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cend. He is reaching outward as his sympathies
expand, and upward, as his ideals become higher.
There is revealed to him a whole world of experience
in which the lower senses play no part: A
world of aspiration in which Self is not the goal.
The very physical bounds of self are loosening, expanding,
disappearing. Hitherto he has been conscious
of flashes of intuition ; of knowing things he
has seemingly never learned. He sees inner meanings,
and senses subtler powers.
Not only in visions
and intuitions of the day, but in dreams of the night
he has experiences beyond the bounds of sense.
He
learns the power of Thought. By conquering Self,
his Will becomes strong. By subduing passion, his
mind becomes clear. He has premonitions of coming
events; for all events and thoughts and things
exist first on higher planes, and are precipitated
thence into matter. He becomes clairaudient and
clairvoyant. He has broken the bonds of Self and
now functions on higher planes. As his senses and
organs on the physical plane made him Master there
of brutes, and of physical nature, even so on the
higher plane, the senses and organs evolved by the
same Evolutionary Law of experience and choice,
make him, on the higher plane, Master of men and
of higher Nature. All the time he is evolving organs