CONSCIOUSNESS— FIRST STAGE

Our bodies are " the race-mind made visible," and within each of us, as the root-fact of our personality, is the race-Ego, the aeonial creator of the body, and the potentiality of ail future créations.

The primai being, in which ail thoughts of necessity inhere, which underlies ail thoughts, and contains myriads yet unexpressed, is in us. It is there, and accessible to our consciousness. When we reach to it we reach the source of ail Power.^

This examination of the conception and process of Création leads us to the conclusion that there is somewhere in the secrets of our personalities an " Immortal Self " with which we may identify ourselves, and §o become conscious partakers in the etemal ever-proceeding créative act.

Upon this same fact we converge when we interrogate consciousness itself. For we find that there are " three stages or degrees of consciousness."

The first is that in which the knower, the knowledge, and the thing known are still undifferentiated. This is the characteristic consciousness of animais ; it embraces the gamut between sentience and instinct. Carpenter would explain the phenomena of instinct in animais in terms of this non-difïerentiation.

Their knowledge is, as it were, embedded in the great living intelligent whole (of the world), and therefore