A NEW EXPERIENCE 8S

ones " ; intuitive expériences of amazmg range in which, for example, Wordsworth apprehended the s{nritual cantinutim which makes the varied procession and panorama of the visible universe a Unity, and in which — the gaze being more definitely inward than outward — Walt Whitman f ound solid ground for the tremendous assertion.

I am an acme of things accompUshed, and I am an encloser of things to'be ;

and Jésus for the vibrant, world-illumining exclamation,

Before Abraham was, I am.

Of the promise of this expérience Carpenter is among the prophets. It is his gospel, many* f aceted, which through thèse pages we shall hold up to the light.

Be stîll, O Soûl, and know that thou art God.^

Normally, however, we are not conscious of thèse prof ound and universal roots of being ; we do not know who we are. The reason for this has now been made clear ; it is because we habitually Uve our lives on the surface-planés which divide us from each other. In each personality there is core and there is crust, and our usual consciousness is that of the crust. We are intensely self-conscious ; but the self of which we are aware is the separated '^ me," the empirical