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are perceived by the Initiate, who has learned the great secret how to penetrate thus deep into the Arcana of Being."

The same authority continues: "To object to this on the ground that one is thus `cheated by Nature,' and to call it 'a delusive sensation of enjoyment which 'has no reality' is to show oneself utterly unfit to comprehend the conditions of life and being outside of our material existence. For how can the same distinction be made in Devachan --- i. e. outside of the conditions of earth-life --- between what we call a reality, and a fictitious or an artificial counterfeit of the same, in this, our world. The same principle cannot apply to the two sets of conditions. ' The spiritual soul has no substance * nor is it confined to one place with a limited horizon of perceptions around it. Therefore, whether in or out of its mortal body, it is ever distinct, and free from its limitations; and, if we call its Devanchanic experiences acheating of nature,' then we should never be allowed to call 'reality' any of those purely abstract feelings that belong entirely to, and are reflected and assimilated by, our higher soul --- such, for instance, as an ideal perception