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The Law is for All
It appears very essential to describe this vision as well as is 
possible, considering the difficulty of language, and the fact 
that the phenomena involve logical contradictions, the condi­
tions of consciousness being other than those obtaining 
normally.
The vision developed gradually. It was repeated on so 
many occasions that I am unable to say at what period it may 
be called complete. The beginning, however, is clear enough 
in my memory.
I was on a retirement in a cottage overlooking Lake 
Pasquaney in New Hampshire. I lost consciousness of every­
thing but an universal space in which were innumerable 
bright points, and I realized this as a physical representation 
of the Universe, in what I may call its essential structure. 
I exclaimed: “Nothingness, with twinkles!” I concentrated 
upon this vision, with the result that the void space which 
had been the principal element of it diminished in impor­
tance; space appeared to be ablaze, yet the radiant points 
were not confused, and I thereupon completed my sentence 
with the exclamation “But what Twinkles!”
The next stage of this vision led to an identification of the 
blazing points with the stars of the firmament, with ideas, 
souls, etc. I perceived also that each star was connected by a 
ray of light with each other star. In the world of ideas, each 
thought possessed a necessary relation with each other 
thought; each such relation is of course a thought in itself; 
each such ray is itself a star. It is here that logical difficulty 
first presents itself. The seer has a direct perception of infinite 
series. Logically, therefore, it would appear as if the entire 
space must be filled up with a homogeneous blaze of light. 
This however is not the case. The space is completely full; yet 
the monads which fill it are perfectly distinct. The ordinary 
reader might well exclaim that such statements exhibit symp­
toms of mental confusion. The subject demands more than 
cursory examination. I can do no more than refer the critic to 
the Hon. Bertrand Russell’s Introduction to Mathematical 
Philosophy, where the above position is thoroughly justified, 
as also certain positions which follow. At the time I had not 
read this book; and I regard it as a striking proof of the value 
of mystical attainment, that its results should have led a mind 
such as mine, whose mathematical training was of the most 
elementary character, to the immediate consciousness of 
some of the most profound and important mathematical