Page:From Passion to Peace - Allen - 1910.djvu/47



a man passes from the dark stage of temptation to the more enlightened stage of transmutation, he has become a saint; namely, one who perceives the need of self-purification, who understands the way of self-purification, and who has entered that way and is engaged in perfecting himself. But there comes a time in the process of transmutation when, with the decrease of evil and the accumulation of good, there dawns in the mind a new vision, a new consciousness, a new man. And when this is reached, the saint has become a sage; he has passed from the human life to the divine life. He is “born again,” and there begins for him a new round of experiences; he wields a new power; a new universe opens out before his spiritual gaze. This is the stage of Transcendence; this I call the Transcendent Life.

When there is no more consciousness