of glory do we come
From God who is our home.

The great poets are the best theologians after all, for they see the
farthest. The true being is consciousness; the universe, visible and
invisible, is consciousness. The higher self of the individual man
infolds more of the consciousness of God than the lower, but lower and
higher are the same thing. This may be a difficult thought to grasp,
but the time is rapidly approaching when it will be more generally
accepted than it is now.

+The unity of humanity.+--Another inference from the theory of the
subconscious mind is that of the fundamental unity of the whole human
race. Indeed all life is fundamentally one, but there is a kinship of
man with man which precedes that of man with any other order of being.
Here again the spiritual truth cuts across what seem to be the dictates
of common sense. Common sense assumes that I and Thou are eternally
distinct, and that by no possibility can the territories of our
respective beings ever become one. But even now, and on mere everyday
grounds, we are finding reason to think otherwise. You are about to
make an observation at table and some member of your family makes it
before you; you are thinking of a certain tune and someone begins to
hum it; you have a certain purpose in mind and, lo, the same thought
finds expression in someone else, despite all probabilities. Oh, you
may remark, This is only thought transference. Precisely, but what are
you except your thought? All being, remember, is conscious of being.
The infinite consciousness sees itself as a whole; the finite
consciousness sees the same whole in part. Ultimately your being and
mine are one and we shall come to know it. Individuality only has
meaning in relation to the whole, and individual consciousness can only
be fulfilled by expanding until it embraces the whole. Nothing that
exists in your consciousness now and constitutes your self-knowledge
will ever be obliterated or ever can be, but in a higher state of
existence you will realise it to be a part of the universal stock. I
shall not cease to be I, nor you to be you; but there must be a region
of experience where we shall find that you and I are one.

+The Self is God.+--A third inference, already hinted at and presumed
in all that has gone before, is that the highest of all selves, the
ultimate Self of the universe, is God. The New Testament speaks of man
as body, soul, and spirit. The body is