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Cosmic Consciousness

Richard Maurice Bucke

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1. Page 71. Devolution 47 geries of faculties it is inevitable that we should meet with constant
2. Page 71. ther) by full sets of intermediary specimens. One man can lift a thousand pounds, ano
3. Page 72. 48 Cosmic Consciousness ning down at once back into chaos. The hopelessness of this c
4. Page 72. r formed and more fragile emotions and concepts, and especially for the later formed
5. Page 73. Devolution 49 It has been said that the large percentage of insanity in America and E
6. Page 75. PART III. FROM SELF TO COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS. I. As the faculties referred to in the l
7. Page 75. etter understood as we advance. Either Gautama himself, or some one of his early disc
8. Page 76. 52 Cosmic Consciousness is defined as “the state to which the Buddhist saint is to as
9. Page 76. cally as a dis- tinct person that the world for three hundred years has taken him at
10. Page 77. From Self to Cosmic Consciousness •53 For aspirations dim at first possessed Him only
11. Page 78. 54 - Cosmic Consciousness But in its stead was all the winning grace And sweetness th
12. Page 78. years ; in three, thirty-two years ; in one, thirty-three years ; in two, thirty-four
13. Page 79. From Self to Cosmic Consciousness 55 Evidence will be given as the cases are treated
14. Page 79. Consciousness, Self Con- sciousness and Cosmic Consciousness as each occupying a plan
15. Page 80. 56 Cosmic Consciousness men having Cosmic Consciousness, they would vary both in the
16. Page 80. acon, Jacob Behmen, William Blake, Balzac, Walt Whitman. From Gautama to Dante we cou
17. Page 81. From Self to Cosmic Consciousness 57 be remembered that the thirteen “ great cases ”
18. Page 81. easily might) from accident or disease during the war, even although at that time thr
19. Page 82. 58 Cosmic Consciousness cannot decide between these two, still less can we between ei
20. Page 82. st as firmly as do actual facts. True or not true, each person who has the experience
21. Page 83. From Self to Cosmic Consciousness 59 those of mental alienation, these last being dis
22. Page 83. ed at the tree and were asked half an hour afterwards to draw or describe it the thre
23. Page 84. 6o Cosmic Consciousness we gave him the gospel ; and we placed in the hearts of those
24. Page 84. ing. All these being granted, and the man having reached the age necessary to bring h
25. Page 85. From Self to Cosmic Consciousness 6i surance, triumph, “ salvation,” The last word is
26. Page 85. ey are in reality specks of relative death in an infinite ocean of life. He sees that
27. Page 86. 62 Cosmic Consciousness not reported to him, he BEHELD them. He saw the root of all m
28. Page 86. had been hidden into clear view. h. The previous character of the man who enters the
29. Page 87. From Self to Cosmic Consciousness 63 appearance by great joy, but at times (that is,
30. Page 87. es on enormously greater capacity both for learning and initi- ating. XI. The paralle
31. Page 88. 64 Cosmic Consciousness the time) by every healthy, well-constituted young or middle-
32. Page 88. has ; remember the worth that Paul ascribes to “ Christ,” and how he was caught up in
33. Page 89. From Self to Cosmic Consciousness 6s “singing joy unending,” Above all, bear in mind
34. Page 89. t, does not tally and cannot express the Cosmic Sense—or, if at all, only in so far a
35. Page 90. 66 Cosmic Consciousness c. The intellectual illumination. d. The sense of immortality
36. Page 90. ew world which they enter. The marvel is that they all see the new world for what it
37. Page 92. 68 Cosmic Consciousness mental position that he has to-day, and there would be as muc
38. Page 93. PART IV. INSTANCES OF COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS. Chapter i. Gautama the Buddha. It is not,
39. Page 94. 70 Cosmic Consciousness II. For our present purpose it is important to fix the age of
40. Page 94. habitants, and moreover God himself, is in man ” [97 : 39]. IV. In the Maha Vagga [16
41. Page 95. Gautama the Buddha 71 tion of these churches, and is therefore probably genuine and f
42. Page 95. ; enable him to comprehend by his own heart the hearts of Parallel Passages, * “Were
43. Page 96. 72 Cosmic Consciousness forty, fifty, a hundred, a thousand or a hundred thousand bir
44. Page 96. 3 : 7 et seq.] . It is needless to quote parallel passages from Jesus, they are so nu
45. Page 97. Gautama the Buddha 73 their backs upon their wealth (as Gautama or E. C.) or simply d
46. Page 97. he hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice ’’ [193 : 342] . VIII. In the
47. Page 98. 74 Cosmic Consciousness IX. The specific reasons for believing that Gautama was a cas
48. Page 98. to be a Brahmana (to have attained Nirvana—Cosmic Consciousness), must already have a
49. Page 99. Guatama the Buddha 75 X. If, now, Guatama had Cosmic Consciousness, and if, as seems
