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of the material man will be transcended and the powers of the spiritual man will be released. By their aid, his vision may be telescopic or microscopic, may pass beyond the range of any external instrument, however powerful, however delicate. He may enlarge the atom, or examine the smallest detail of the sister planets of the earth. He may study all things, passing from external vision to a blending of his mind with the Mind which created him and them, and therefore know them from within. Distance will cease to limit him, and he will destroy the illusion of size. From the quiet of his own study he may explore both the surface and the interior of the globe, may range the aerial spaces, visit sun, moon, and stars. With this interior vision the hidden processes of Nature may be observed in all Her kingdoms; by it, the veil which separates the living from the dead may be drawn aside, and the regions of the underworld, the abodes of the blessed, and the egoic home of man may be explored. “This is the next step, the immediate future in the evolution of human consciousness and its organs of cognition. The will and the mind of man must be united, in order to effect the unfolding of the latest faculties and the quickening of the organs in the brain, through which they will be expressed. In this direction the efforts of scientist, philosopher, teacher, statesman, and priest must be turned. With his inner powers awakened, each, in his own field, may pursue knowledge and gain wisdom, so that his labours may be spiritually inspired, and a fairer day dawn on the horizon of the human race. “A new era will be born in which the faculties of the inner mind of man will be awakened and expressed through the newly-developed powers of his brain. This inner mind is the core of his being—the heart, from which flow the life streams which vivify external man. The outer mind is but a shell, or husk, enclosing precious seed; the shell must be broken, the husk be laid aside, ere the seed can grow into the plant. “Within this life-centre are blended the human and divine; it is the real man, the immortal principle, which persists throughout the ages, the undying inspirer of his many lives, the single light which casts a thousand shadows into the impermanent worlds of thought, of feeling, and of action. Each shadow is an earthly mail, pursues an earthly life, and vanishes. With the passing of the centuries the shadows become less dense, as the mind which forms and governs their shape and density becomes more and more illumined by the light which is behind.