KKAL PERSONALITY OR TRANSCENDENTAL EGO. 



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sight and hearing are alike based on the appreciation of 

 vibrations or frequencies of different rapidity ; brightness and 

 colour in light are equivalent to loudness and pitch in sound, 

 but in sound we have no equivalent to perception of form or 

 situation in space, v/e have no knowledge of the existence of an 

 object when situated at great distances, nor can we follow its 

 nriovements even at shortest distances without having material 

 contact with that object : light indeed appears to have to do 

 with Space — and Souud witli Time — perception. 



In examining Xature, by means of our senses, we are in this 

 position : — We find that Perception without knowledge leads to 

 false concepts, which lead us into difficulties, and this fact is 

 indeed our greatest incentive to acquire further knowledge ; but 

 our thoughts are so hemmed in by what we have always taken 

 for granted, and so bound down by modes of reasoning derived 

 from what we have seen, heard, or felt in our daily life, that we 

 are sadly hampered in our search after the truth. It is difficult 

 to sweep the erroneous concepts aside and make a fresh start. 

 In fact, the great difficulty in studying the reality underlying 

 Nature is analogous to our inability to isolate and study the 

 different sounds themselves which fall upon the ear, without 

 being forced to consider the meaning we have always attached 

 to those sounds, when words of our own language are being 

 uttered ; however hard we may try, it is hardly possible when 

 hearing the sound to dissociate the meaning or prevent our 

 mind from dwelling upon the thoughts which have hitherto 

 been allocated to those sounds. Our other great difficulty is 

 that our Physical senses only perceive the surface of things, we 

 are most of us looking uj)oii the woof of Nature as though it 

 were the glass of a window upon which are seen patterns, 

 smudges, dead flies, etc. ; it requires a keener perception than 

 that of sight to enable us to look through the glass at the 

 Reality which is beyond. Let us, therefore, now try and see 

 when and how this higher perception was first given to 

 humanity. 



Let us go back into the far distant past, before the frame 

 and brain of what we now call the genus homo was fully 

 developed ; he was then an animal pure and simple, conscious of 

 living but knowing neither good nor evil, there was nothing in 

 his thoughts more perfect than himself, it was the golden age 

 of innocency, a being enjoying himself in a perfect state of 

 Nature with absolute freedom from responsibility of action ; 

 but, as ages rolled on, under the great law of evolution, his brain 

 was enlai-ging and gradually being prepared for a great and 



