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In philosophical studies, one hears about the 'unities of consciousness' as distinguished from the separateness, the unrelatedness which characterizes the apparent universe. But it must be remembered that the individual consciousness itself may be only partially unified. Schizophrenia is nothing more than a hybrid word referring to disjointed, un unified condition of consciousness. schizophrenic condition, one is unlikely to realize the idea of a unitary Creator. This condition, to the degree that it exists, is a contradiction to the quality of unity; and one cannot realize in the universe a quality which cannot be discovered within oneself. By reverse logic, however, the person who achieves unity in his own consciousness, through effective use of his powers of memory, reason, and understanding, finds thereby his first and clearest outlines of the idea of God; and thereafter, everything in the universe becomes suggestive of God.

A community of religious interests within a group would naturally include those who were already in sympathy with religious values, as it would also naturally exclude those who took no interest in such values. The basic sympathy, however unreasoned, for the idea of God has to occur spontaneously within the individual. It is communicable only to those who already have the spiritual soil in which this idea can take root and grow. These conditions seem to be basic to any sound social expression of religious convictions. From this point on, reason must enter the picture if religious experience is to grow beyond its first emotional, irrational persuasions into ideas which can actually explain human nature and its environments. There is, per se, something wrong with religious ideas which cannot explain the actualities of our experience, just as there is, per se, something wrong with bodies of derived knowledge whose premises or statements are in consistent with the central ideas of religion. Our religious, social, and scientific ideas even though they never be totally related cannot rationally be in contradition as to their major assumptions.

Stereotypes of language, symbol, or ceremonial spell failure for any effort to approach religious values in a progressive, original manner. In religion, the idea of God is the sole constant; all else, including our own personalities, is His creativeness and growth, and the endless changes of relationship which creation and growth en tail. Stereotypes in religion are, in fact, a flat denial of the very principle supposed to be operative in religious ideals and practices. No type of thought should be so free from stereotypes as religious thought. Every new sect or cult reflects the instinctive effort of perto shake loose from traditional stereotypes in the

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