He acts, he sees, he
feels through his _inner being_. The abstractive _thinks_. The instinctive
simply _acts_. Hence three degrees for man. As an instinctive he is below
the level; as an abstractive he attains it; as a specialist he rises above
it. Specialism opens to man his true career; the Infinite dawns upon
him--he catches a glimpse of his destiny."
The merely sense-conscious man is the man-animal; the abstractive man is
the average man and woman in the world to-day--the human who is evolving
out of the mental into the spiritual consciousness. The specialist is the
cosmic conscious one, the one who "catches a glimpse of his destiny."
Balzac, in company with all who attain cosmic consciousness, had a great
capacity for suffering; and this soul-loneliness became crystalized into
spiritual wisdom, which he expressed in the words and in the manner most
likely to be accepted by the world.
How else can that divine union to which we are heirs and for which we are
either blindly, consciously, or supra-consciously, striving, be described
and exploited without danger of defilement and degeneracy, save and except
by the phrase "unity with God"?
All mystics have found it necessary to veil the "secret of secrets," lest
the unworthy (because _unready_) defile it with his gaze, even as the
sinful devotee prostrates himself hiding his face, while the priest raises
the chalice containing the holy eucharist in the ceremony of the mass.
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