(4) Read what we have said in the “Advanced Course” about Force or Energy, shading into Mind-substance which is its parent.  Realize that Mind is back of all this great exhibition of Energy and Force that you have been considering.  Then will you be ready to consider the Oneness of Mind.

(5) Read what we have said in the “Advanced Lessons” about Mind-substance.  Realize that there is a great world of Mind-substance, or an Universal Mind, which is at the disposal of the Ego.  All Thought is the product of the Ego’s use of this Mind-substance, its tool and instrument.  Realize that this Ocean of Mind is entire and Whole, and that the Ego may draw freely from it.  Realize that You have this great ocean of Mind at your command, when you unfold sufficiently to use it.  Realize that Mind is back of and underneath all of the world of form and names and action, and that in that sense:  “All is Mind,” although still higher in the scale than even Mind are You, the Real Self, the Ego, the Manifestation of the Absolute.

(6) Realize your identity with and relationship to All of Life.  Look around you at Life in all its forms, from the lowest to the highest, all being exhibitions of the great principle of Life in operation along different stages of The Path.  Scorn not the humblest forms, but look behind the form and see the reality—­Life.  Feel yourself a part of the great Universal Life.  Let your thought sink to the depths of the ocean, and realize your kinship with the Life back of the forms dwelling there.  Do not confound the forms (often hideous from your personal point of view) with the principle behind them.  Look at the plant-life, and the animal life, and seek to see behind the veil of form into the real Life behind and underneath the form.  Learn to feel your Life throbbing and thrilling with the Life Principle in these other forms, and in the forms of those of your own race.  Gaze into the starry skies and see there the numerous suns and worlds, all peopled with life in some of its myriad forms, and feel your kinship to it.  If you can grasp this thought and consciousness, you will find yourself at-one-ment with those whirling worlds, and, instead of feeling small and insignificant by comparison, you will be conscious of an expansion of Self, until you feel that in those circling worlds is a part of yourself—­that You are there also, while standing upon the Earth—­that you are akin to all parts of the Universe—­nay, more, that they are as much your home as is the spot upon which you are standing.  You will find sweeping upon you a sense of consciousness that the Universe is your home—­not merely a part of it, as you had previously thought.  You will experience a sense of greatness, and broadness and grandness such as you have never dreamed of.  You will begin to realize at least a part of your Divine inheritance, and to know indeed that you are a Child of the Infinite, the very essence of your Divine Parent being in the fibres of your being, At such times of realization one becomes conscious of what lies before the soul in its upward path, and how small the greatest prizes that Earth has to offer are when compared to some of these things before the soul, as seen by the eyes of the Spiritual Mind in moments of clear vision.