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Strange though it may- appear, this septenary division and ruling seventh wave are not discernible by ordinary mental consciousness, and the inhabitants are not normally aware of them. But if one becomes absolutely still, and throws one’s mind completely open to the inherent nature of mental things, the waves are heard and seen; manifestation appears as a shoreless sea of light and sound. Closer examination shows that the waves are formed in moving matter. Minute and glowing particles compose that matter—each particle a living thing. Each atom has its note and colour, and each is singing and shining as it sweeps along in the great wave of which it is a part. Whilst studying these waves it was found necessary to keep dipping down, as it were, into physical consciousness, to grasp at the dense physical body, lest one should be swept away and lost in than. Their attraction is very great, for they seem to be part of God Himself—the veritable life-force of the Father pulsing through the vast system, which is His wondrous body. It would indeed be joy to release one’s hold of manifestation in a single form, and be merged in the great sea of the divine life. Yet the pressure and watchful power of the ego in his causal home cannot be evaded or gainsaid. The choice does not remain with the personality; the ego is the incarnation of that choice made by tile monad long ago, when first the waves began their age-long sweep through time and space. A further phenomenon which presents itself to the student is that, although human mental existence and awareness depends upon the possession of a mental body, yet there is a homogeneous mental consciousness of which all human mentality is but an expression and a part. the lower levels of the mental plane all forms are exceedingly dear cut, and are sharply divided from each other, as is the case on earth; at the higher levels, however, all these separate forms are seen to be part of a major existence, which, though it contains all forms, is itself formless and all-pervading. These mental forms of beings at many levels and in many kingdoms of Nature, are rather like designs upon a tapestry, and, although their movements and activities, internal and external, seem to the consciousness within them to be self-initiated, they are in reality but the movements of the whole mental universe, manifestations, as it were, of the thought of God. This may sound paradoxical, yet one is unable either to avoid the conclusion or to express it more clearly. In a phrase: there is only one major mentality, of which all apparently separate mentalities are an expression and a part. Map, the thinker, is a partaker of that divine thought, outside of which his thoughts have