Part V. Additional. Chapter 30. The Case : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 30. "The Case of M. C. L. in His Own Words". Born about January, 1853. It is a difficult matter to write about myself, especially touching an experience which for four or five years has been one of the most sacredly guarded events...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 28. Richard Jefferies : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 28. "Richard Jefferies". Born November 6th, 1848; died August 14th, 1887. This case is given as that of a man who spent several years in what has been called above the twilight of Cosmic Consciousness but upon whom the sun did not...
Part I. First Words : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. 1 COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS PART I. FIRST WORDS. I. What is Cosmic Consciousness? The present volume is an attempt to answer this question; but notwithstanding it seems well to make a short prefatory statement in as plain language...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 10 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 5. "Mohammed". Born 570; died 632. This case, both in detail and ensemble, is marvellously complete. The contempt entertained towards this man by Christians is as creditable to them as is the corresponding contempt entertained...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 14 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. 83 PART IV. INSTANCES OF COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS. CHAPTER 1. "Gautama the Buddha". It is not, of course, intended to write biographies here of the men given in this volume as cases of Cosmic Consciousness, nor, equally of course, can more...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 07 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 8. "John Yepes" ("Called St. John of the Cross"). Born 1542; died 1591. John Yepes was born at Fontibere, near Avila, in old Castile, on the twenty-fourth of June, 1542. His father died when he was a child, and his mother was left...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 03 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 12. "Honor de Balzac". I. Born 1799; died 1850. "Perhaps the greatest name in the post-Revolutionary literature of France" [78: 304]. And well summed up by a still more recent writer, W. P. Trent [3: 566]: "The unexpected," he...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 13. Charles G. Finney : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. 287 CHAPTER 13. "Charles G. Finney". 1792-1875. This case is of more than usual interest from the fact that although in it occurred almost certainly, although not strongly marked, the phenomenon of the subjective light, together with...
Part Ii. Evolution And Devolution. Chapter. Part 02 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 2. On The Plane Of Self Consciousness. I. And in the first place it would be well to get a firm hold of the meaning of the words "self consciousness," upon the definition of which an excellent writer and most competent thinker...
Title Page : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS A STUDY IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN MIND By RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE, M.D. FORMERLY MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, LONDON, CANADA E.P. Dutton And Company, Inc [1901] Scanned, proofed and formatted...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 14. "Edward Carpenter". I. Was born August 29th, 1844, at Brighton, where he spent his early youth. His father came from Cornwall. He went for several years to Brighton College, and in 1864 entered Trinity Hall, p. 238 [paragraph...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 7. Roger Bacon : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. 269 CHAPTER 7. "Roger Bacon". 1214-1294 (?). Neither this nor any other man should be classed among the members of the new race because he had an extraordinary wit, for some of the greatest human intellects are clearly outside Cosmic...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 34. The Case : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 34. "The Case of Paul Tyner, in His Own Words". I was born March 7, 1860, about midnight, in the city of Cork, Ireland. My mother being Irish, of an old family, the Sarfields, one of whom is celebrated by Macaulay in his account...
Part Ii. Evolution And Devolution. Chapter. Part 03 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. 19 PART II. EVOLUTION AND DEVOLUTION. CHAPTER 1. "To Self Consciousness". It will be necessary, in the first place, for the reader of this book to have before his mind a tolerably complete idea in outline of mental evolution in all its...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 02 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 13. "Walt Whitman". I. Born 1819; died 1892. In each of these instances of so-called Cosmic Consciousness it would be proper to give a fairly exhaustive account of the external life of the man as well as of his teaching, since...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 06 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 9. "Francis Bacon". Born 1561.; died 1626. Nothing approaching to an exhaustive study of this case can be attempted here. The mere flanges of the subject have filled a moderate-sized p. 154 library, while the core of the matter...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 23. E. T : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 23. "E. T." Born 1830. Entered Cosmic Consciousness 1860, aet. thirty years. The writer has (at present) no details to give in this case and only includes it for the age of illumination.
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 12 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 3. "Paul". That the great apostle had the Cosmic Sense seems as clear and certain as that Csar was a great general. He was, in fact, "great" and an "apostle" because he had it, and for no other reason whatever. I. In his case meet...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 36. Case Of A. J. S : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 36. "Case of A. J. S." I was born on the 24th of January, 1871, in a country village, the seventh of a family of nine. I was the youngest of six girls. My father, mother, and all of us children were very musical--the girls having...
Untitled : * This is an attempted scientific study of illuminated individuals. Bucke provides three dozen very consistent examples of 'cosmic consciousness.' Some of these are the usual suspects, and others are contemporary case-histories which Bucke collected. Bucke proposed that these enlightened figures...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 08 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 7. "Bartolom Las Casas". Born 1474; died 1566. "One of the most remarkable men of the sixteenth century" [128: 206]. "Las Casas was the brightest star of this small constellation [the early Spanish-Americans]. With the eye...
