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Eve had tasted of the fruit growing on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and was straightway driven from Eden.

After a time my mother noticed that whenever I was called into the drawing-room to be presented to callers I covered my mouth with my hand, and she said: "Katie, don't do that.

It is very awkward." Here was a double grief.

I not only had a large mouth, but I was also very awkward, but with the larger grief came a larger consciousness of Self. I became very thoughtful, my mind being a ground of debate as to whether it were better to disguise the large mouth or appear very awkward. Evidently it was a choice of two evils and not a good in sight. The good was to come later as the introspection grew deeper when I looked not at the mouth or any ungraceful action, but at that which had been hidden and so far undiscovered.

Then introspection touched the subjective self and went on until it reached the inmost subjective or the true life. I have used the personal illustration to show in a way how the passage occurs and also to prove that consciousness the human consciousness of course I mean has its first awakening in the outer or objective mind, thence moving to the inner or subjective mind and finally to the inmost or spiritual Self which always moves and acts in the true life, but is not conscious of itself as so doing.