Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION NOTICE LIST OF BOOKS QUOTED PART I. FIRST WORDS PART II. EVOLUTION AND DEVOLUTION TO SELF CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE PLANE OF SELF CONSCIOUSNESS DEVOLUTION PART III. FROM SELF TO COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS PART IV. INSTANCES OF COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS GAUTAMA THE BUDDHA JESUS THE CHRIST PAUL PLOTINUS MOHAMMED DANTE BARTOLOME LAS CASAS JOHN YEPES FRANCIS BACON JACOB BEHMEN WILLIAM BLAKE HONORE DE BALZAC WALT WHITMAN EDWARD CARPENTER PART V. ADDITIONAL-SOME OF THEM LESSER, IMPERFECT, AND DOUBTFUL INSTANCES THE TWILIGHT MOSES GIDEON ISIAH Li R SOCRATES ROGER BACON BLAISE PASCAL BENEDICT SPINOZA JAMES GARDINER SWEDENBORG WILLIAM WORDSWORTH CHARLES G. FINNEY ALEXANDER PUSHKIN RALPH WALDO EMERSON ALFRED TENNYSON J. B. B. HENRY DAVID THOREAU J. B. C. P. H. B. R. P. S. E. T. RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHANSA J. H. J. T. S. R. W. H. W. RICHARD JEFFERIES C. M. C. M. C. L. J. W. W. J. WILLIAM LLOYD HORACE TRAUBEL PAUL TYNER C. Y. E. A. J. S. PART VI. LAST WORDS

About the Author

Canadian author Richard Maurice Bucke (1837-1902) was a progressive psychiatrist who wrote numerous professional papers in addition to three book-length studies. Cosmic Consciousness is his best-known work.