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remote, and it requires time for him to see things in their true relations to each other and to himself.

But he keeps on looking toward that which he desires to see, and in time he sees it correctly; he sees it with the understanding.

It is just so with the inward seeing. If you turn your eyes toward the inner Reality, though you may only feel it vaguely to be there, you will in time see clearly, understandingly. What is it you see with, after all? Is it the physical eye? No, indeed! That is only a bridge over which sensations walk into your consciousness, and so loosely put up a structure is it that all the finest sensations fall through it before they reach you. Helmholtz once said that if any manufacturer sent him an optical instrument so poorly adapted to its ends as the eye, he should return it as practically of little use.

There is something behind the eye which does the seeing in spite of the physical imperfection of the eye itself. This something supplies more than we realize in filling in the detail of every image thrown upon the retina. This something can see independently of the eye; absolutely without its intervention. It can look straight to the heart of a flower and know more about it in one instant than it can learn from all the sensations coming in over the bridge. Afterward,