COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESSThe Man-God Whom We AwaitbyALI NOMAD1915CONTENTSCHAPTER ITHE NEW BIRTH; WHAT IT IS; INSTANCES DESCRIBEDThe religions and philosophies of the Orient and the Occident compared;their chief difference; The mistaken idea of death. Cosmic Consciousnessnot common in the Orient. Why? What the earnest disciple strives for. TheReal and the unreal. Buddha's agonized yearnings; why he was moved by themwith such irresistible power; the ultimate victory. The identity of TheAbsolute; The Oriental teachings; "The Spiritual Maxims of BrotherLawrence;" The seemingly miraculous power of the Oriental initiate; doeshe really "talk" to birds and animals? How they learn to know and read "theheart of the world." The inner temples throughout Japan. The strangeexperience of a Zen (a Holy Order of Japan), student-priest in attaining_mukti_. The key to Realization. An address by Manikyavasayar, one of thegreat Tamil saints of Southern India. The Hindu conception of CosmicConsciousness. The Japanese idea of the state. The Buddhist "Life-saving"monasteries; how the priests extend their consciousness to immeasurabledistances at will. The last incarnation of God in India. His marvelousinsight. The urge of the spiritual yearning for the "Voice of the Mother."His twelve years of struggle. His final illumination. The unutterable blisspictured in his own words. What the Persian mystics allusion to "union withthe Beloved" signifies; its exoteric and its esoteric meaning. The "Way ofthe Gods." The chief difference between the message of Jesus and that ofother holy men. The famous "Song of Solomon" and the differentinterpretations; a new version. A French writer's evident glimpses of thenew birth. Man's relation to the universe.CHAPTER II.MAN'S RELATION TO GOD AND TO HIS FELLOW-MEN....