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SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES
Dr. Bucke's
Views, {now passed on.}
Some passages from Bucke,s
book is well worth quoting
here: "In contact with the flux of cosmic consciousness ail reti-
gions known and named today
will be melted down. The human
soul will be revolutionised. Religion will absolutely dominate
the race. It will not
depend on tradition. It will be believed and
disbelieved. It will not be a part of life, belonging to certain
hours,
times and occasions. It will not be in sacred books nor in
the mouths of priests. It will not dwell in churches and meetings
and
forms and days. Its life will not be in prayers, hymns nor in
discourses. It will not depend on special revelations, on
the
words of gods who came down to teach, nor on any Bible or Bi-
bles. it will have no mission to save men from their
sins nor to
secure them entrance to heaven. It will not teach a future im-
mortality nor future glories, for immortality
and all glory exist
in the here and now.
"The evidence
of immortality will live in every heart as
sight in every eye. Doubt of God and of etenal life will be as
impossible
as is now doubt of existence; the evidence of each
will be same. Religion will govern every minute of every day of
all
life. Churches, priests, forms, creeds, prayers, all agents, all
intermediaries between the individual men and God will
be per-
manently replaced by direct unmistakable intercourse. Sin will
no longer exist nor will salvation be desired.
Men will not worry
about death or a future, about the kingdom of heaven, about
what may come with and after the cessation
of the life of the
present body. Each soul will feel and know itself to be immor-
tal, will feel and know that the entire
universe with all its good
and with all its beauty is for it and belongs to it for ever. The
world peopled by men possessing
Cosmic Consciousness will
be as far removed from the world of today as this from the world
as it was before the advent
of self-consciousness. This new race
is in the act of being born from us and in the near future will
occupy and possess
the earth."
From the book entitled "Cosmic Consciousness".
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