194 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



ganic world. It is the cosmos of a state of conscious- 

 ness. We cannot describe it in terms of any known 

 physical realities; neither can we express it in terms 

 of actions and reactions of any known physical entity. 

 Hence we infer that it is a manifestation of a new 

 entity which we call the soul, just as from the mani- 

 festations of electrical and magnetic forces Faraday 

 inferred the existence of new entitles which these nar- 

 ratives call the electrical and the magnetic flux. 



The cosmos of consciousness is a psychic reality. 

 It is subjective, of course; but it is as real to us as, 

 for instance, the objective physical reality of electrical 

 radiation. Just as electrical radiation reveals the 

 existence of an ultra-material entity, the electrical 

 flux, so the psychic realities of our consciousness reveal 

 the existence of an ultra-material entity, the soul. The 

 ultimate natures of these two entities are hidden be- 

 hind a cosmic veil which so far has remained impene- 

 trable. Their manifestations, however, are perfectly 

 clear. They are like a living embroidery of supremely 

 subtle texture adorning the visible face of the cosmic 

 veil. But just as Maxwell made many efforts to pene- 

 trate deeper into the meaning of Faraday's fluxes, so 

 the many efforts to penetrate deeper into the meaning 

 of the ultra-material entity called soul are perfectly 

 natural. Its meaning interests human enquiry to-day 

 just as much as it ever did since man began to observe 

 and to reason. 



But at the very outset of these endeavors the scien- 

 tist meets a serious difficulty. He immediately de- 

 tects a fundamental difference between the two ultra- 

 material substances; one of them, the electrical flux, 

 became a dynamically definite and hence perfectly in- 



