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of itself as the Center stance around which revolves the circumference of circumstance.
When this condition of consciousness of himself as Spirit, is reached, then Man has come the Soul has reached that condition pictured by the ancients as Nirvana, or Heaven. This is the condition of individuality, and is found only when Soul is conscious of its Mastery, because it is free from all animal conditions. Neither death, resurrection nor reincarnation are necessary. Neither can they bring the condition. It comes alone through the unfolding of consciousness into that state where the sense of Being is so complete that all consideration of limitations, or of self, is lost in the enjoyment of expression. Tennyson had glimpses of that state, as have saints and sages of all ages, and also modern psychics and mental scientists. He describes it "as a kind of waking trance. All at once," he says, "out of the intensity of consciousness of individuality the individuality itself seems to dissolve and fade away into boundless Being. This is not a confused state, but the clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, the wisest of the wisest, utterly beyond words, where death were almost a laughable impossibility, and the loss of personality seeming the only true life."
Civilization is the record of the cumulative unfoldment of the race toward this birth from the animal into that condition as permanent which Tennyson described as occasionally his. As the sandstone strata has impression of wave and foot print, so civilization in statute and literature, in temple and statue, keeps the wave marks of the Soul's progress from animal, through intermediate forms, until this new century, when it is to be emancipated through the new birth.
This unfoldment, this pushing Power, has ever been
