mystic eye toward human faces. Because of this manner of attention did Solomon weep so loudly his retainers trembled. Sanity and soundness are the characteristics of the mind of those who do not project their prehensile vision toward objects that gratify the five outer senses. They who see toward the Heights are invulnerable to honor or contempt, praise or dispraise. Their probity, sincerity and courage lapse not.

"For that thou seest, man,
That too become thou must;
God if thou seest God,
Dust if thou seest dust."

With closed eyes, still let the gaze be heavenward; there on the fair unspeakable Heights is the home whence we all came hitherward to view the ways of destruction:

"Thou turnest man to (see) destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men." -- Psalm of Moses.

To look upward with the mystic eye is to start on the saving Tao. "Look unto Me, and be ye saved -- I will turn away your captivity from before your eyes -- when ye turn unto Me seeking My face," declared the two great prophets, Isaiah and Jeremiah.

"With the flash of one hurried glance I attained to the vision of that which Is. And Thou didst not give me any peace till Thou wast manifest to the eye of my soul," cried St. Augustine of Tagaste, in one of his illuminated moments.

The farther toward the celestial zenith we send the limitless eye, the deeper is our assurance of our own divine origin and transcendent Selfhood. For truly the Highest is the Nearest, the most distant yet most present, and we are in His image.