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what is called death, and to have come forth in my spiritual body, finding it more real than the physical.

This was not a dream nor a vision. It was an actual, living experience, and I was as wholly awake as I am at this moment while writing these lines.

Moreover, it was an experience which produced a change in my consciousness, so that I have never been the same since. It also changed my physical conditions. I felt like a new creature in both mind and body.

I have since discovered that these changes in consciousness take place at intervals all along the path of development. and that it is as impossible, while in an earlier state to understand a later, as it would be for one of the primitive forms of life to understand or enter into the mind of a human being. The difference is not so great possibly, but it is very great, indeed, and each advance makes one feel as though suddenly lifted into a new order of being.

The strangest thing about it all is that one may go on blindly and mistakenly, following a road which seems to lead nowhere in particular, and yet, all the while be nearing the place of a higher unfoldment. If only the purpose be earnest and sincere, he who seeks will find.

It is these states of consciousness which come later which are difficult to explain to the