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was akin to the Great Spirit, I at certain times of elation, or 

 what might be called a kind of ecstacy, had an overpowering- 

 sense of longing for union with the Eeality, an intense love and 

 craving to become one with the All-loving. When analyzed 

 later in life this was recognized as similar in kind, though 

 different in degree, with the feeling which, when in the country 

 surrounded by charming scenery, wild flowers, the depths of a 

 forest glade or even the gentle splash of a mountain stream, 

 makes one always want to open one's arms wide to embrace and 

 hold fast the beautiful in Nature, as though one's Physical Ego, 

 wooed by the Beautiful, which is the sensuous (not sensual) 

 expression of the Spiritual, longed to become one with the 

 Physical, as the Personality or Transcendental Ego craves to 

 become one with the Eeality. It is the same intense feeling 

 which makes a lover, looking into the eyes of his beloved, long 

 to become united in the perfection of loving and knowing, to be 

 one with that being in whom he has discovered a likeness akin 

 to the highest ideal of which he himself is capable of forming 

 a conception. As in heaven, so on earth the Physical Ego, 

 though only a Shadow, has in its sphere the same fundamental 

 characteristic craving as the Transcendental Personality has for 

 that which is akin to it, and it is this wonderful love that, as 

 the old adage says, makes the world go round. It is the most 

 powerful incentive on earth and is implanted in our natures for 

 the o'ood and furtherance of the Pace ; it is, in fact, the mani- 

 festation, on the material plane, of that craving of the Inner-self 

 for union with, and being perfected in loving and knowing that 

 Infinite love of which it is itself the likeness. If we can realize 

 that everything on the Physical plane is a shadow, symbol, or 

 manifestation, of that which is in the Transcendental, the Mystical 

 Sense, through contemplating these as symbols, enables us at 

 certain times, though, alas, too seldom and of too fleeting a 

 character, to get beyond the Physical. Those of my hearers who 

 have been there will know how impossible it is to describe in 

 direct words which would carry any meaning, either the path by 

 which the experience is gained or a true account of the experi- 

 ence itself ; but I will try and I think I may be able to lead, by 

 indirect inductive suggestion, to a view of even these difficult 

 subjects, by using the knowledge we have already gained in our 

 examination. If an artist were required to draw a representa- 

 tion of the Omniscient transcendental self, budding out new forms 

 of thought in response to the conscientious efforts and the 

 providing of suitable clothing, by the Physical Ego, he would be 

 obliged to make use of symbolic forms, and I want to make it 