50. Page 99. m pride, and free from appetites. Such a one who does his duty is tolerant like the e
51. Page 100. ?6 Cosmic Consciousness is being produced ; their hearts are free from the longing af
52. Page 100. ng up of individual in universal existence. dition is reached. Nirvana is therefore t
53. Page 101. Gautama the Buddha 77 must be the effect of Nirvana is plain ; for that state of mind
54. Page 101. thly things, the sin of the heart. If there is no oil in the lamp it will go out. tho
55. Page 101. as divine as it would ; saw that nothing ever was or could be greater than simple see
56. Page 102. 78 Cosmic Consciousness Death, utter death, with no new life to follow, is then the r
57. Page 102. nown of the books of the northern Buddhist Canon, that it is difficult to discover th
58. Page 102. i dans le Nirvana, a ceux qui sont entierement delivr6s de la succession incessante d
59. Page 103. Gautama the Buddha 79 hensive and valuable work on Chinese est affranchi de la douleu
60. Page 103. ter separation from the world [156 : 22] . Men who have no riches, who live on recogn
61. Page 104. 8o Cosmic Consciousness of gifts ; contentedness the best riches ; trust is the best
62. Page 104. ditation is near unto Nirvana [156 : 87]. As soon as he has considered the origin and
63. Page 105. Chapter 2. Jesus the Christ. Balzac says [5 : 143] that Jesus was a Specialist—that i
64. Page 105. 0, and Jesus must have been born while Herod was still reigning. Dr. Geikie points ou
65. Page 106. 82 Cosmic Consciousness place in him ; that whereas up to a certain age he was very m
66. Page 106. or even the year. This is seen, indeed, in the varying opinions on all these points i
67. Page 107. Jesus the Christ 83 instantaneous, sudden, and much as if a veil were with one sharp
68. Page 107. me? Or what [14 : 4 : i-io] ? Jesus quickly decided, as these men all decide, that th
69. Page 108. 84 Cosmic Consciousness ably. “What dost thou want with exertion?” he said to him. Ma
70. Page 108. red before them; and his garments became glistening, exceeding white; so as no fuller
71. Page 109. Jesus the Christ 85 me upon the great mountain of Tabor” [P09 : 63]. Baur and Hilgenf
72. Page 109. nd as his words were carried down by tradition (for some short time at least), and as
73. Page 110. 86 Cosmic Consciousness in his teaching, the passages in which he so referred to it w
74. Page 110. and the west and shall * A proud man is hardly likely to acquire the Cosmic Sense. -j
75. Page 111. Jesus the Christ 87 he that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he
76. Page 111. greater than he. From the days of John the kingdom of heaven had suffered violence (m
77. Page 112. 88 Cosmic Consciousness In that hour came the desciples unto “This face,” says Whitma
78. Page 112. due [14 : 18 : 23-34]. * It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than f
79. Page 112. g raised far above the common self conscious mind. It has absolute charity with the l
80. Page 113. Jesus the Christ 89 equal unto us, which have borne the burden of the day and the sco
81. Page 113. his ser- vants and entreated them shamefully, and killed them. But the king was wroth
82. Page 113. the feast without these it is easily imag- inable that he would be torn to pieces. si
83. Page 114. 90 Cosmic Consciousness * The formal, soulless religion of the scribes and Pharisees
84. Page 114. to us. But he answered and said ; Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch, there
85. Page 114. have gained other five talents. His lord said unto him : Well done, good and faithful
86. Page 115. Jesus the Christ 91 didst not sow, and gathering were thou didst not scatter : And I
87. Page 115. ervation ; neither shall they say, Lo, here! or there, for lo, the kingdom of God is
88. Page 116. 92 Cosmic Consciousness womb and be born ? Jesus answered : Verily, verily I say unto
89. Page 117. Chapter 3. Paul. That the great apostle had the Cosmic Sense seems as clear and certa
90. Page 117. his personality, have let fall a single expression from which the date of Paul’s birt
91. Page 118. 94 Cosmic Consciousness written—that is, A. D. 6i [144 : 357-8]—he would be between s
92. Page 118. e elsewhere [21 : 12 : 1-7] a description, cer- tainly given by himself, of certain s
93. Page 119. Paul 95 version,” the oncoming of Cosmic Consciousness in his case—we are told [i8 :
94. Page 119. way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and
95. Page 120. 96 Cosmic Consciousness *“ Christ” is Paul’s name for Cosmic sciousness. Con- I must
96. Page 120. ord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
97. Page 121. Paul 97 up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. So that the law has be
98. Page 121. led by [5 ; 100]. Balzac: “The second existence' He speaks from the standpoint of the
99. Page 122. 98 Cosmic Consciousness with milk, not with meat ; for ye were not yet able to bear i
100. Page 122. ame spirit may be traced in every case—but see especially [193 : 273] : “ Give me the