Physical maturity can have nothing whatever to do with the matter, since
the acquisition of supra-consciousness is a matter of the maturity of the
soul. This completement of the cycle of the soul's pilgrimage and service,
may come at any age, as far as the physical body is concerned. Indeed,
science records no definite age at which even physical maturity is
invariably reached, although there is an approximate age.
A case recently widely commented upon was that of a child of six years who
showed every symptom of senility or old age, which could hardly be possible
without having passed what we call "maturity."
Again, we find that some persons retain every indication of youth, both of
mind and body, long after their contemporaries have reached and passed
middle age. It is coming more and more to be admitted that age is relative,
and that what we know as the relative is the effect of mental operations.
Mental operations are subject to change--to enlargement.
The advent of cosmic consciousness is, therefore, not subject to what we
know as time, as applied to physical development.
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