Nor should we speak of cosmic consciousness as an acquisition, but rather
as a _realization_, since the consciousness _is_, at all times. It always
has been, it will always be. Our relation to it changes, as we develop from
the sense conscious to the self-conscious state and finally to what we term
the "cosmic" conscious state. This latter must of necessity have been as
yet only imperfectly realized, even by those of the Illuminati, who are
known to the world as avatars and saviours.
Several instances of the possession of cosmic consciousness by children,
are personally known to the writer. A well-known woman writer in America
thus describes a succession of experiences in what were evidently
conditions of cosmic consciousness, although as she said, she did not
until many years later realize what had taken place.
Like Lord Alfred Tennyson, who tells of inducing in himself a state of
spiritual ecstasy or liberation, by repeatedly intoning his own name, this
lady acquired the habit of repeating in wonder and awe the name by which
she was called in the household, which was an abbreviation of her baptismal
name.
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