A List Of Some Of The Works Quoted And Referred : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. vii A LIST OF SOME OF THE WORKS QUOTED AND REFERRED TO IN THIS VOLUME Reference numbers in brackets in the text point to book in this list and page, except in the cases of the Bible, where they indicate book, chapter and verse...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 35. The Case : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 35. "The Case of C. Y. E., in Her Own Words". I was born April 21, 1864. I was brought up a member of the Church of England, accepted its teaching and loved its services and liturgy. I believed in Christ as God Incarnate--the word...
Notice : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. v NOTICE "It will be observed that this volume is printed in three types: in the largest is set up that portion of it which was written by the editor, together with certain shorter quotations which will be indicated by inverted comm...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 29. Case Of C : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. 323 CHAPTER 29. "Case of C. M. C. in Her Own Words". It is important to clearly realize that in writing the following pages C. M. C. (and the same may be truly said of every person whose evidence is included in this volume) had no...
Part Ii. Evolution And Devolution. Part Iii : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. 60 p. 61 PART III. FROM SELF TO COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS. I. As the faculties referred to in the last division of this volume, and many more, came into existence in the race, each in its own time, when the race was ready for it, let us...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 04 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 11. "William Blake". Born 1757; died 1827. If Blake had Cosmic Consciousness the words written above as to the vastly greater scope and variety of this than of self consciousness will receive from his case illustration. The few...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 32. Case Of J : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 32 "Case of J. William Lloyd, in His Own Words". You ask for a brief statement of my life and spiritual evolution. I was born in Westfield, N. J., June 4, 1857. My parents were English, and had had but a few months' schooling...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 33. Horace Traubel : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 33. "Horace Traubel". Was born December 19, 1858, and was therefore in his thirty-first year at time of his first illumination. His experience is here given in his own words. It is all of it full of interest, but perhaps the most...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 9. Benedict Spinoza : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 9. "Benedict Spinoza". 1632-1677. Born at Amsterdam, November 24th, 1632, the son of a Portuguese Jew and a Jew himself until the age of twenty-four, when he was "solemnly cut off from the Commonwealth of Israel" [87b: 400]. He...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 18. Henry David : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 18. "Henry David Thoreau". Born July 12, 1817; died May 6, 1862. There are several reasons for suspecting Thoreau to have been a case of Cosmic Consciousness, such as his addiction to solitude, his love of mysticism...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 1. The Twilight : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. 254 p. 255 PART V. ADDITIONAL--SOME OF THEM LESSER, IMPERFECT AND DOUBTFUL INSTANCES CHAPTER 1. "The Twilight". The main purpose of this Fifth Part is to illustrate the inevitable fact that granted that there is such a mental faculty...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 4. Isaiah : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. 261 CHAPTER 4. "Isaiah". Had "the greatest of the Hebrew prophets" the Cosmic Sense I It does not seem unlikely. As Isaiah lived and wrote for thirty-nine years after his "vision" it might easily be that he was something over thirty...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 21. The Case : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 21. "The Case of H. B. in His Own Words". "My early home was one of quite narrow limitations. I did not find myself among books, though such was my desire for them that nothing else had any attractions for me. My mental activity...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 3. Gideon, Surnamed : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 3. "Gideon, Surnamed Jerubbaal". Thirteenth century B.C. And the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 26. T. S. R : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 26. "T. S. R." Born 1840. Entered Cosmic Consciousness in 1872, at the age of thirty-two years. Was a member of a Presbyterian Church in good standing. Upon illumination left the church and has had no connection with any similar...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 22. R. P. S : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 22. "R. P. S." Born 1830; died 1898. In a letter to the editor R. P. S. says: "I was about thirty when this marvellous transforming baptism came to me. To it I attribute results * immensely disproportioned to my very moderate...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 10. Colonel James : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 10. "Colonel James Gardiner". 1688-1745. Born January 10, 1688. Is said to have fought three duels before he was grown up. Entered the army young and fought with great bravery. His relations with women said to have been free, even...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 17. J. B. B : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 17. "J. B. B." J. B. B., Doctor of Medicine, born 1817. Entered into Cosmic Consciousness 1855, at the age of thirty-eight years. An informant says of him: "He is not a refined man," and he goes on: "It is one of the strange...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 19. J. B : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 19. "J. B." Born 1821. Entered Cosmic Consciousness 1859, aet. thirty-nine years. Was a Methodist and in high standing in his church. He prayed fervently for light, for assurance of salvation, etc. Seemed no use, so he ceased...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 14. Alexander Pushkin : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 14. "Alexander Pushkin". Born May 26, 1799; died January 29, 1837. If Pushkin traced the following lines after his own personal experience he was almost certainly a case of Cosmic Consciousness. Be this as it may, their...