VII. COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS
Cosmic consciousness is the last state of consciousness, but it is not the end, only the beginning. Before those who have reached this state lies the absolute; expanding and expanding to infinity. This state is limitless, timeless, spaceless. Here the whole is perceived, the Supreme Being, the source of all that is. Intuitive knowledge of divine order, above and beyond the intellectual faculty of comprehension is granted. Here is absolute intelligence, absolute beauty, absolute love, absolute law, forever flowing, flowing throughout all creation and all things, the seen and the unseen. That which was, that which is, that which shall be. God: Our Father which art in heaven, Cosmic Consciousness, not without but within.
Many have received this divine gift while they walked upon this earth. Each received gifts of intelligence in the field to which his mind was bent: Socrates' gift was true philosophy. Moses was the writer of Divine Law. Jesus taught the Divine principle of man, the individual "I AM." Beethoven: "I just wrote what I heard." Edison: "not I; God gave it to me." Aristotle, Emerson, Walt Whitman, Browning, Burbank. Dr. Ernest S. Holmes, author of The Science of the Mind: "The only God man shall ever find is the God within his own soul; all is already given." And Dr. Albert Einstein wrote: "I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world." He believed in a universe of order and harmony. He also wrote that the greatest joy that can come to man, is the mystical union between God and man. These men and millions down through the ages knew. Many times they knew without any process of reasoning. God in man; they know they are not the knower, only the known. The finite intelligence and infinite intelligence becomes one.
Mankind and our world are not drifting in space or orbiting around a sun. We are a part of some great something, call it what you like. God, Deity, Mind, Intelligence, it always was, it always will be. The world is rotating daily about its axis at the rate of 1000 miles an hour, and its annual revolution about the sun is at the rate of 20 miles a second; the entire solar system is moving within the local star system at the rate of 13 miles a second, the local star system is moving within the Milky Way at the rate of 200 miles a second, and the whole Milky Way is drifting with respect to the remote external galaxies at the rate of 100 miles a second, all in different directions. Man is moving and he is moving fast. He is It, and It is him, physically and mentally.
I AM THAT I AM
I am the far-off snow-capped mountain.
I am the deer that runs the winding trail.
I am you that walks through its majestic trees.
I am the whisper you hear in its leaves.
I am you and you are I.
I am the wave you see at the ocean.
I am the tide you see subside.
I am the salty spray you taste upon your lips.
I am the wind you feel through your hair.
I am you and you are I.
I am the sand that tickles you feet.
I am the sea foam that flows ankle high.
I am the sea gull you hear nearby.
I am you and you are I.
I am the person who you are hugging.
I am the hand which you are holding.
I am you and you are I.
I am the passion that comes with surprise.
I am the sigh that comes from inside.
I am you and you are I.
