ly "above man in consciousness."

It is said that the wild animals of the wood, were wont to come to her
door, and she talked to them, as though they were humans. An injured hare
came limping to her door in the early morning hours and "spoke" to her.

Upon which, she arose and dressed, and opened the door of her dwelling with
words of greeting, as she would use to a neighbor.

She washed the soil from the injured foot, and "loved" it back to
wholeness, so that when the hare departed there was no trace of injury.

She declared that she spoke to and was answered by, the birds and the
flowers, and the animals, just as she was by persons.

Indeed, among the high priests of the Jains, and the Zens (sects which may
be classed as highly developed Occultists), entering into animal
consciousness, is a power possessed by all initiates.

Passing along a highway near a Zen temple, the driver of a cart was stopped
by a priest, who gently said: "My good man, with some of the money you have
in your purse please buy your faithful horse a bucket of oats. He tells me
he has been so long fed on rice straw that he is despondent."

To the Occidental mind this will doubtless appear to be the result of keen
observation, the priest being able to see from the appearance of the animal
that he was fed on straw. They will believe, perhaps, that the priest
expressed his observations in the manner described to more fully impress
the driver, but this conclusion will be erroneous. The priest, possessing
the enlarged or all-inclusive consciousness which in the west is termed
"cosmic," actually did speak to the horse.

Nor is this fact one which the western mind should be unable to follow.
Science proves the fact of consciousness existing in the atoms composing
even what has been termed _inanimate_ objects. How much more comprehensible
to our understanding is the consciousness of an animate organism, even
though this organism be not more complex than the horse.

There is a Buddhist monastery built high on the cliff overlooking the Japan
Inland sea, which is called a "life-saving" monastery.

The priests who preside over this temple, possess the power of extending
their consciousness over many miles of sea, and on a vibration attuned to a
pitch above the sound of wind and wave, so that they can hear a call of
distress from fishermen who need their help.

This fact being admitted, might be accounted for by the uninitiated, as a
wonderfully "trai