inseparable from instances of
cosmic consciousness, and which gives to the phenomenon its name
"Illumination," was apparently marked in the case of Moses.

The "burning bush," which he describes is the experience of the mind when
the illusion of sense has ceased, even temporarily, to obscure the mental
vision.

"And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire, and out of
the midst of a bush; and he looked and behold, the bush burned with fire
and the bush was not consumed."

There is a subtler interpretation to this report than that usually given,
even by those who realize that this expression is an evidence of the sudden
influx of supra consciousness which attends the soul's liberation from the
limits of sense consciousness.

The "burning bush" is synonymous with the "tree of life" which is ever
alive with the "fires of creation."

All who realize liberation are endowed with the power to understand this
symbol. For those who have not attained to this degree of consciousness,
the