To the mind of the old civilization this will not seem true, for it is still in the swaddling clothes of its old inheritance; in the thoughts of the past, man and God, matter and spirit, finite and infinite have been so long divorced and separated that it will be found difficult to accept the union of incense and worship and reverence in the same breath with the real, the apparent and the formed, but this is the hour for higher prophecy, and that hour when the "lion and the lamb shall lie down together." To those who are really able to read the signs of the times, human consciousness everywhere offers the greatest proof of this truth, for looking with eyes that can see, we find that every individual is in possession of eight distinct states of consciousness with which he can operate in the subjective and objective zones. There may be still greater stretches of the human mind into union with the universal which the oncoming races will discover, but that there are eight distinct levels of mind activity many know because they have touched them and know them within themselves. Some minds are active in one, some in two, some in three, and some in four, and some are more or less distinct in all. The mass man of the new civilization is awake in the _third_ and _fourth_ dimensions of his mind, and those in higher reaches are awake in the _fifth_ and _sixth_, a few are in the _seventh_ and _eighth_, but the rank and file are familiar to some degree with all these states. The first or surface mind of man is in itself only cell consciousness, touched by man's own intellect, and it is known as _instinct_, his second expression of mind is known as _reason_, the third is _emotion_ or _feeling_, and the fourth is instinct, reason and emotion blended into one, and called _intuition_. The fifth and sixth are above the plane of thought and feeling and includes them in a still higher intensification; here thinking ceases and _registration_ is the law, and here is where _revelation_ is born. The seventh and eighth are still supra reaches of man's mind, and include the union or surface consciousness with the higher states, in which the brain becomes the wireless machine, through which flashes of divine wisdom comes; this is called _Prophecy_ and _Seership_ and this is the product of the "mirror-mind." There are bodies and atmospheres to fit each transcendent state of mind, and the transcendentalist can suspend any, or all of his states of mind, one after another, and pass into direct atonement with any level with which he wishes to function; he can at will live in a new world, and speak with a new tongue, and fill his surface mind with a glory not its own, "but which it had with Him before the world was." These new states of mind in action extends man's world into the wider reaches of the universal and adds to him new levels of wisdom and power.