Communion in the Company of the Realized

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THE VISTA AHEAD grows more interesting.

There is coming a new and more intimate companionship with the new

and old philosophic masters: Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Plato, among

others.

What names of real charm are these!

What artificers of great Beauty are these Men!

With rare skill do They reflect the Glory of My Eternal Thought.

How greatly do They reveal to Me how much I Know!

I Recognize, in ever increasing numbers, signs of the Supreme Light.

While there are Few for Whom the Sun has risen in Its full Glory, the

number who have known the Twilight before the Sun appears above the

horizon, or have perhaps just glimpsed the Sun as Its rays barely

surmount the barrier, is much greater than I had thought. There is

also another and more mysterious class of which the members were born

with the Sun above the horizon, but the Rays were obscured by a cloud-

filled sky. For These, the Sun first rose in other lives, but for one

reason or another They have taken incarnation under obscuration. The

clouds may or may not break for Them during the current life-time. It

depends primarily upon the original purpose. It is sometimes

necessary to drive through from below in order to force new Doors

and, in such cases, the Pioneer is very apt to be one who first broke

through in some other life. Sometimes the obscuration may serve the

purpose of rest, for the Inner Life, if the Final Rest is refused, is

considerably more intense than life within the egoistic

consciousness. Emerson is one of the known examples of such an

obscuration. Dr. Bucke was not able definitely to class him as an

instance of the Awakened Consciousness because certain familiar

earmarks were lacking. The trace of the Ancient and Eternal Wisdom is

to be found strongly marked in several o£ Emerson's works, and the

obscuration easily accounts for the atypical features in his case.

 

another gem from Merrell Wolff...........bob