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Namah Vol. 32, Issue 1, 24th April 2024

and outer harmony and the stirring of light restlessness on the one hand and, on the other,
in the human consciousness that is waking an almost explosion in the multiplication of
up to the mysteries of existence. sects and cults and paths, each claiming to
facilitate the delivery of this new life through
Its fine flowers are those of the thinker a minimum of labour pain.
rather than the hero, the philosopher rather
than the martyr, the calm, detached sage This life is characterised by a growing intuitive
rather than the other two who are attached sense of a greater life, a higher possibility, a
either to obscurity and blind servitude to divination of the Godhead within man, an
mechanical rule, or to the objects of desires emphasis on higher values based on a deeper
and to wealth, power and position. This life and more complete understanding. The sign
moves cautiously in slowly expanding circles of a perfect mentalised humanity is that he
of ignorance, taking the help of information, controls the animal by the moral and ethical
opinions and viewpoints. It can expand values that its discerning intellect provides.
endlessly since the mind, though finite, has By doing so, man transcends the animal-type
no limit to exploring its own domain. of humanity that is centred around bodily
needs and the raakssasic and asuric humanity
Climbing beyond the Mind centred around desires and ambitions. In fact,
it humanises them. The animal is chained
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But a time comes, when tired of the incertitude but not tamed. The Raksasa and the Asura are
of thought, the mind and the intellect begin modified to wear acceptable masks but they
to enter into pure reflection, a meditation always lurk behind. At any time, the animal
upon the deeper mysteries, an intellectual and the Asura may break free and sully our
search for the final Truth if any. The merely thoughts and actions. The true spiritual life,
curious man and the analytical thinker begin on the other hand, transcends the human and
to pass into the high philosopher and the modifies it by providing an intuitive light
compassionate sage. Climbing to peaks of and a higher sense of values that replaces
luminous thought, one begins to see and the ordinary human moral sense.
feel within the mind some far-off ray of the
Source of all things. Taking hold of this yet The Mother describes this new life beautifully:
insubstantial ray, man the thinker begins a
new journey towards a new life. His climb “The civilisation which is ending now in such a
is met with a response from the heights dramatic way was based on the power of mind,
and new faculties of knowledge such as mind dealing with matter and life. What it has
inspiration, revelation and intuition are born. been to the world, we have not to discuss here.
This ascension gives birth to the mystic and But a new reign is coming, that of the Spirit:
the seer. This spiritual life that is yet rare after the human, the divine.
and difficult is the next evolutionary project
undertaken by Nature. Until now available to Yet, if we have been fortunate enough to live
the few, there is a hastening and quickening on earth at such a stupendous, a unique time
of this life in the womb of humanity. It is this as this one, is it sufficient to stand and watch
that is leading to an increasing tension and the unfolding events? All those who feel that

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