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phenomenon on the score of hysteria or hypersensitiveness, but to my mind that is not a good explanation, for while the mental condition in such an experience must be extremely sensitive, that need not of necessity mean hallucination or mental derangement. Indeed I know it does not.

Had I run across Dr. Hartmann's statement before reading "The Perfect Way" I might think the sensation of boring through the hands and feet the effect of imagination, or the knowing that it had happened in other instances, but I knew nothing of the kind. Medical students often contract the diseases about which they are studying, but this experience of mine was, so far as I then knew, wholly unprecedented, unthought of, unheard of, coming upon me as a surprise and as something for which I could not account.

It all seems simple enough to me now, for I can easily see the birth of the Christ to be the universal fact as well as the particular. I believe that there was a moment when the Christ was born in Jesus. I also believe that there is a moment when the Christ is born in each one of us and that it is really and actually a birth into a new life. When this birth occurs I think we first realize what immortal life means, for we then feel its vibrations which are quite different from those we have experienced in any previous state of consciousness.