IN a sense this is a peculiar book. When it is first taken up, we may be struck not only by the title, but also by the fact that the persons mentioned as having the "cosmic consciousness" are almost the same persons, and pretty much in the same order. But after a little more careful reading, we find that Mr. Mclvor Tyndall, who is the "Ali Nomad" in this case, here gives us the results of his study of the previous book; and that we have here the ideas of the earlier volume rather more carefully formulated which to the rationalistic student affords a sense of pleasure, even where he does not entirely coincide with the book and its teachings. Turning to the chapter on Swedenborg, to see what our author has made of the Doctor's brief quotation from the "Encyclopedia Britannica" and his briefer comment, we find that there has been some thought given,- rather more than by the Doctor, whose ardor and admiration of Whitman crowded other personalities from the printed page. But, as is usual with the cursory and surface student of Swedenborg. Mr. Tyndall was led by the dominant thought in his own mind to find confirmation of that dominant thought in Swedenborg.

This is interesting as a matter of psychologic pathology in the diagnosis of a writer's mind; but it is not attended with very satisfactory results in the line of the study itself. "Ali Nomad" is intensely interested in the rather abstruse question of bi-sexuality, which he thinks of as applying to Deity, to humanity, to the future perfection of the race, and to the forgotten antiquities of the race; and he finds in Swedenborg's books, especially in some of his visions, material that seems to confirm him in his idea, presumably certain statements concerning angels and the matter of the sex of angels. But more careful students of the Great Seer have read very different ideas into the same statements, and would be not at all pleased with the outline of the idea as found in this book. The fact that in vision a man-angel and a woman-angel appear at a distance as one person does not admit of the peculiar interpretation given by Mr. Tyndall, any more than the further fact that at a distance angels of the higher heavens in vision appear as babes, makes them babes. The injection of spatial ideas and of material thought into the sublime philosophy of Swedenborg is always the one necessary step into the ridiculous. But in other parts of the book the thought to be unfolded is dignifiedly and adequately set forth; and the book can be recommended for careful reading. It is well for students of Swedenborg to see and realize his "Grand Man" more or less adequately translated into the term "Cosmic Consciousness.

" - The New-Church Review , Volume 22.