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Bucke described this state of consciousness a subject that seemed to him at that time to be a new one in the following words: "But of infinitely more importance than telepathy, and so-called spiritualism no matter what explanation we give of these, or what their future is destined to be is the final act here touched upon.
Bucke, his biographer, thinks it was a special inspiration, something analogous to Paul's conversion, a sudden opening of what the doctor calls "cosmic consciousness." He lost what little ambition he ever had for money-making, and permitted good business opportunities to pass unheeded.
But there I remember, I thought my selfe in most danger, for there was one that brought to the Master of the house, a side of a fat Bucke for a present, which being hanged behind the kitchin doore, not far from the ground, was cleane eaten up by a gray hound, that came in. The Cooke when he saw the Venison devoured, lamented and wept pitifully.
Am somewhat easier and freer to-day and the last three days sit up most of the time read and write, and receive my visitors. Have now been in-doors sick for seven months half of the time bad, bad, vertigo, indigestion, bladder, gastric, head trouble, inertia Dr. Bucke, Dr. Osler, Drs. Wharton and Walsh now Edward Wilkins my help and nurse. A fine, splendid, sunny day.
For an instant I thought of fire, an immense conflagration somewhere close by in that great city. The next moment I knew that the fire was within myself." While Dr. Bucke is unquestionably right in his estimate of the fact that "a new race is being born," as he expresses it, there can scarcely be any question of individual age, in which the new consciousness may be expected.
And because supper time approached nigh, when as he should be reproved of too much negligence, he tooke a halter to hang himselfe: but his wife perceiving whereabout he went, ran incontinently to him, and taking the halter in both her hands, stopped him of his purpose, saying, O husband, are you out of your writs? pray husband follow my counsel, cary this strange Asse out into some secret place and kill him, which done, cut off one of his sides, and sawce it well like the side of the Bucke, and set it before your Master.
Good Master Bucke tarried with Master Thorpe at Henricus, recruiting his strength, and Jeremy Sparrow preached in his pulpit, slept in his chamber, and worked in his garden.
Bucke, in the ample and charming garden and lawns of the asylum. June 6. Plain boards, whitewash, plenty of cheap chairs, no ornament or color, yet all scrupulously clean and sweet. Some three hundred persons present, mostly patients.
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