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possess in itself absolute knowledge—knowledge of all things—the “why
and wherefore” of everything is recognized as being contained within itself.
The sensation cannot be described, even faintly. It is so far above anything
that the human mind has ever experienced that there is simply no words
with which to tell that which has been felt and known. Everything seems
made plain—it is not a sense of an increased ability to reason, deduce,
classify, or determine—the soul simply knows. The feeling may last but a
fraction of a second of time—one loses all sense of time and space during
the experience—but the subsequent intense feeling of regret over the
great thing that has slipped away from the consciousness can scarcely be
imagined by one who has not experienced it. The only thing that enables
the mind to bear the loss is the certainty that some time—some where—
the experience will be repeated, and that certainty makes existence “worth
while.” It is a foretaste of what is before the soul.
One of the principal things indelibly impressed upon the mind by this
glimpse of the higher consciousness is the knowledge—the certainty—that
Life pervades everything—that the Universe is filled with life, and is not
a dead thing. Life and Intelligence is seen to fill everything. Eternal Life is
sensed. Infinity is grasped. And the words “Eternal” and “Infinite,” ever after
have distinct and real meanings when thought of, although the meaning
cannot be explained to others.
Another sensation is that of perfect Love for all of Life—this feeling
also transcends any feeling of love ever before experienced. The feeling
of Fearlessness possesses one during the experience—perhaps it would
be better to say that one is not conscious of Fear—there seems to be no
reason for it, and it slips away from one. One does not even think of Fear
during the experience, and only realizes that he was entirely free from it
when he afterwards recalls some of his sensations. The feeling of knowledge,
certainty, trust and confidence that possesses one, leaves no room for Fear.
Another sensation is that that something which we might style “the
consciousness of Sin” has slipped from one. The conception of “Goodness”