e-conscious, mortal life.

Dante; the Brownings; Shelley; Swinbourne; Goethe; Milton; Keats; Rosetti;
Shakespeare; Pope; Lowell--where should we stop, did we essay to draw a
line?

WORDSWORTH

Wordsworth, the poet of Nature has given us in his own words, so clearly
cut an outline of his Illumination, that we can not resist recording here
the salient points which mark his experience as that of cosmic
consciousness, transcending the more frequent phenomenon of
soul-consciousness and its psychic functions.

Wordsworth's Ode to immortality epitomizes the lesson of the Yoga
sutras--out of The Absolute we come, and return to immortal bliss with
consciousness added. Wordsworth also affords an excellent example of our
contention that cosmic consciousness does not come to us at any specific
age or time. Wordsworth distinctly says that as a child he possessed this
faculty, as for example his oft-repeated words, both in conversation and in
his biography:

"Nothing was more difficult for me in childhood than to admit the notion of
death, as a state applicable to my own being. It was not so much from
feelings of animal vivacity that my difficulty came, as from a sense of the
indomitableness of the spirit within me. I used to brood over the stories
of Enoch and Elijah, and almost to persuade myself that, whatever might
become of others, I should be translated, in something of the same way, to
heaven. With a feeling congenial to this, I was often unable to think of
external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that
I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in, my own immaterial
nature. Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree,
to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality."

In later life, Wordsworth lost the realization of this supra-consciousness,
in what a commentator calls a "fever of rationalism"; but the power of that
wonderful spiritual vision, pronounced in his youth, could not be utterly
lost and soon after he reached his thirtieth year, he again becomes the
spiritual poet, fully conscious of his higher nature--the cosmic conscious
self.

WILLIAM SHARP--"FIONA MACLEOD"

A pronounced instance of the two phases of consciousness, is that of the
late William Sharp, one of the best known writers of the modern English
school.

It was not until after the death of William Sharp, that the secret of this
dual personality was given to the public, althoug