1 88 Traces of Unity in the Phenomena of 



ing state. The dreamer, in fact, for the time, forgets his 

 body as much as if he were actually disembodied. And 

 why ? Is it that in dreaming there is a partial escape 

 from the world of appearances, the world of the senses, 

 which is emphatically the world of the waking state ? 

 Is it that then, more clearly than in the waking state, 

 man realizes, as belonging to himself, a trans-corporeal 

 presence, the revelation being not altogether unlike that 

 by which the relations of the earth to the universe are 

 made known on a starry night " by the withdrawal of the 

 veil of light " ? Is it that then " a ladder reaching from 

 the earth to mysterious altitudes above the earth " is set 

 up for every man as it was once for the Patriarch Jacob ? 

 Is it that sleep, like death, is the gateway to a fuller 

 life, because then the chain is loosened by which man 

 while awake is fettered to a ' body of death ? ' So it may" 

 be ; and, if so, then the story told by the imagination 

 is the same as that told by the memory, with 

 additions that give it greater emphasis and wider 

 scope a story of which the chief burden is still 

 this, that, so far, the phenomena of mind point to trans- 

 corporeity, and through trans-corporeity, to unity in 

 diversity and diversity in unity, as the very foundation 

 of these phenomena. 



What holds good of the imagination and the memory 

 would also seem to hold good of the will. How is it 

 that I am free to say yes and no, and to act accordingly ? 

 How is it that the will of one man may control or be 

 controlled by the will of another man ? Not, surely, by 

 taking a lower view of will than that which would seem 

 to be necessitated by the history of the imagination and 

 the memory. Indeed, the more the matter is looked 



