In the course of a few more milleniums there should be born
from the present human race, a higher type of man, possessing this higher
type of consciousness. This new race, as it may well be called, would
occupy toward us, a position such as that occupied by us toward the simple
conscious 'alulus homo.' The advent of this higher, better and happier
race, would simply justify the long agony of its birth through countless
ages of our past. And it is the first article of my belief, some of the
grounds for which I have endeavored to lay before you, that a new race is
in course of evolution."
At a subsequent date, having given the subject further consideration and
having collected data corroborative of his former observations, Dr. Bucke
said:
"I have, in the last three years, collected twenty-three cases of this
so-called cosmic consciousness. In each case the onset or incoming of the
new faculty is always sudden, instantaneous. Among the unusual feelings the
mind experiences, is a sudden sense of being immersed in flame or in a
brilliant light.
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