Notice

V

List of Books Quoted

VII

PART I.

First Words

1

PART II.

Evolution and Devolution.

1.

To Self Consciousness

19

2.

On the Plane of Self Consciousness

22

3.

Devolution

53

PART III.

From Self to Cosmic Consciousness

62

PART IV.

Instances of Cosmic Consciousness.

1.

Gautama The Buddha

83

2.

Jesus The Christ

97

3.

Paul

111

4.

Plotinus

121

5.

Mohammed

125

6.

Dante

130

7.

Bartolomé las Casas

138

8.

John Yepes

142

9.

Francis Bacon

153

10.

Jacob Behmen

180

11.

William Blake

191

12.

Honoré de Balzac

198

13.

Walt Whitman

215

14.

Edward Carpenter

237

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PART V.

Additional—Some of Them Lesser, Imperfect, and Doubtful Instances.

1.

The Twilight

255

2.

Moses

257

3.

Gideon

259

4.

Isaiah

261

5.

Lî R

261

6.

Socrates

267

7.

Roger Bacon

269

8.

Blaise Pascal

272

9.

Benedict Spinoza

276

10.

James Gardiner

282

11.

Swedenborg

284

12.

William Wordsworth

285

13.

Charles G. Finney

287

14.

Alexander Pushkin

289

15.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

290

16.

Alfred Tennyson

292

17.

J B B

294

18.

Henry David Thoreau

295

19.

J B

298

20.

C P

299

21.

H B

303

22.

R P S

308

23.

E T

311

24.

Ramakrishna Paramahansa

311

25.

J H J

315

26.

T S R

317

27.

W H W.

318

28.

Richard Jefferies

319

29.

C M C

323

30.

M C L

330

31.

J. W. W.

332

32.

J. William Lloyd

342

33.

Horace Traubel

345

34.

Paul Tyner

351

35.

C Y E

357

36.

A J S

361

PART VI.

Last Words

365