Freedom Talks, number 2 | Page 9

in this communion with deeper laws
he attains a supra-power, he walks his human pathway in human form,
but he manipulates his surface life with the power born of his
supra-wisdom.
The modern transcendentalists form the corner-stones of the new
civilization. "For the new age will come quickly to its birth when this
His world, will know itself divine" and in this new civilization the mass
man will have for his surface consciousness, the deep subtle union of
both zones, and the specialized teacher, leader and messenger of this
new age, will forge ahead on the great white way of prophecy and
seership which is born from the union of the finite and infinite mind.
To the mind of the old civilization this will not seem true, for it is still
in the swaddling clothes of its old inheritance; in the thoughts of the
past, man and God, matter and spirit, finite and infinite have been so
long divorced and separated that it will be found difficult to accept the
union of incense and worship and reverence in the same breath with the
real, the apparent and the formed, but this is the hour for higher
prophecy, and that hour when the "lion and the lamb shall lie down
together."
To those who are really able to read the signs of the times, human
consciousness everywhere offers the greatest proof of this truth, for
looking with eyes that can see, we find that every individual is in
possession of eight distinct states of consciousness with which he can

operate in the subjective and objective zones.
There may be still greater stretches of the human mind into union with
the universal which the oncoming races will discover, but that there are
eight distinct levels of mind activity many know because they have
touched them and know them within themselves.
Some minds are active in one, some in two, some in three, and some in
four, and some are more or less distinct in all.
The mass man of the new civilization is awake in the third and fourth
dimensions of his mind, and those in higher reaches are awake in the
fifth and _sixth_, a few are in the seventh and _eighth_, but the rank
and file are familiar to some degree with all these states.
The first or surface mind of man is in itself only cell consciousness,
touched by man's own intellect, and it is known as _instinct_, his
second expression of mind is known as _reason_, the third is emotion
or _feeling_, and the fourth is instinct, reason and emotion blended into
one, and called intuition. The fifth and sixth are above the plane of
thought and feeling and includes them in a still higher intensification;
here thinking ceases and registration is the law, and here is where
revelation is born. The seventh and eighth are still supra reaches of
man's mind, and include the union or surface consciousness with the
higher states, in which the brain becomes the wireless machine, through
which flashes of divine wisdom comes; this is called Prophecy and
Seership and this is the product of the "mirror-mind."
There are bodies and atmospheres to fit each transcendent state of mind,
and the transcendentalist can suspend any, or all of his states of mind,
one after another, and pass into direct atonement with any level with
which he wishes to function; he can at will live in a new world, and
speak with a new tongue, and fill his surface mind with a glory not its
own, "but which it had with Him before the world was."
These new states of mind in action extends man's world into the wider
reaches of the universal and adds to him new levels of wisdom and
power.
There are reaches of intelligence far below and beyond the common
intelligence as the microscope and the telescope have shown, and at the
fourth and fifth dimension of consciousness man dispenses with all
material aids and uses the adjustments of his own being. He has found
the eyes, the cars, and the understanding of the supra-self, and by

suspending his surface mind through concentration and meditation he
can enter any sphere of thought at will and be in the land of
clairvoyance, clairaudience, and in the astral and atmospherian, or pass
farther out and register in his surface brain the wonders and laws of
etherian, and celestial worlds. He is at one with the world of the
sensitive, the impressionist and the medium, and in the deeper states of
vision he can see and read the memory tablets of the universe. In the
higher registrations he becomes cosmo-voyant and cosmo-audient, he
can see and hear through space and through ethers as the common eye
looks through air. These are not special gifts from