petulant self-assertion of the relative ego.  “I” but really means GOD CONSCIOUSNESS as perfect Existence, perfect Knowledge or perfect Bliss.  It means the realization of an Infinite and Eternal Self or Individuality.  “He that has lost the self has gained the SELF”.  Here is the explanation:  this little self or “I” so long as it is attached to the PERSONALITY which is the product of the “me” consciousness is bound down to the relative plane.  It can think only through only one brain, enjoy through one body and such happiness as it gets is transitory, short-lived and impermanent because this world of relative existence is itself essentially changeable.  It is permanent only in its impermanence.  So long as the “I” thinks and while only for the benefits of its personal self, both thinking and willing are limited and not free.  But when it has succeeded in joining itself to the Spiritual mind and works for, aspires after the Larger Self—­the “I AM”—­it has to renounce or “disattach” itself from the personal self and work under the guidance of the impersonal Higher Self.  “I refuse to be contained within my hat and boots,” said Walt Whitman.  When the Vedantist says “Aham Brahmasmi”—­“I am the absolute”—­he does not mean this lower “I”.  No, no.  He is not built that way.  For him the moorings of self-consciousness are out.  He has lost all sense of his particular relative “I” and has one-d himself with the absolute “I AM”—­the impersonal, intangible, immortal, omnipotent Self of and over all.  This “I am” is Spirit or Atman.  There can be but one Individuality—­that of the Absolute.  It becomes objectively expressed in man as Cosmic Consciousness.  Subjectively it is God.  Now then you have an idea of the “I am” Consciousness.  Hold fast to it.  It is your real, Larger Self.  In the understanding and the exercise of the Will-Power the “I” or the Positive Mental Principle is the chief factor.  To use the one you must understand the other.  Will is a Soul-Power.  This “I”—­as I have explained it above—­is negative to the “I AM” or God—­both meaning the same thing.  It is positive in relation to the Higher Self.  This “I” is the future promise of the “I AM”.  It is true it shall lose itself in finding its Self, but so does the child when it grows into full manhood.  Christ was one with his Father-in-Heaven (i.e., on the spiritual plane) and therefore he could still the waves and raise the dead.  Yet just you examine the nature of Lord Christ’s Will-Force.  Think of his constant retirement into the Silence in order to obtain inspiration for his work in the objective universe.  Again, note his utter indifference to and absolute control over his personal self.  Did he care whether his body would live or die?  Did he live for the enjoyments of the flesh?  Did he “play to the gallery” and act and speak for any worldly gain or low considerations?  No!  He had forgotten the interests of the flesh in his earnest enthusiasm in the cause of the Eternal