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what then becomes of delusion, for him who
hasknowntheunity?" That senseof aone-
nessatthe heart of things is the testimonyof
the spiritual consciousness, andonly as that is
realisedisitpossible that the spiritual lifeshall
manifest. Thetechnicalnames-bywhichwe,
asTheosophists,markoutthespirit-matternot
at all. They are drawn from the Samskrit,
which for millennia has been in the habit of
havingdefinitenamesforeverystageof human
and other consciousness; but this one markof
unity isthe one onwhichwe mayrest as the
sign of the spiritual nature. And so again it
is written in an old Eastern book, that "the
manwhoseesthe One Self ineverything,and
allthingsintheSelf,heseeth,verily,heseeth."
Andallelseisblindness. Thesenseofsepara-
tion,whilenecessaryforevolutionisfundament-
ally a mistake. The separateness is onlylike
the branchthatgrows out ofa trunk, and the
unityof the life ofthe treepasses into every
branch and makes them allaone-ness; andit
is the consciousness of that one-ness which is
theconsciousnessof thespirit.
Nowin Christendom the sense of one-ness
has been personified in the Christ; the first
stage-where thereis still the Christ and the
Father-is where the walls Eire blended, "not
