For the next logical step to the states of consciousness related to the text please click on the numbers.

At each step, our feeling
5. 9, 6. 10, 11, 7. 12, 8. 13, 9. 14, 15, 10. 16, 15. 25, 16. 26, 27, 17. 28

inferred a state of greater fulfilment, because each field of higher knowledge released more energy within it.
7. 12, 8. 13, 15. 25

And then our feeling registered this increase in energy as an increase of the potential of power and of the experience of happiness.
4, 6-9, 11, 15-21