EQUALITY, PLANE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

plane from which you look down on ail as equals, or it is a Sun which from within radiâtes equally on ail." It is well known that one can see deeper beneath the surface of the sea from a balloon than from a boat ; and the expérience under discussion hère constitutes, as it were, an elevated plane of vision wherefrom ail are seen to be equal, not because from that height différences become insigmficant, but because the inner and underneath reality of each and ail is seen. To habituate one's self to this attitude, to turn the expérience into an active prindple of social conduct, is to Uve according to the " Law of Equality." Carpenter has a poem with this title ; ^ it is characteristic, nor is it difficult if the distinction be borne in mind between the superficial impermanent self and the deeper more inward self which is more social than individual in character.

Whatever 3^u appropriate to youiself now from others, by that you will be poor^ in the end ;

What you give now, the same will surely corne back to you.

If you think yourself superior to the rest, in that instant you bave proclaimed your own inf eriority ;

And he that vdU be servant of ail, helper of most, by that very ^ct becomes their lord and master.

Seek not your own life-— for that is death ;

But seek how you can best and most joyfully give your own life away — and every moming for ever fresh life shall come to you from over the hills.