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caterpillar has to mount the twig to find the tender 

 green that is his food, but he is solaced for the jour- 

 ney by thinking himself a creature of the light. Mr. 

 Carpenter, in an interesting study of what he calls 

 Intermediate Types, shows that the seers and spiritu- 

 ally minded came to be such because they found them- 

 selves differing in some wise from their fellows, and 

 dwelling on that difference, had their minds turned 

 inward. Progress in thought and imagination nat- 

 urally followed, with the result that these were lifted 

 above the majority and attained thereby to larger 

 vision. 



Only in the height and depth of the soul's experi- 

 ence is to be found the spiritual reach, the fourth 

 dimension for which we seek. 



" So fear not grief, fear not anguish, thou, 

 The paining heart, the prostrate brow ; 

 This is the emblem, and this the sign, 

 By which God singles thee for fields divine." 



WHENCE THE IMPRISONED SPLENDOUR MAY ESCAPE, 

 THAN IN EFFECTING ENTRY FOR A UGHT SUPPOSED TO 

 BE WITHOUT. THEREFORE, SET FREE THE SOUL ALIKE 

 IN ALL, DISCOVERING THE TRUE LAWS BY WHICH THE 

 FLESH ACCLOYS THE SPIRIT ! " 



In view of recent investigation, one may safely as- 



