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BOOK TWELVE   Epilogue  

  Section Eight         TRANSFORMATION OF THE SUBCONSCIENT AND THE INCONSCIENT               TRANSFORMATION OF THE SUBCONSCIENT AND THE INCONSCIENT       I         So long as there is not the supramental change down to the subconscient, complete and full, the lower nature has always a hold on some part of the being.        *                                                             *         The subconscient is a dark and ignorant region, so that it is natural that the obscurer movements of the Nature should have more power there. It is so indeed with all the lower parts of the nature from the lower vi

   Section Six   TRANSFORMATION OF THE VITAL         TRANSFORMATION OF THE VITAL         I         The two movements whose apparent contradiction confuses your mind, are the two ends of a single consciousness whose motions, now separated from each other, must join if the life-power is to have its more and more perfect action and fulfilment or the transformation for which we hope.         The vital being with the life-force in it is one of these ends; the other is a latent dynamic power of the higher consciousness through which the Divine Truth can act, take hold of the vital and its life-force and used it for a greater purpose here.      

  Section Two   VISIONS AND SYMBOLS     surface or waking consciousness but has a latent capacity (which can be perfected by training and practice) for entering into the experiences of the inner consciousness of which most people are unaware but which opens by the practice of yoga. By this opening one becomes aware of subtle planes of experience and worlds of existence other than the material. For the spiritual life a still further opening is required into an inmost consciousness by which one becomes aware of the Self and Spirit, the Eternal and the Divine.          *                                                             *         Visions do not