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has much knowledge of Reality. Let the dark background stand for negation or matter and you will see that the mind at this stage of its unfoldment has not at its command so much of the central light as it must possess when active in the wider and ever-widening ray as you trace it toward the centre.

Now, right here I wish to make an important distinction between consciousness and the thinking process. They seem at first to be one and the same, but they are not, for I can think and be conscious of myself as thinking, or I can think and not be conscious of that thinking. For instance, I may set out to give my undivided attention to a subject, and after a few moments of concentrated thought, off goes my attention to one or more extraneous subjects, and I busy myself with them until I pull myself together with a start and discover that I have strayed away from my subject.

During the interval of thinking I was not conscious of the straying, but now I know of it.

Undoubtedly there are mental operations continually going on in me of which I am not conscious, for I am a much larger being than I formerly supposed myself to be. How large, do you ask? Why, as large as Infinity itself, for I am It and It is I. We are interchangeable terms; one in essence, but dual in the sense of being expressed or unexpressed.