LOSING AND FINDING

him ; the horizon is narrow enough, but the landscape is homely and intimate, so fair in its détails of stream and meadow and coppice and homestead, and so captivating that he were well content to remain there, and cannot think that anything could be more désirable. Then cornes the strange mystical désire — ^native to the hmnan heart — to climb. He rises, turns his back upon that dear and gentle beauty, and begins the ascent ; he lets it go ; quite literally, it seems to drop away from him ; in a few moments it is lost to sight and sound ; but when the new restingplace in the height is attained he finds to his deUght that ail that he seemed to lose is given back to him, and in grander perspective, mightier setting.

So it is with that process commonly spoken of as the Death to Self ; the self to which we are to die is the narrow delusive self, the self of which we are aware in opposition to the not-self , the self which is constantly in friction and entanglement with the external world ; this is the self we are to sacrifice and renounce ; and, as is now clearly seen, in the interests of the true Self, the whole Self. The true Self is not other than the delusive superficial self, as if to gain the first were to lose the second ; ail that we lose is the delusiveness and the perpétuai Undignified détermination by outward circumstance ; the view from the higher point includes ail the views from the lower points ; the higher happiness includes.