ABSTRACT
The author have made the preceding digest of current philosophy in the hope of familiarizing its mental spectres, and of authenticating if not justifying the halting discomfiture of even the most cultured patients of the anaesthetic revelation. The animal has no formal or consecutive thought, probably, but neither, so far as author has gathered, has the anaesthetic patient, save as an informal memory that baffles recollection. The Anaesthetic Revelation is the Initiation of Man into the Immemorial Mystery of the Open Secret of Being, revealed as the Inevitable Vortex of Continuity. The revelation is of sanity at its utmost tension and interest, realizing at once the effort and the fatuous incongruity and impossibility of self-vision. Nevertheless all their advices from the anaesthetic field and especially such as that of Xenas Clark show that sanity at its highest tension not only inheres in but evolves by a curiosity and effort for self-knowledge.
