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apparently disappeared, and the Maya in which 

 He arises, enveloped and circumscribed, is His own 

 re- vivified memory, which can never be separated 

 from Himself; He draws in His conscionsness, 

 under the impulse of the Great Breath, limiting it 

 to self-consciousness, and turning His attention to 

 the contents of that self-consciousness, its powers 

 start into activity, and that is Maya". So it is written : 

 "Thereafter, Thou, O Lord, intent on [maintain- 

 ing] the reign of night, fixed within the Self, 

 having indrawn that order of things, [or universe.] 



To-day, Thou hast awakened, and art most 



joyfully desirous of again throwing out [manifest- 

 ing] the universe in mighty gradations [hierachies 

 of beings]." \Yoga Vdsishtha, Ixxxvii, 7, 8.] These 

 nights and days are the " Nights and Days of 

 Brahma," the inbreathing and outbreathing of the 

 One Existence, and Maya is this indrawn " order 

 of things " that remains fixed through the Night, 

 and starts forth as Ishvara awakens at the coming 

 of Day. That is Maya; and if you take up the 

 definitions given in the different schools, you will 

 find that this includes and illumines every one of 

 them, that it shows you what is meant by illusion, 

 and explains to you what is implied in dreaming. 

 The joyful throwing out into manifestation of all 

 the powers that are remembered by Ishvara the 



