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The evidences of
two states of consciousness. Outline of his illumination. Noguchi--a
most remarkable instance of Illumination in early youth; Lines
expressive of an exalted state of consciousness; how it resulted in later
life. The strange case of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod:" a perfect
example of dual consciousness; the distinguishing features of the self
and the Self; the fine line of demarcation. How the writer succeeded in
living two distinct lives and the result. Remarkable contribution to
literature. A puzzling instance of phases of consciousness.

CHAPTER XV
METHODS OF ATTAINMENT: THE WAY OF ILLUMINATION
The four Oriental methods of liberation. The goal of the soul's
pilgrimage. Strange theory advanced. Revolutionary results that follow.
How to perceive the actuality of the higher Self. Gaining immortality
"In the flesh;" What Revelation has promised and its substantiation in
modern Science. The prize and the price. Some valuable Yoga
exercises to induce spiritual ecstacy. What "union with God" really
means. The "Brahmic Bliss" of the Upanashads. The new race; its
powers and privileges. "The man-god whom we await" as described by
Emerson.

THE SELF AND SYMBOL
Thou most Divine! above all women Above all men in consciousness.
Thou in thy nearness to me Hast shown me paths of love. Yea; walks
that lead from hell To the great light; where life and love Do ever reign.
Thou hast taught to me a patience To behold whatever state; However
beautiful and joyful; however ugly and sorrowful.
To know that these are--all!--but The glimmerings of the greater life--
Expressions of the infinite.
According to the finality of that moment Now to come; in the eternal

now, which thou Sweet Presence, hast awakened me to-- I see the
light--the way.
An everlasting illumination That takes me to the gate; the open door To
the house of God. There I find most priceless jewels; The key to all the
ways, That lead from Om to thee.
A mistake--an off-turn from the apparent road of right Is but the
bruising of thy temple, Calling thy Self--thy soul-- The God within;
showing thee, The nita of it all; which is but the half of me.
And as thy consciousness of the two The nita and the ita, comes to thee
A three is formed--the trinity is found.
Through thee the Deity hast spoken Uniting the two in the one;
Revealing the illusion of mortality The message of Om to the
Illumined.
--Ali Nomad.

ARGUMENT

Man is essentially a spiritual being.
The source of this spiritual Omniscience we may not, in our finite
intelligence, fully cognize, because full cognition would preclude the
possibility of finite expression.
The destiny of man is perfection.
Man perfected becomes a god.
"Only the gods are immortal," we are told.
Let us consider what this means, supposing it to be an axiom of truth.
Mortality is subject to change and death. Mortality is the manifest--the
stage upon which "man in his life plays many parts."
Immortality, is what the word says it is--godhood re-cognized in the
mortal. "Im" or, "Om"--the more general term--stands for the
Changeless. Birthless. Deathless. Unnamable Power that holds the
worlds in space, and puts intelligence into man.
Biologists, even though they were to succeed in reproducing life by
chemical processes from so-called "lifeless" (sterilized) matter, making
so high a form of manifestation as man himself, yet could never name
the power by which they accomplished it.
Always there must remain the Unknownable--the Absolute.
"Om," therefore, is the word we use to express this Omniscient,

Omnipotent and Omnipresent power.
The term "mortal" we have already defined. The compound immortal,
applied to individual man, stands for one who has made his
"at-one-ment" with Om, and who has, while still in the mortal body,
re-cognized himself as one with Om.
This is what it means to escape the "second death," to which the merely
mortal consciousness is subject.
This is the goal of every human life; this is the essence, the substance
of all religious systems and all philosophies.
The only chance for disputation among theologians and philosophers,
lies in the way of accomplishing this at-one-ment. There is not the
slightest opportunity for a difference of opinion as what they wish to
accomplish.
Admitting then, that the goal of every soul is the
same--immortality--(the mortal consciousness cognizing itself as Om),
we come to a consideration of the evidence we may find in support of
this axiom. This evidence we do not find satisfactory, in spirit
communication; in psychic experiences; in hypnotic phenomena; and
astral trips; important, and reliable as these many psychic research
phenomena are.
These are not satisfactory or convincing evidences of our at-one-ment
with Om, because they do not preclude the probability of the "second
death;" but on the contrary, they verify it.
However, aside from all these psychic phenomena,