ts and aspirations. I learn that the whole physical
Universe is a manifestation of the Will of the Spiritual,
that every phenomenon is as it were a sublime thought, that
it should be my greatest individual aspiration to try to
interpret those thoughts, or when, as it seems at present,
our stage in the evolution of thought is not far enough
advanced, I should during my short term of life do my best
to help forward the knowledge of the Good, Beautiful, and
True for those who come after. As I grow old the Real Ego in
me seems to be taking my place, the central activity of my
life is being shifted, as I feel I am growing in some way
independent of earthly desires and aspirations, and, when
the term of my temporary sojourn here draws to a close, I
feel myself slackening my hold of the physical until at last
I leave go entirely, and my physical clothing, having
fulfilled its use, drops off and passes away, carrying with
it all limitations of Time and Space. I awake as from a
dream to find my true heritage in the Spiritual Universe."

If we try to form a conception of the stages of growth of the
Transcendental Self it would, I think, be somewhat as follows:

The first consciousness}
of the Spiritual } I know that Love is the Summum Bonum.
entity would be.... }

As it became nourished } I love.
it would be.... }

Then.... I love with my whole being.

Then.... I know that I am part of God and God is Love.

And lastly.... I am perfected in Loving and Knowing.

And the above is the best description I have been able to formulate of
the development of the Mystical Sense by means of which we can get a
view of the Reality through our Window. I will try to give my own
experience of this, which will, I know, wake an echo in other hearts,
as I have met those who have felt the same. From a child I always had
an intense feeling that Love was the one thing above all worth having
in life, and, as I grew older and became aware that my real self was
akin to the Great Spirit, at certain times of elation or what might
be called a kind of ecstasy, I had an overpowering sense of longing
for union with the Reality, an intense love and craving to become one
with the All-loving. When analysed later in life this was recognised
as similar in kind, though different in degree, to the feeling which,