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<nowiki>*</nowiki> See Wassilief on Buddhism, pp. 97</sup>&nbsp;—&nbsp;950.

<nowiki>*</nowiki> See Wassilief on Buddhism, pp. 97&nbsp;—&nbsp;950.

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before or after they have passed like a flash through the material world&nbsp;; but we cannot cognise any such existence directly, so long as we have sense-instruments which bring only material existence into the field of our consciousness. Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached “&nbsp;reality&nbsp;;” but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya.

{{Style P-No indent|before or after they have passed like a flash through the material world&nbsp;; but we cannot cognise any such existence directly, so long as we have sense-instruments which bring only material existence into the field of our consciousness. Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached “&nbsp;reality&nbsp;;” but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya.}}