be true and clean, must be well controlled and well trained—you must hold it still and steady.

The Christ-Door, the Nothing

“I am the door," said the Master. A door is useful as an entrance, through being nothing. We commonly call that which closes up, “the doer,” but the door is the empty space; and a door, to be perfect, must be unobstructed--an unobstructed entrance. So, when the Chiist says, "I am the door,’ he is refer­ring to that power of being nothing.

When you are perfectly still, you feel the nothingness; you are not thinking; you cannot even feel your body. There are certain of you that have experienced this lightness when there was a loss of the sense of being a body, of being a personality, and then came the great cosmic consciousness. You entered the universal. You did not lose consciousness. You gained the great consciousness, beside which the other seems trivial. If you could be perfectly still as to your human thinking, then the great divine consciousness would be your thinking and your life forever.

It was so with Tennyson. He could enter into cosmic consciousness by centering himself upon his own name and losing all thought of the little self. He entered into the great Idea for which his name stands. He saw only the great immortal self, and he describes it as losing all consciousness of being a body or a personality, a little man among things. It was an

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