position, he is lord of both zones. This middle zone of power and mastery
is the path of the modern transcendentalist, and the one who walks it and
lives in unification with its laws is the _modern transcendentalist_
of the new civilization. It has been written--

"_For wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be who go in thereat" because_

"_Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto
Life_."

We know today that this is true, for on the broad path of the objective
life man must pass through the law of change which destroys, that it may
create again and through which he is crowded on to seek the narrow path of
subjective senses which are built on the law of verities.

Man's first lessons are in the objective zone of mind, and he remains
positive in this zone until he masters its laws and the lessons which they
bring.

In this objective zone of mind we find the mass man of the old
civilization, he is in the _broad way_ of the surface consciousness,
and in his midst there dwells the specialized individuals who are
approaching the central zones of mind; they are called the scientist, the
physicist, the materialist, the agnostic, the mentalist, the reasoner, and
the atheist, all true and perfect for their type but all more or less
unconscious of the latent states of mind within themselves and the
universe to which they must some day respond.

As human consciousness intensifies through use, man finds himself passing