he holiness of earthly, or human, love, bespeaks the prophet of the New
Dispensation; the time hinted of by Jesus, the Master, when he said, "when
the twain shall be one and the outside as the inside," as a sign and symbol
of the blessed time to come when the kingdom he spoke of (not his personal
kingdom, but the kingdom which he represented, the kingdom of Love), should
come upon earth.

Whitman's illumination is essentially poetic; not that it is not also
intellectual and moral; but after his experience--at least an experience
more notable than any hitherto recorded by him, in or about his
thirty-fifth year--we find his conversation invariably reflecting the
beauty and poetical imagery of his mind. He may be said to have lived and
moved and had his being in a state of blissful unconsciousness of anything
unclean or impure, or unnatural.

This absence of _consciousness of evil_ is in no wise synonymous with a
type of person who _exalts_ his undeveloped animal tendencies under the
guise of liberation from a sense of sin. Neither is this discrimination
easy of attainment to any but those who _realize_ in their own hearts the
very distinct difference between the nothingness of sin and the pretended
acceptance of perversions as purity.

While we are on this point we must again emphasize the truth that cosmic
consciousness cannot be gained by prescription; there is no royal road to
_mukti_. Liberation from the lower _manas_ can not be bought or sold, it
can not be explained or comprehended, save by those to whom the attainment
of such a state is at least _possible_ if not _probable_.

Illustrative of his sense of unity with all life (one of the most salient
characteristics of the fully cosmic conscious man), are these lines of
Whitman's:

"Voyaging to every port, to dicker and adventure;
Hurrying with the modern crowd, as eager and fickle as any;
Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him;
Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long
while;
Walking the hills of Judea, with the beautiful gentle God by my side;
Speeding through space--speeding through Heaven and the stars."

Oriental mysticism tells us that one of the attributes of the liberated one
is the power to read the hearts and souls of all men; to feel what they
feel; and to so unite with them in consciousness that we _are_ for the time
being the very person or thing we contemplate. If this be indeed the te