The soul's conscious evolution

• The subjective, tribal immediacy of the heathen, acknowledging the absolute as mystery, is replaced by the objective, individual reflection of the pagan which annuls immediacy and subjectivity and denies the absolute. These two evolving forms of consciousness, perceiving only the physical universe, reach a measure of their fulfillment in the spiritual consciousness of the mature soul which understands the absolute transcendentally as its own being.