Without the light of understanding, which is a spiritual quality, words
themselves are meaningless. When the mind becomes Illumined the spirit of
the word is clear and where before the meaning was clouded, or perhaps
altogether obscured, there comes to the Illumined One a depth of
comprehension undreamed of by the merely sense-conscious person.
If we consider the recorded instances of Illumination found among
Occidentals, we will find that such extreme intensity of effort as that
which is reported of Sri Ramakrishna, and other Oriental sages, does not
appear.
It would seem that the late Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke of Toronto, Canada,
was the first in this country to present a specific classification of what
he termed the "new" consciousness, and to describe in some detail, he
experience of himself and others, notably Walt Whitman.
Dr. Bucke's first public exposition of these experiences was made at a
congress of the British Medical Association in Montreal, Canada, in
September of the year 1897. Dr.
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