The toll you pay is not to the Divine Self within, but to the "keepers of the threshold," that guard the entrance to the dwelling place of the Illuminati. Earthly lodges and brotherhoods are symbols of the higher initiations. There is a common mistake in the idea that the invisible states of consciousness are chaotic, or radically different from the visible. "As below, so above, and as above so below" is an aphorism constantly held before the eyes of the would-be initiate. Each of whom, must interpret and know it for himself. If the student finds the Raja Yoga sutras difficult of comprehension or of practice let him meditate upon the following mantrams: I know myself to be above the false concepts which assail the personal self that I _appear_ to be. I am united with the All-seeing All-knowing Consciousness. I abide in the consciousness of the Indestructibility and Omniscience of Being. I rest secure and content in the integrity of Cosmic Law which shall lead my soul unto its own, guaranteeing immortal love. I unite myself with that Power that makes for righteousness. Therefore nothing shall dismay or defeat me, because I am at-one with the limitless areas of spiritual consciousness. My mind is the dynamic center through which my soul manifests the Love which illumines the world. Only good can come to the world through me. Much that is called Mental Science, New Thought and Christian Science has for its aim and ideal, avoidance of all that does not make for personal well-being, and worldly success. Avoid this ideal; distrust this motive. Be ever willing to sacrifice the personal self to the Real Self, _if need be_. If the ideal is truly the desire for _illumination_, and not for self-gratification, the mind will soon learn to distinguish between the lesser and the greater. Have you longed for perfect, satisfying _human_ love? You shall have it plussed a thousand fold in immortal spiritual union with _your_ god. SUMMARY. In the foregoing chapters we have set forth only a few of the facts and instances which the inquirer will find, if he but seek, of the reality of a supra-conscious faculty, no less actual, than are the faculties of the sense-conscious human, which type forms the average of the race. This faculty, or rather we should say _these faculties_--because they find expression in many ways, through avenues correlative to the physical senses--prove the existence of a realm of consciousness, far above the planes of the mortal or sense-conscious man, and transcending the region known as the astral and psychic areas of consciousness. All who have reported their experiences in contacting this illimitable region unite in the essential points of experience, namely: The experience is indescribable. It confers an unshakable conviction of immortality. It discloses the fact that we are now living in this supra-conscious realm; that it is not something which we acquire after death; it _is_ not _to be_.