99/115 SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS By FRANK H. SPRAGUE

These four worlds by no means comprise the possible scope of spiritual revelation; on the contrary they suggest an inexhaustible variety of modes by which the Infinite may radiate in finite expression. Thus far in human history, but little even of the surface of life has been explored by man. He must continue to discover new modes of manifestation, as the domain of knowledge includes wider areas.

Already, in this age of discovery and inventive application, unexplored worlds are beginning to loom up, just beyond the range of his perceptive powers, only awaiting the development of new faculties through which to reveal inconceivable splendors. For acquiring knowledge outwardly, we are now dependent on a few scattered series of vibrations, each series being of very limited extent.

We can perceive light ethereal vibrations from 460 to 725 trillion per second; heat similar vibrations within another comparatively limited compass; and sound atmospheric vibrations within a very narrow range. Above, below, and between these series which stand out like scarcely recognizable oases in a vast desert, all seems void.

Yet what wealth of hidden resources these gaps imply for creatures who may have developed responsive faculties capable of perceiving vibrations at intervening rates! Even more restricted are our means of acquiring knowledge inwardly. Recent discoveries in telepathy and other fields within the vast domain of the occult,

suggest well-nigh inconceivable advantages that may be enjoyed by beings whose faculties for perceiving the correspondent vibrations of finer sentiments and emotions have been sufficiently developed. Even now, we sojourn on the borderland of an infinite realm that is waiting to be possessed by man.

“We know in part and we see in part;” but how insignificant are these occasional fragmentary gleams compared with the transcendent glory that may be experienced by beings who are capable of appreciating something of the perfect unity of life as an unbroken whole!