In short,
cosmic consciousness is becoming _perceived_, by a vast majority, and is
being _realized_ by not a few.
But in the immediate future of the race, we find the next step, for the
majority to be that of soul-consciousness.
Back of thought, like a guardian angel stands the desire of the soul,
stimulating and directing; back of action stands thought, as the master
directs the servant, or as the captain decides the course of the ship.
Spiritual evolution may be understood, or at least _perceived_, from a
study of physical and mental evolution. From the crude to the perfect is
the law; if this perfection of species, or of phases, could be attained
without pain, it were well. Pain comes from lack of wisdom to realize that
out of the lower the higher inevitably springs, as the butterfly springs
from the cocoon; as the flower springs from the seed; "as above so below"
is a translation of an old Sinto saying, which also bids us "trust in Kami
and keep clean."
Again it is said "to him who overcometh, will I give the inheritance.
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