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employed, the Psychosis, while preserving it- 

 self as individual, is united with the Pampsy- 

 chosis as universal, completing the same in 

 its triune process of God, Nature and Man. 

 which constitutes the fulfilled cycle of the 

 Universe. The primordial fact, therefore, of 

 human consciousness (or the Ego) is that, 

 ere it can become, it must share in the uni- 

 versal or divine consciousness. Man, to know 

 himself, must at the same time know the All- 

 Self, though both knowledges be at first very 

 faint. Our single Ego is not drawn out of 

 itself merely, but must tap the universal cre- 

 ative Ego. 



It is fitting to ask when and where this 

 transition, this breaking-through of con- 

 sciousness took place, perchance like the chick 

 out of the egg-shell. No doubt the change 

 was slow measured even in millenniums. The 

 antiquity of man is now thrown back into 

 the Tertiary at least a million of years ago, 

 as the geologists say. As to locality, Egypt 

 again looms up as the probable starting- 

 point. The Nile may well be regarded on 

 Nature's side as the father of conscious man. 

 No other river, no other part of the globe 

 furnishes so many favorable conditions for 

 the rise of human Ego. The Nile fed its 

 early anthropoid children with a hand which 

 reached from an unknown source like a deity, 



