secrecy of the darkness which ushers our trembling being into
birth. Distinctions fail us. Words are useless now. We hear the
wells of consciousness at their mysterious task like an invisible
shiver of running water through the mossy shades of the caves. I
dissolve in the joy of becoming. I abandon myself to the delight of
being a pulsing reality. I no longer know whether I see scents,
breathe sounds, or smell colours. Do I love? Do I think? The
question has no longer a meaning for me. I am, in my complete self,
each of my attitudes, each of my changes. It is not my sight which
is indistinct or my attention which is idle. It is I who have
resumed contact with pure reality, whose essential movement admits
no form of number.

How much greater the joy of him who knows that Reality is God, and that
God is Father.

The open secret flashes on the brain,
As if one almost guessed it, almost knew
Whence we have sailed and voyage whereunto.

Let us suppose that the whole Church of Christ was engaged in teaching
men this high mystery, this open secret, that all such great
associations as the Christian Students' Movement, the Adult Sunday
School Movement, the World Association for Adult Education, and all the
numerous Missionary Societies throughout the whole earth--let us suppose
that the entire Church of Christ was at work in the world teaching
Christ's teaching, _educating_ men, bringing it home to the heart and
mind of humanity that "life is mental travel," that it is in our
thoughts we live and by our thoughts we are shaped, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, that all terrestrial values are
radically false, that to hunger and thirst after anything is to get it,
that the power of "the dominant wish" is our fate, that in love alone
can we live to the full stature of our destiny, that the Kingdom of God
is within us, that the engine of faith has not yet been exerted by the
whole human race in concert, that conquests await us in the spiritual
world before which all the conquests of the material world will pale
into insignificance, that we are spirits finding our way out of the
darkness of an animal ancestry into the Light of an immortal inheritance
as children of God; let us suppose that this, and not dogma was the
Voice of the Church; must we not say that by such teaching the whole
world would eventually be rescued from our present c