REAL PERSONALITY OR TRANSCENDENTAL EGO. 



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Thought on the Physical Plane and following them as far as we 

 can with our present knowledge towards the point where our 

 Ideals of the Good, Beautiful, and True intersect, we may reach the 

 position from which we may be able to form, although through 

 a glass darkly, even a conception of the Great Eeality, and 

 therefore of Its Offspring the Transcendental Ego, and its 

 connection with the Universe. 



As the whole of Nature is the temporary and Space-limited 

 manifestation of the Eeality, so the individual Physical Ego is 

 the manifestation in Time and Space of the True Personality, it 

 is its transcient expression and has no other use beyond this 

 life. Each Physical Ego helps or should help forward the 

 general improvement of the Pace towards perfection. Each 

 generation should come into being a step nearer to the 

 Spiritual until it can be pictured that at the final consummation 

 there will be nothing imperfect, no shadow^ left ; the full 

 complement of Spiritual Personalities being complete in the 

 Great All-Father. 



I would like now to attempt to show, to those of my hearers 

 who have followed my argument and are able to make use of 

 the conclusions we have come to, that it is quite possible for 

 some of us at times to realize how real and near to us the 

 Transcendental Ego is, and, at that moment, to get a glimpse of 

 even that which we are told "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, 

 nor hath entered into the heart of man." I would first ask you 

 to try and realize clearly in your mind that the only ab.solute 

 Eeality is the Spiritual, and that Matter, Space and Time liave 

 no existence apart from our finite senses. Those of you who 

 have been through a certain experience, to which I shall refer, 

 will have no difficulty in following me, and among even those 

 who have not felt what may be called the Mystical Sense, there 

 will be some w^ho will recognize, in what I have to say, 

 something they have felt more than once in their lives, and to 

 all these I addre.^ s the following : — 



I have already given you the best description I can formulate 

 of the growth of the Transcendental Ego, and this is therefore 

 also the mode of development of that Mystical Sense, the Eye 

 of the Soul, by means of which we can get our glimpse beyond 

 the Physical Veil. 



I will try to give my own experience of this, which will, 

 I know, wake an echo in other hearts, as 1 have met those who 

 have felt the same. From a child 1 always had an intense 

 feeling that love was the one thing above all worth having in 

 life, and as I grew older and became aware that my real self 



