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Supermind in the Evolution
A New humanity would
then be a race of mental beings on the earth and in the earthly body but
delivered from its present conditions in the reign of the cosmic Ignorance
so far as to be possessed of a perfected mind, a mind of light which could
even be a subordinate action of the supermind or Truth-Consciousness and in
any case capable of the full possibilities of mind acting as a recipient of
that truth and at least a secondary action of it in thought and life. It
could even be a part of what could be described as a divine life upon earth
and at least the beginnings of an evolution in the Knowledge and no longer
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Spiritual Religion of Humanity
A
spiritual religion of humanity is the hope of the future. By this is not meant what is ordinarily
called a universal religion, a system, a thing of creed and intellectual belief
and dogma and outward rite. Mankind has
tried unity by that means; it has failed and deserved to fail, because there
can be no universal religious system, one in mental creed and vital form. The inner spirit is indeed one, but more than
any other the spiritual life insists on freedom and variation in its
self-expression and means of development.
A religion of humanity means the growing realisation that there is a
secret Spirit, a divine Reality, i
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Religion as the law of life
SINCE THE
infinite, the absolute and transcendent, the universal, the One is the secret
summit of existence and to reach the spiritual consciousness and the Divine the
ultimate goal and aim of our being and therefore of the whole development of
the individual and the collectivity in all its parts
and all its activities, reason cannot be the last and highest guide; culture,
as it is understood ordinarily, cannot be the directing light or find out the
regulating and harmonising principle of all our life and action. For reason stops short of the Divine and only
compromises with the problems of life, and culture in order to attain th
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The End of the Curve of Reason
The rational collectivist idea of
society has at first sight a powerful attraction. There is behind it a great truth, that every
society represents a collective being and in it and by it the individual lives
and he owes to it all that he can give it.
More, it is only a certain relation to the society, a certain harmony
with this greater collective self that he can find the complete use for his
many developed or developing powers and activities. Since it is a collective being, it must, one
would naturally suppose, have a discoverable collective reason and will which
should find more and more its right expression and right
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Unity in
Diversity, Law and Liberty
The social
evolution of the human race is necessarily a development of the relations
between three constant factors, individuals, communities of various sorts and
mankind. Each seeks its own fulfillment and satisfaction, but each is compelled to
develop them not independently but in relation to the others. The first natural aim of the individual must
be his own inner growth and fullness and its expression in his outer life; but
this he can only accomplish through his relations with other individuals, to the
various kinds of community religious, social, cultural and political to which
he belongs and to the idea an
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Transition from Mind to Supermind
It is not
to be supposed that the circumstances and the lines of the transition would be
the same for all, for here we enter into the domain of the Infinite: but, since
there is behind all of them the unity of a fundamental truth, the scrutiny of a
given line of ascent may be expected to throw light on the principle of all
ascending possibilities; such as scrutiny of one line is all that can be
attempted. This line is, as all must be, governed by the natural configuration
of the stair of ascent: there are in it many steps, for it is an incessant
gradation and there is no gap anywhere: but, from the point of view of the
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A Vision of Spiritual Society
It is this kingdom of God within,
the result of the finding of God not in a distant heaven but within ourselves, of which the state of society in an age of the
Truth, spiritual age, would be the result and the external figure.
Therefore
a society which was even initially spiritualised, would make the revealing and
finding of the divine Self in man the whole first aim of all its activities,
its education, its knowledge, its science, its ethics, its art, its economical
and political structure. As it was to some extent in the ancient Vedic times with the
cultural education of the higher classes, so it would be then
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Contemporary Crisis
our nature
is complex and we have to find a key to some perfect unity and fullness of its
complexity. Its first evolutionary basis
is the material life: Nature began with that and man also has to begin with it;
he has first to affirm his material and vital existence. But if he stops there, there can be for him
no evolution; his next and greater preoccupation must be to find himself as a
mental being in a material life, — both individual and social, — as perfected as
possible. This was the direction which
the Hellenic idea gave to European civilisation, and the Roman reinforced, — or
weakened, — it with the ideal of organised power: the cult of r
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Cosmic Consciousness Transcendence and Omnipresent
Reality
The Possibility
of a cosmic consciousness in humanity is coming slowly to be admitted in modern
Psychology, like the possibility of more elastic instruments of knowledge,
although still classified, even when its value and power are admitted, as a
hallucination. In the psychology of the East it has always been recognised as a
reality and the aim of our subjective progress. The essence of the passage over
to this goal is the exceeding of the limits imposed on us by the ego-sense and
at least a partaking, at most an identification with the self-k
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Supermind and Humanity
What then
would be the consequence for humanity of the descent of Supermind into our
earthly existence, its consequence for this race born into a world of
ignorance and inconscience but capable of an upward evolution of its
consciousness and an ascent into the light and power and bliss of a
spiritual being and spiritual nature? The descent into the earth-life of so
supreme a creative power as the Supermind and its truth-consciousness could
not be merely a new feature or factor added to that life or put in its front
but without any other importance or only a restricted importance carrying
with it no results profoundly