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Richard Maurice Bucke's

Cosmic Consciousness

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Self and Symbol - Argument - The New Birth / What It Is - Man's Relations to God and His Fellow Men - Areas of Consciousness - Self-ness / Selflessness - Instances of Illumnination and its After Effects - Examples of Cosmic Consciousness - Moses, the Law-Giver - Gautama, the Compassionate - Jesus of Nazareth - Paul of Tarsus - Mohammed - Emanuel Swedenborg - Emerson, Tolstoi, Balzac - Tolstoi - Balzac - Illumination as Expressed In the Poetical Temperament - Methods of Attainment: The Way of Illumination - Contents -

taught the same fundamental and simple truths, as witness the following:

Do as you would be done by.-- Persian.
Do not that to a neighbor which you would take ill from him.-- Grecian.
What you would not wish done to yourself, do not unto others.-- Chinese.
One should seek for others the happiness one desires for oneself.-- Buddhist.
He sought for others the good he desired for himself. Let him pass on.-- Egyptian.
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them.-- Christian.
Let none of you treat his brother in a way he himself would dislike to be treated.-- Mohammedan.
The true rule in life is to guard and do by the things of others as they do by their own.-- Hindu.
The law imprinted on the hearts of all men is to love the members of society as themselves.-- Roman.
Whatsoever you do not wish your neighbor to do to you, do not unto him. This is the whole law. The rest is a mere exposition of it.-- Jewish.

While it is probable that Jesus gave no directions or methods of attainment, yet the records of his sayings give the clue to the character of his instruction to those of his students who were

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