ESSAYS DIVINE AND HUMAN

CONTENTS

	Part One Essays Divine and Human Section One (circa 1911) Certitudes Moksha Man Philosophy The Siddhis The Psychology of Yoga
	Section Two (1910 1913) Na Kinchidapi Chintayet The Sources of Poetry The Interpretation of Scripture On Original Thinking The Balance of Justice Social Reform Hinduism and the Mission of India The Psychology of Yoga The Claims of Theosophy Science and Religion in Theosophy Sat Sachchidananda The Silence behind Life
	Section Three (circa 1913) The Psychology of Yoga Initial Definitions and Descriptions The Object of Our Yoga Purna Yoga I. The Entire Purpose of Yoga II. Parabrahman, Mukti and Human Thought-Systems III. Parabrahman and Parapurusha Natural and Supernatural Man The Evolutionary Aim in Yoga The Fullness of Yoga—In Condition Nature Maya
	Section Four (1914 1919) The Beginning and the End The Hour of God Beyond Good and Evil The Divine Superman
	Section Five (1927 and after) The Law of the Way Man and the Supermind The Involved and Evolving Godhead The Evolution of Consciousness The Path

	Part Two From Man to Superman: Notes and Fragments on Philosophy, Psychology and Yoga
	Section One. Philosophy: God, Nature and Man God: The One Reality Nature: The World-Manifestation Man and Superman
	Section Two. Psychology: The Science of Consciousness The Problem of Consciousness Consciousness and the Inconscient The Science of Consciousness
	Section Three. Yoga: Change of Consciousness and Transformation of Nature The Way of Yoga Partial Systems of Yoga Integral Yoga

	Part Three Notes and Fragments on Various Subjects Section One. The Human Being in Time The Marbles of Time A Theory of the Human Being A Cyclical Theory of Evolution
	Section Two. The East and the West A Misunderstanding of Continents Towards Unification China, Japan and India
	Section Three. India Renascent India Where We Stand in Literature
	Section Four. Genius, Poetry, Beauty The Origin of Genius Poetic Genius The Voices of the Poets Pensées A Dream The Beauty of a Crow's Wings
	Section Five. Science, Religion, Reason, Justice Science Religion Reason and Society Justice

Part Four

Thoughts and Aphorisms

Section Four

Genius, Poetry, Beauty

The Origin of Genius

When the human being puts forth a force in himself which is considerable but acts normally, we call it talent; when it is abnormal in its working we call it genius. It would seem, therefore, that genius is in reality some imperfect step in evolution by which mankind in its most vigorous and forward individuals is attempting to develop a faculty which the race as a whole is not strong enough as yet to command or to acclimatise. As always happens in such a movement, there is a considerable irregularity in the working of the new phenomenon. Sometimes Nature seems to prepare by heredity for these its new experiments & fine flowers of humanity[.]

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