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these things. The Egyptians often used the figure of a cat for representing the moon, and some mythologists have said that there was a cat behind the moon in their conception; but that was not the idea, The idea was that the cat can see in the night, and the moon is the source from which we obtain light at night. The idea of spirit and matter comming into conjunction has been represented by a cross. That does not mean that matter is always in a perpendingcular and spirit in a horizontal position, but only that this figure expresses the idea. So we have hundreds and thousands, of symbols which inay not be described by any words. The description which would be given of different things is just according to the idea that we derive through experience of our senses. As the soul itself is not a thing which can be perceived by the senses, no material description could be used for it. We say that the soul passes into Nirvana, but we express this idea in sentences, so that we may have at least sone idea of the condition which is called Nirvana though it cannot be described in language, We say that that condition is infinite existence, infinite knowledge, infinite bliss, and we must bear in mind that infinite conditions mean not material Sense-conditions having no end. There cannot be two infinities; there cannot be two things existing at the same time at all points, if we regard merely space; but infinite power does not require space; it is not a material ihing. Materil power may
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