it, when it comes upon you, you will walk in peace, knowing yourself and the realm of appearances’ and able to handle things, at the same time abiding in this peace and bliss, the Way of Jesus Christ.

The Heavenly Anaesthetic

In the closing days of Jesus’ earthly career, He walked through the sorrows and the stripe, the ignominy and the crucifixion, calm and serene as one who has taken, an anaesthetic. The earthly anaesthetic is a symbol of this super-conscious state, in which you can pass through anything, and everything and be absolutely unmoved and unhurt. But it has none of the deadening effects associated with the material anaesthetic, for you have perfect and conscious control over yourself. You are poised, peaceful and blissful--in the world, but not of it--- healing, teaching, uplifting and delivering your fellow-beings and yet not implicated in any of these things.

Those who have never heard of Cosmic Consciousness, and yet arrive there may, either through fear or ignorance, do that against which the Buddhists, in these words warn us: “Drive not back the ecstasy of contemplation.” Through being instructed about this state, you will not drive back this blissful consciousness by thinking that something is going wrong, but rather will see that you are only just entering into heaven, while yet you walk upon the earth.

The Escape From Insanity

Any one who meditates upon the beautiful, the good and the true need never fear insanity, for he