A great and abiding love for and patience with the frailties of his
sense-conscious fellow-beings;

A transcendent desire to bestow upon all men, the blessing of cosmic
consciousness.

Few if any, have ever attained a full and complete realization of cosmic
consciousness and remained in the physical body.

Those who have attained and retained the highest degree of this glimpse of
the Paradise of the gods, find it practically impossible to describe or
explain the sensations experienced, even though they are more convinced of
the truth and the reality of this realm than of anything in the merely
sense-conscious life.

Lastly, let us not lose sight of the all-important fact that no one system,
creed, philosophy, or way of Illumination will answer for all types and
degrees of men. "All things work together for good" to those who have the
keenness of vision which precedes the full attainment of cosmic
consciousness, as well as to those who have grasped its full significance.

The characteristic evidence of the potentiality of the present era of the
world, is preeminently that of a desire for unity.

This desire is expressed in all the avenues of external life; its inner
meaning is obscured by commercialism and self-interest, as in trusts and
labor unions, but it is there nevertheless--the symbol of the inner urge
toward unity in consciousness.

It is found in efforts at Communism, and in allied reform movements. It is
particularly evident in the breaking down of church prejudices. In these
days a Catholic priest and a Jewish rabbi find it not only expedient but
mutually helpful, to unite in the work of municipal reform; in the
abolition of child labor; in all things that will bring a better state of
existence into daily human life.

The business man uses the phrase "let us get together on this" without
knowing that he is expressing in terms of sense-consciousness, the urge of
his own and his fellow beings' inner mind, which senses the fact of our
unescapable Brotherhood.

All religious systems then, are good, as are all systems of philosophy.
They are good because they are an attempt at bringing into the perspective
of the mortal mind the reality of the soul and the soul life; the rule of
the spiritually conscious ego over the physical body in order that we may
now, in our present incarnation, claim immortality.

CHAPTER XIII

MODERN EXAMPLES OF INTELLECTUAL COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS: EMERSON; TOLSTOI;
BALZAC