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688. Christ.56—See Shri Parananda, “Com-
mentaries on Matthew and John.” 
695. Direction x.57—Vide supra, “Ascension 
Day.” 
710. Steel-tired.58 
 
 
For Dunlop people did not know 
 
 
Those nineteen hundred years ago. 
723. Super-consciousness.59—The Christians 
also claim an ecstasy.  B ut they all admit,  and 
indeed boast, that it is the result of long periods 
of worry and anxiety about the safety of their 
precious souls : therefore their ecstasy is clearly 
a diseased process.  The Yogic ecstasy requires 
absolute calm and health of mind and body.  It 
is useless and dangerous under other conditions 
even to begin the most elementary practices. 
742. My Eastern Friend.60—Abdul Hamid, 
of the Fort, Colombo, on whom be peace. 
755. Heart.61— 
 
 
Heart is a trifling misquotation : 
 
 
This poem is for publication. 
810. Mind the dark dorrway there !62—This, 
like so many other (perhaps all) lines in these 
poems, is pregnant with a host 
of hidden 
meanings.  Not only is it physical, of saying 
good-bye to a friend : but mental, of the dark-
ness of metaphysics ; occult, of the 
mystical 
darkness of the Threshold 
of Initiation : and 
physiological, containing allusions to a whole 
group of phenomena, which those who have 
begun meditaiton will recognise. 
Similarly, a single word may be a mnemonic 
key to an entire line of philosophical argument. 
If the reader chooses, in short,  he will find 
the entire mass of Initiated Wisdom betw een 
the covers of this unpretending volume.