ngs, worry, inharmony, conflict, conflict
that downs us many times in mind, in spirit, in body--failure to follow
that Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, failure
to hear and to heed that Voice of the soul, that speaks continually
clearer as we accustom ourselves to listen to and to heed it, failure to
follow those intuitions with which the soul, every soul, is endowed, and
that lead us aright and that become clearer in their leadings as we
follow them. It is this guidance and this sustaining power that all
great souls fall back upon in times of great crises.

This single stanza by Edwin Markham voices the poet's inspiration:

At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky,
And flinging the clouds and the towers by,
Is a place of central calm;
So, here in the roar of mortal things
I have a place where my spirit sings,
In the hollow of God's palm.

"That the Divine Life and Energy _actually lives in us_," was the
philosopher Fichte's reply to the proposition--"the profoundest
knowledge that man can attain." And speaking of the man to whom this
becomes a real, vital, conscious realisation, he said: "His whole
existence flows forth, softly and gently, from his Inward Being, and
issues out into Reality without difficulty or hindrance."

There are certain faculties that we have that are not a part of the
active thinking mind; they seem to be no part of what we might term our
_conscious intelligence_. They transcend any possible activities of our
regular mental processes, and they are in some ways independent of them.
Through some avenue, suggestions, intuitions of truth, intuitions of
occurrences of which through the thinking mind we could know nothing,
are at times borne in upon us; they flash into our consciousness, as we
say, quite independent of any mental action on our part, and sometimes
when we are thinking of something quite foreign to that which comes to,
that which "impresses" us.

This seems to indicate a source of knowledge, a faculty that is distinct
from, but that acts in various ways in conjunction with, the active
thinking mind. It performs likewise certain very definite and distinct
functions in connection with the body. It is this that is called the
_subconscious mind_--by some the superconscious or the supernormal mind,
by others the subliminal self.

Just what the subconscious mind is no man knows. It is easier to define
its functions and to descr