Freedom Talks, number 2 | Page 8

moves and has being in both zones,
uniting the laws of the two kingdoms into a new zone of consciousness,
then using the laws of both, he passes at will to the very edge of matter,
and back to the very center of the cosmic mind; standing here in life's
master position, he is lord of both zones. This middle zone of power
and mastery is the path of the modern transcendentalist, and the one
who walks it and lives in unification with its laws is the modern
transcendentalist of the new civilization. It has been written--
"_For wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be who go in thereat" because_
"_Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto Life_."
We know today that this is true, for on the broad path of the objective
life man must pass through the law of change which destroys, that it
may create again and through which he is crowded on to seek the
narrow path of subjective senses which are built on the law of verities.
Man's first lessons are in the objective zone of mind, and he remains
positive in this zone until he masters its laws and the lessons which
they bring.
In this objective zone of mind we find the mass man of the old
civilization, he is in the broad way of the surface consciousness, and in
his midst there dwells the specialized individuals who are approaching

the central zones of mind; they are called the scientist, the physicist, the
materialist, the agnostic, the mentalist, the reasoner, and the atheist, all
true and perfect for their type but all more or less unconscious of the
latent states of mind within themselves and the universe to which they
must some day respond.
As human consciousness intensifies through use, man finds himself
passing on through his surface zones to the concealed states of mind
within himself, "the narrow way," and slowly, almost unconsciously at
first, he begins manifesting the law of these zones. In these states of
mind we find the philosopher, the idealist, the emotionalist, the
psychist, the sensitive, the intuitionist, the revelator, the
transcendentalist and the seer.
Watching race evolution we see that the day of surface consciousness
and its power is waning only as it is controlled and manipulated
through the subjective states of man's mind. The hour for subjective
research and subjective introspection is at hand,--men have mastered
the external world and its laws, and are now following the cosmic urge
which is pushing them toward the center and away from the apparent
to the absolute laws of life.
The external evolution of form is complete for this hour; men go down
into the bowels of the earth, they sail the seas, they mount the air on
wings, and the external world has seen "the son of man coming in
clouds of glory" and now the eternal man must have his hour, and come
in "trailing robes of power and brightness," to pour new revelation
through the external world and its laws.
Books, paintings, pictures, science, music have all had their day in
external exaltation, and now the attention of man is mounting higher
and turning inward; the study of the surface and sub-consciousness has
been transferred, and while part of the world's eyes are yet peering
through the microscope at the _sub-life_ and plenty are looking at the
laws of life around them, the transcendentalist with these truths locked
fast in his mind, is turning to the undiscovered states within himself,
and is everywhere launching out into the unfathomed states of the
supra-mind of man.
Man has evolved like a planet through the stone age of mind and today
with the planet in the vibratory zone of water and air he has risen with
it into the transcendent states of his own being.

Many transcendentalists are living so naturally in the beginning
manifestations of the supra-mind that they hardly recognize them as
uncommon and the world is becoming peopled with a race of
supra-men and supra-women who are using the subtle laws of the
transcendentalists of the past, but not using them _alone_, or in _hidden
cloisters_, or through separate states of living, but using them as simple
human attributes of their own mind, and using them in the common
marts of the surface life with more real understanding than did the
olden transcendentalist in his specialized separated environment,
assisted by secluded study and special opportunities.
The modern transcendentalist is a post graduate of the surface
consciousness, and uses it as simply a wireless machine with which he
registers his deeper perceptions, and with it links himself and his
revelation naturally to the natural world. He stands in natural
communion with both zones, and