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we come upon states of consciousness with which we are familiar. It is only in this sense that the term recognition can be used with reference to our evolution in consciousness. To recognize is to re-cognize or know again, and recognition is therefore that act of the mind by which it knows again something previously known, but for a time absent from thought.

Running at right angles with the double line of destiny extending into the ray in the diagram before us, you will observe cross lines. These are intended to divide the space in the ray into sections, each representing a state of consciousness.

As the God-life flows out from the centre it actualizes itself in the section nearest the centre producing the highest type of existence, a divine being far above our present conception.

Then the life passes out into the next section, and to the next, until it reaches the end of the ray. The number of these sections in the diagram is merely arbitrary. I do not intend to imply a definite number. I simply wish to show what I believe to be a fact, that you and I and all individuals have passed through states of consciousness on the outgoing line of destiny through which we are again passing on the ingoing line. As we approach each state again it is like the hearing of a beautiful but partly forgotten song, the song of Divinity, stirring