XVI. CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGES selves and not-selves. — The metaphysical nature and the genesis of the organs of sense and action. — The metaphysic of the sense- media, ether, air, &c. — The significance of concentric involucra, sheaths, upadhis, bodies, of the Jiva, with special reference to cognition. — Nucleus and nucleolus. — Synthe- sis of the pseudo-infinity of planes. — The method of the synthesis, by triplets of planes or worlds. — The interpretation of Tribhu- vanam. — Why scriptural statements are capable of many interpretations, all equally true. — "As above so below." — The distinction between inner and outer, ideal and real, thought and thing. — Illustration. — How and why this distinction. — The metaphysical meaning of memory. — Individual participation in universal omniscience. — An illustration. — Latent and patent. - - The meaning of ' ideality.' — Illustrations. — Individuality, a ' present ' which includes a ' before ' and an 'after'. — The metaphysical significance of the Sukshma-Sharira. — The relation of subtler to denser planes of matter, e.g., of ether to gas, gas to water, &c., similar to the relation of Pratyag-atma toMula-prakriti. — Words having universal as well as special and local signifi- cance. — Illustrations. — Corollaries. — Appa- rently disconnected planes found to be graded together from higher standpoints. — The dimen- sions of space. — The expansion of conscious- ness.— The meaning of Yoga 261 — 305