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organs. Wordsworth says in his beautiful "Ode to Im-
mortality'' :
"Birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life star,
Has elsewhere had its setting and cometh from afar.
Not in entire forgetfulness nor yet in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God who is
our home.
"Heaven lies about us in our infancy,
The shades of prison house begin to close
Around the growing boy ;
But still he sees the light and whence it flows
He feels it in his joy.
"The youth who daily further from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's priest,
And by the vision splendid is on his way attended.
At last the man perceives it fade away
And melt into the light of common day."
During the life of a person, the Inner Worlds are closest
to him in childhood's years, as Wordsworth says, for that is
life's morning, and so it is with us ; w rhen we waken in the
morning we are in closer touch with the Spirit Worlds than
at any other time of day, and then it is easiest to return to
them. Therefore, the pupil should commence his exercises
the very moment he wakens, without allowing his mind to
rest upon anything else. He should be particular to relax
his body perfectly so that no muscle is tense and fix his
mind upon a high ideal or upon the first five verses of the
Gospel according to St. John, either sentence by sentence,