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30 TALKS ON ^AT THE FEET O? THE MASTER " very same process over again, as it were, and make ,that ego an expression of the Monad. Whether there lies another stage of the same sort beyond, we* do not know ; but I can quite well ima- gine it to be possible that, when we attain Adeptship, when we make the ego an instrument in the hands of the Monad, we shall find opening before us a still more glorious vista. That may well be: I do not know. I do not know whether there is any end or not. A great philosopher once said : (t It is equally inconceivable that there should be an end, or that there should be no end; yet one of those must be true." Of that we know nothing. They speak of absorption into the Supreme; as to that we know nothing. We know that our consciousness widens and widens and continues to widen ; that it includes consciousness after consciousness above and beyond our own ; all this we know by direct personal ex- perience. We know that it is possible to touch the buddhic level, and that when one touches it one finds an enormous expansion of consciousness, so that besides oneself one is also other and greater people as well; one includes those consciousnesses also. But remember, you include them (or it seems that you include them) in your own consciousness. It does not seem to you that you have lost your individual- ity at all, but that you have so widened it that you are able to feel through them as well as through yourself; that is what really happens. It is the