OBJECT "To raise the World to God in deathless Light, To bring God down to the world on earth we came, To change the earthly life to life divine."1 "There is an ascending evolution in nature which goes from the stone to the plant, from the plant to the animal, from the animal to man. Because man is, for the moment, the last rung at the summit of the ascending evolution, he considers himself as the final stage in this ascension and believes there can be nothing on earth superior to him. In that he is mistaken. In his physical nature he is yet almost wholly an animal, a thinking and speaking animal, but still an animal in his material habits and instincts. Undoubtedl

STRUCTURE AND WORKING "There should be somewhere on earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the world and obey one single authority, that of the supreme truth; a place of peace, concord and harmony where all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to surmount his weaknesses and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities; a place where the needs of the spirit and the concern for progress would take precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the search for pleasur

THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BASIS I. The Purpose of Creation "A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme: His nature we must put on as he put ours; We are sons of God and must be even as he: His human portion, we must grow divine. Our life is a paradox with God for key." 1 "The universe is an objectivisation of the Supreme, as if He had objectivised himself outside of himself in order to see himself, to live himself, to know himself, and so that there might be an existence and a consciousness capable of recognising him as their origin and uniting consciously with him to manifest him in the becoming. The

PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION 1. General Remarks "The spirit shall look out through Matter's gaze   And Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face."   - Savitri, XI-1-709. (i) Beauty It is in the form of beauty that the Divine manifests in the physical. Hence, in a setting like that of the SADLEC, the beauty of forms and designs, the beauty of surroundings and landscape, a high quality of materials, and a perfect ordering and arrangement of material objects ought to characterize all physical manifestation. This would tend to considerably increase the cost of structures, furnishings, equipment and landscaping. The Capital ex