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“The centre of man’s being occupies a region of his consciousness one stage beyond his mental principle. To reach it, therefore, he must pass beyond the limitations of the deductive and analytical into the inductive and synthetic aspect of his intellect. When that higher level has been reached he must, by practice, learn to dwell therein habitually, for this is his true home; in the principle in which he dwells therein he is immortal; neither time nor space can bind him; nor can external force of any kind disturb the seclusion in which, treading the path of knowledge, his researches and experiments will be pursued. In his earthly body he is human and governed by the laws of human and terrestrial life; in the Augoiedes he is divine and incapable of error, as of sin; being divine he will study from the point of view of the creator and designer of the universe, instead of from that of a separated portion of the great design. “The first step, therefore, is to find the way from the human to the divine, from the mortal to the immortal, from the separated self to the one Self, from the canvas of life to the heart and mind of the great Artist, there to see His vision of the picture which He paints. By meditation, the aspirant must gain access to the synthetic aspect of his mind, become familiar with that interior region and learn to function there with certainty and ease. “The base from which he will begin the voyage of discovery is the lower mind, which must be trained! to instant obedience to the will; it must be robbed of all initiative, be recognized as an instrument, and employed by the consciousness as an external piece of apparatus; lifeless save when he gives it life; powerless apart from his will. He must learn to point it with accuracy and unwavering concentration in any desired direction, whether downwards towards the material worlds, or upwards into the spiritual; train it to become still, so that, mirror-like, it may record with perfect accuracy that which falls upon it and reflect it into the special organs of the brain, by which alone the knowledge of the invisible worlds may reach the earthly man. “Before the eye within the brain may see, or inner car may hear, their vibratory rates must be raised by purity of life, of food, of action, and of thought. The scientist of the coming age cannot neglect the ancient teaching of religion concerning the culture of the body and the soul. He must learn to make of mind, of feeling, and of brain a single instrument of perfect tone. The votaries who would worship at the shrine of knowledge must lay aside all earthly pleasures