CHAPTER III 



THE LIFE-SPIRAL 



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" ARMIES OF ANGELS THAT SOAR, LEGIONS OF DE- 

 MONS THAT LURK." 



Man includes, in his genesis, the cell-life below 

 him; are there higher entities likewise inclusive of 

 him? Zeitgeist, mob-mind, class spirit may well be 

 more than metaphors. We seek to breathe a spirit- 

 ual meaning into the material forms of the old my- 

 thologies ; rather we should seek to know the spiritual 

 entities of our own thought-cosmos. 



The social pressure about us is enormous. The 

 supremacy of the self is constantly threatened, not 

 only by uprisings in the subconscious part of the 

 realm, but by the domination of new powers from its 

 supra-conscious borders. 1 Long-suppressed, for- 

 gotten elements within would combine with unknown, 

 mythical creatures from without for its complete 



i " To any man there may come at times a consciousness that 

 there blows, through all the articulalions of his body, the wind 

 of a spirit not wholly his; that his mind rebels; that another 

 girds him and carries him whither he would not." 



STEVENSON. 

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