an all-pervading Life-a Life that, while immanent is also transcendent, a Life and a Mind that is both within and without all things, and from which all things proceed. We are, therefore, not dependent for existence or consciousness on ourselves, but on the One who is in all, and through all, and above all. There is one Consciousness and only one. Whether we choose to name it Cosmic or Universal is of little moment.

Let me define in a more complete way what is meant by Cosmic Consciousness. We speak of the individual as having soul, mind and body, and it is all three which constitute the one individual. All over the world we find millions of people with souls, minds and bodies, none of them differing in kind, but different nations and individuals differing in degree. All of these units possess life and intelligence, but this life and intelligence differs in degree, never in kind. Some people possess greater life and greater intelligence than do others. No matter how low down in the scale of human life we may go, and no matter how high, we find that in humanity, from the highest to the lowest, all are manifesting life, feeling, and intelligence in differing degrees according to the stage of their development. Our Scriptures declare that: "He hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth." The esoteric meaning of the word blood is life. "He hath made of one life all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth." Paul has represented humanity as one great body of which each person forms a part, he states that we are members one of another. The wise men of many ages have believed in humanity, as a whole, forming the grand man of the heavens; and this grand man constitutes the sun or the universal

Christ. So that it is one Life, one Mind, that lives in all. In view of this we can better understand what Paul meant when he said: "Let the same mind be in you that dwelt in Christ," or when he referred to Jesus as being our elder brother, or, again, when he referred to Him as being the “first-fruits” of the tree of life. In the gospel according to St. John, Jesus says: "The son can do nothing of Himself save what He seeth the Father do." Again, in His statement to Nicodemus He said: "Ye must be born again," and in the first chapter of St. John we find that “new birth" designated in this way as being "not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." In view of this we can better understand the statement that God, "who is in all, and through all, and above all, worketh within you to will and to do." Cosmic Consciousness is therefore the one supreme Consciousness, Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent, in which all life is one, all power is one, all consciousness is one. In this consciousness man is a child of God; God lives in him and he lives in God. It is such conscious knowledge on the part of the individual that brings the conscious at-one-ment between God and man, between the Whole and the part. In this state a man has no will of his own, but has become one with Universal Will; has no life or intelligence of his own, but has become one with Universal Life and Universal Intelligence. Cosmic Consciousness, then, is that state of development in which Sonship is realised. "I in thee and Thou in me, that we may be made perfect in One." It is also that state wherein the individual realises that every good and every perfect gift is from God, that there is only one Giver and that He giveth to all bountifully. Man

therefore draws from the Universal not only his vital energy, but his living ideals, and everything that is necessary to perfect his life. God works through man to this end, that His inner kingdom may be established on earth, that all His children may seek after Him and find Him, may come to Him and draw from Him whatever heart and mind may desire. He is the eternal Fount which supplies our every need. All that is great, all that is beautiful in life has, at one time, by some man or men, been drawn first into this life as feeling and ideal, and later takes form in the world as expression. Some men who have entered deeper into the Cosmic Consciousness than others, were able to draw from it, in a larger way, and were consequently better able to give to the world of their heavenly possessions. The greatest composers, poets, sculptors, painters, architects, and, in fact, the greatest men in every department of life have either received in a small or a large degree according to their capacity to receive, and then have enriched the world because of such receiving. In other words, they have simply been the instruments through which the riches of the Spirit have been poured, and the measure of their giving out of their fulness to the world was the measure of their continued receptivity. Reciprocity of giving and receiving is one of life's greatest laws. "Freely thou hast received, freely give.'

Under the influence of this new consciousness the shadows of life can no longer disturb us. We have the confidence and courage of our inmost convictions. The new life has not only brought us into harmony with ourselves, but has dispelled all the things that we feared in the past. We have left death and the

grave behind. Sorrow and pain no longer affright us; we consciously know that we are one with all Life, with all Intelligence, with all Power; that we are not only a part of the Whole, but it is the Whole that is working within us to will and to do. All the discords and all the imperfect chords have ceased, and we are now in full accord with all the music and harmony of life. This constitutes that state of consciousness to which a writer some years ago prefixed the word Cosmic. When one has fully entered into this Cosmic Consciousness, he has attained to that state which the Scriptures refer to as having passed from death unto life, as having consciously realised Sonship with God. Then to such a man that which has been secret is revealed, that which has been hidden is found. Cosmic Consciousness is perhaps best illustrated by such wonderful lives as those of Krishna, Buddha, and Jesus. The world has had its countless thousands of men and women, who, while not fully entering into it, nevertheless have had glimpses of its fulness and were able to bring back from it some of its wondrous knowledge and beauty, were able to write that insight into music, and to give it form, and endow that form with the soul of music. And some others were able to chisel into the cold white marble such a warmth and a glow of life that the marble seemed a living thing, and into it they wrote a character so wonderful and so marvellous that the beholder feels as though the very soul of the sculptor had entered into the marble symbol of what a man should be-a god on earth, having dominion and power over all things. Some of this consciousness has been caught by the painter, and he has received a message from God to man, a command, as it were, to convey to the world something of divinity,

so that those looking at the painting might catch something of its spirit, something of that illumination which the painter must have felt when he painted into his picture a part of his own soul, and made the picture so great that one looking at it through the eyes of the soul can never forget it while life lasts. And, again, from the Cosmic Consciousness there came to the architect who designed the great Duomo of St. Peter's the inspiration necessary to build a cathedral that should be a true outer expression of inner beauty and power. And St. Peter's stands to-day as a monument of the divinity that lived in a man who was able to give expression to it on earth. It is said that Beethoven kept constantly on his work-table these lines found by Champollion Figeac on an Egyptian temple: "I am that which is. I am all that is, that has been, and that shall be. No mortal hand has lifted my veil. He is by Himself and it is to Him that everything owes existence."

Beethoven was, at times, a remarkable illustration of receptivity to Cosmic Consciousness. His ninth symphony is a striking example of this. Because of his deafness and irritability he was not always a fit instrument through which Cosmic Consciousness could function. But whenever he was under its influence, he produced his most wonderful and beautiful music. But among all the composers, Mozart stands preeminent as being in closest relation, from childhood up, with this Consciousness. Listening to Mozart's music is like looking into a crystal pool in which the eye can see to its greatest depths. With the first bar you feel that here is the work of a master mind. Somehow, you get the impression that he knows the end with the beginning, that he has listened to the