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 25. Case Of J. H. J : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 25. "Case of J. H. J." A merchant in a pretty large way of business. The advent of the Cosmic Sense--which was momentary and incomplete--made no visible change in his life, and very few of the hundreds who knew him had the least...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 31. Case Of J : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 31. "Case of J. W. W., Largely in His Own Words". He was born August 11th, 1853. The date of his illumination was January 20th, 1885. He is an architect. He has always been an earnest man, anxious to know the right and to do it...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 27. W. H. W : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 27. "W. H. W." Born 1842. Entered Cosmic Consciousness 1877, at the age of thirty-five years. Had a very strong and original mind and a wonderful memory. A gentleman who knew him writes: "He was an extraordinary conversationalist;...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 20. C. P : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 20. "C. P." Born 1822. Has been all his life a laboring man. Was, and is, esteemed as a saint and sage by every man who knew and knows him. His conversation is enlightened to an extraordinary degree. Is, of course, uneducated...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 2. Moses : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 2. "Moses". Renan tells us that the oldest documents in which Moses is mentioned are four hundred to five hundred years posterior to the date of the Exodus, at which time Moses lived, if he lived at all: "Les documents les plus...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 12. William Wordsworth : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 12. "William Wordsworth". 1770-1850. That the mind of this writer (nearly if not quite a poet) in his loftier moods attained a very close neighborhood to Cosmic Consciousness, if he did not actually enter the magic territory...
Part Ii. Evolution And Devolution. Chapter : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 3. "Devolution". As in the evolution of an individual tree some branches flourish while others fail; as in a forest some trees grow tall and stretch out wide branches while others are stunted and die out; as in the onward...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 09 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 6. "Dante". Born 1265; Died 1321. Balzac [9: 241 and 263] clearly intimates his conviction that Dante was a "Specialist," which is his name for a man who has p. 131 [paragraph continues] Cosmic Consciousness. Balzac probably knew...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 8. Blaise Pascal : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 8. "Blaise Pascal". 1623-1772. He was born on the 19th of June, 1623. As a child, boy and young man, he was exceptionally precocious--in this respect comparable to Bacon. It is said that, although his parents endeavored...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 13 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 2. "Jesus the Christ". Balzac says [5:143] that Jesus was a Specialist--that is, that he had Cosmic Consciousness. As Balzac was himself undoubtedly illumined, he would be high, if not absolute, authority upon the point. Paul...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 6. Socrates : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 6. "Socrates". Both by his moral qualities and intellectual gifts, Socrates seems to take rank with the foremost men of all history. But it would be obviously absurd to argue that because of these facts he was a case of Cosmic...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 05 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 10. "Jacob Behmen" ("called The Teutonic Theosopher"). Born 1575; died 1624. His birthplace was at Alt Seidenberg, a place about two miles distant from Grlitz, in Germany. He came of a well-to-do family, but his first employment...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 15. Ralph Waldo : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 15. "Ralph Waldo Emerson". Born May, 1803; died April, 1882. Spiritually eminent as was this great American, it does not appear that he belonged to the class of men discussed in this volume. He was perhaps as near Cosmic...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 5. The Case Of Li R : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 5. "The Case of L R". The above named, who is commonly called Lo-tsze (the old philosopher), was born about 604 B.C., in Honan, China. For part of his life, perhaps a large part, he was curator in the Royal p. 262 [paragraph...
Part Iv. Instances Of Cosmic Consciousness. Part 11 : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 4. "Plotinus". Plotinus was born A. D. 204 and died 274. Plotinus held that in order to perfect knowledge the subject and object must be united--that the intelligent agent and the thing understood... must not be in separation* [55...
Dedication From The First Edition : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. i "Dedication from the first edition" MAURICE ANDREWS BUCKE 22 November, 1868--8 December, 1899 8 December, 1900 Dear Maurice:-- A year ago to-day, in the prime of youth, of health and of strength, in an instant, by a terrible...
Part V. Additional. Part Vi. Last Words : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. 364 p. 365 PART VI. LAST WORDS. I. Many readers, before they have reached this page, will have been struck by the fact that the name of no woman is included in the list of so-called "great cases," and the names of only three in th...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 24. Case Of Ramakrishn : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], CHAPTER 24. "Case of Ramakrishna Paramahansa". We are indebted to Max Mueller and to Protap Chunder Mozoomdar for such scanty details as we have in this case. Their evidence is perhaps all the more valuable, since the first named...
Part V. Additional. Chapter 16. Alfred Tennyson : * "Cosmic Consciousness", by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901], p. 292 CHAPTER 16. "Alfred Tennyson". This poet (for though not absolutely entitled to rank in the divine order, yet he has worthily served for and must be allowed that name) passed the greater part of a long life in that region of self...