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in light, in life and power. Nowhere is there even the Faintest suggestion of limitation of any kind. Everything is eternally present in all its fullness. “Within me is a central heart through which light, life and power are continually outpoured; I am the heart and the life. The heart is the body—the body is the heart. I am a unit of consciousness without division or knowledge of separation. My being, which is light, is equally radiant throughout its whole existence, varying and changing only in intensity and in colour. Memory and anticipation are unknown. Past and future exist only in an infinite present. Centre and circumference, consciousness and form are one. Clairvoyant observation of the ego in his Causal body shows that within the indescribable splendour of outrushing power which is the “shining augoeides”, there is to be “seen” the ideation of a human form. Its appearance is most dearly defined at the head and shoulders. The face is a glorified expression of the physical face of the incarnated man, and the eyes are ablaze with concentrated power and intelligence. The consciousness is vividly alive, radiantly happy, and at the same time calm and serene. Changes in it appear as great flashes of light and colour. Perception, expression and action are simultaneous. Cognition is instantaneous, complete, and unlimited as regards numbers of “objects’ and ideas apprehensible at the same time; for [the ego can “converse” with any number of people at once, with equal perfection of comprehension and concentration.] There is, however, little or no sense of addressing an external form. (The life and consciousness behind all forms is contacted, not by the passage of vibrations, as in personal cognition, but by realization of unity of essence. Companionship reaches its apotheosis at the egoic level in complete fusion and mutual identification.) Philosophies, principles, and abstract verities are also comprehended instantaneously by a process of unification and identification of the whole being with the essence of the subject. (The ego knows a truth, for example, by becoming that truth, by changing momentarily into a living expression of it) When that is achieved, a great flash or explosion of light and colour occurs, and the causal body is greatly expanded; for ever after it bears the imprint of that truth and retains the power of repeating the expansion. To aid our comprehension, let us endeavour to translate all this into terms of form, using the ego of an advanced student of occultism as an example. Imagine a central focus of consciousness surrounded by a shining aura, consisting of