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within this field it is subject to the illusions which it accepts as real. Here disease riots, doubt and fear prevail, fleeting pleasure is followed swift by pain and loss, spurious love obtains with its heartaches and it jealous pangs. This is indeed the country in which the prodigal son found himself when, far away from the Father's house, he fed upon the husks.

When the human consciousness passes from this outer sphere into the inner state of Being it is making the return to the Father's house where plenty abounds and where hunger is unknown, but it will not seek that house until hunger grows intense and the fact is borne in upon it that the husks contain no nourishment. Not until all things fail in the far country does it return to its home.

Wherever this spark of awareness is alight, there the Ego knows itself. When it is alight in the outer field, in the space between the inner star and the outer, then the Ego is only conscious of a weak and lowly conditioned self, separate from its source of existence, but when alight in the inner field then it knows its true life and becomes cognizant of its great powers.

When consciousness enters the inner field, and takes up its position there, it does not lose its hold on the outer field, but reaches forth and commands it as an outlying territory in which