| That “keynote” is a direct
                       manifestation of the Higher Self which uses it to impress and govern the Personality it has
                       created. But alas, part of its life has been infused into the material side of its being,
                       which has thus obtained a certain will of its own and only too often are the two sides of
                       our nature at war. At last there comes a time when the spirit is too weary to strive
                       with the recalcitrant flesh, when “the voice of the silence”
                       ceases. The earthly nourishment we may seek to give, will not avail to
                       sustain a form when this harmonious sound, this“word from
                       heaven” no longer reverberates through the empty void of the celestial
                       archetype,[pg 100]for “man lives not by bread alone,” but by
                       the WORD, and the last sound-vibration of the “keynote” is
                       the death-knell of the physical body. In this world we are compelled to investigate and to study a
                       thing before we know about it, and although the facilities for gaining information are in
                       some respects much greater in the Desire World, a certain amount of investigation is
                       necessary nevertheless to acquire knowledge. In the World of Thought, on the contrary, it is
                       different. When we wish to know about any certain thing there, and we turn our attention
                       thereto, then that thing speaks to us, as it were. The sound it emits at once gives us a
                       most luminous comprehension of every phase of its nature. We attain to a realization of its
                       past history; the whole story of its unfoldment is laid bare and we seem to have lived
                       through all of those experiences together with the thing we are investigating. Were it not for one enormous difficulty, the story thus obtained
                       would be exceedingly valuable. But all this information, this life-picture, flows in upon us
                       with an enormous rapidity in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, so that it has neither
                       beginning nor end,[pg 101]for, as said, in the World of Thought, all is one great NOW, Time does not
                       exist. Therefore, when we want to use the archetypal information in the
                       Physical World, we must disentangle and arrange it in chronological order with beginning and
                       ending before it becomes intelligible to beings living in a realm where Time is a prime
                       factor. That rearrangement is a most difficult task as all words are coined with relation to
                       the three dimensions of space and the evanescent unit of time, the fleeting moment, hence
                       much of that information remains unavailable. |