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\nSupermind
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\n     T<\/span>HE
\nessential character of Supermind is a Truth-Consciousness which knows by its own
\ninherent right of nature, by its own light: it has not to arrive at knowledge
\nbut possesses it. It may indeed, especially in its evolutionary action, keep
\nknowledge behind its apparent consciousness and bring it forward as if from
\nbehind the veil; but even then this veil is only an appearance and does not
\nreally exist: the knowledge was always there, the consciousness its possessor
\nand present revealer. This too is only in the evolutionary play and on the
\nsupramental plane itself the consciousness lives always in an immediacy of
\nknowledge and acts by a direct immediacy of knowledge. In Mind as we see it here
\nthe action is very different; it starts from an apparent absence of knowledge, a
\nseeming ignorance or nescience, even, in material Nature, from an inconscience
\nin which any kind of knowing does not seem at all to exist. It reaches knowledge
\nor the action of knowledge by steps which are not at all immediate but rather
\nknowledge at first seems utterly impossible and foreign to the very substance of
\nthis Matter. Yet, in the blindness of Matter itself there are signs of a
\nconcealed consciousness which in its hidden fundamental being sees and has the
\npower to act according to its vision and even by an infallible immediacy which
\nis inherent in its nature. This is the same Truth that is apparent in Supermind
\nbut is here involved and seems not to be. The Mind of Light is a subordinate
\naction of Supermind, dependent upon it even when not apparently springing direct
\nfrom it, in which the secret of this connection becomes evident and palpable.<\/p>\n

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\n The
\nTruth-Consciousness is not only a power of knowledge; it is a being of
\nconsciousness and knowledge, a luminous many-sided dynamis and play of the
\nomniscient Spirit; in it there can be a spiritual feeling, a spiritual
\nsensation, a spiritual essentiality of substance that knows and reveals, that
\nacts and manifests in an omniscience which is one with omnipotence. In Mind this<\/p>\n

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Truth-Consciousness
\nand these workings of the Truth-Consciousness can be there and even though it
\nlimits itself in Mind and has a subordinate or an indirect working, its action
\ncan be essentially the same. There can even be a hidden immediacy which hints at
\nthe presence of something absolute and is evidence of the same omnipotence and
\nomniscience. In the Mind of Light when it becomes full-orbed this character of
\nthe Truth reveals itself though in a garb that is transparent even when it seems
\nto cover: for this too is a truth-consciousness and a self-power of knowledge.
\nThis too proceeds from the Supermind and depends upon it even though it is
\nlimited and subordinate. What we have called specifically the Mind of Light is
\nindeed the last of a series of descending planes of consciousness in which the
\nSupermind veils itself by a self-chosen limitation or modification of its
\nself-manifesting activities, but its essential character remains the same: there
\nis in it an action of light, of truth, of knowledge in which inconscience,
\nignorance and error claim no place. It proceeds from knowledge to knowledge; we
\nhave not yet crossed over the borders of the truth-conscious into ignorance. The
\nmethods also are those of a self-luminous knowing and seeing and feeling and a
\nself-fulfiling action within its own borders; there is no need to seek for
\nsomething missing, no fumbling, no hesitation: all is still a gnostic action of
\na gnostic power and principle. There has been a descent from full Supermind into
\nMind, but this Mind though a self-limited is not yet an agnostic consciousness
\nunsure of itself or unsure of its workings; there is still a comprehending or an
\napprehending consciousness which goes straight to its object and does not miss
\nits mark or have to hunt for it in the dark or in insufficient light: it sees,
\nknows, puts its hand immediately on things of self and things of Nature. We have
\npassed into Mind but mind has still not broken its inherent connection with the
\nsupramental principle.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/span>
\n Still
\nthere is an increasing self-limitation which begins even with Overmind: Overmind
\nis separated by only a luminous border on the full light and power of the
\nsupramental Truth and it still commands direct access to all that Supermind can
\ngive it. There is a further limitation or change of characteristic action at
\neach step downwards from Overmind to Intuition, from Intuition<\/p>\n

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 to
\nIllumined Mind, from Illumined Mind to what I have called the Higher Mind: the
\nMind of Light is a transitional passage by which we can pass from supermind and
\nsuperhumanity to an illumined humanity. For the new humanity will be capable of
\nat least a partly divinised way of seeing and living because it will live in the
\nlight and in knowledge and not in the obscuration of the Ignorance.<\/p>\n

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\nStill,
\nagain there will be a difference between the superhuman and the human, a
\ndifference in nature and power but a difference especially in the access and way
\nof admission to the Truth-Consciousness and its activities: there may indeed be
\ntwo orders of its truth, direct and half-direct, immediate and near or even only
\na reception at a distance. But this we must consider afterwards; at present it
\nis sufficient to mark certain differences in the descending order of gnostic
\nmind which culminates here. We may say that there is a higher hemisphere of our
\nbeing in which Mind luminous and aware of its workings still lives in the Light
\nand can be seen as a subordinate power of the Supermind; it is still an agent of
\nthe Truth-Consciousness, a gnostic power that has not descended into the mental
\nignorance; it is capable of a mental gnosis that preserves its connection with
\nthe superior light and acts by its power. This is the character of Overmind in
\nits own plane and of all the powers that are dependent on the Overmind: the
\nSupermind works there but at one remove, as if in something that it has put
\nforth from itself but which is no longer entirely itself but is still a delegate
\nof the Truth and invested with its authority. We are moving towards a
\ntransitional border beyond which lies the possibility of the Ignorance, but the
\nIgnorance is not yet here. In the order of the evolutionary descent we stand in
\nthe Mind of Light on that border and a step downward can carry us beyond it into
\nthe beginnings of an ignorance which still bears on its face something of the
\nluminosity that it is leaving behind it. On the other hand, in the ascending
\norder of the evolution we reach a transition in which we see the light, are
\nturned towards it, reflected in our consciousness and one further step carries
\nus into the domain of the Light. The Truth becomes visible and audible to us and
\nwe are in immediate communication with its messages and illuminations and can
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made
\none with its substance. Thus there is a succession of ranges of consciousness
\nwhich we can speak of as Mind but which belongs practically to the higher
\nhemisphere although in their ontological station they are within the domain of
\nthe lower hemisphere. For the whole of being is a connected totality and there
\nis in it no abrupt passage from the principle of Truth and Light into their
\nopposite. The creative truth of things works and can work infallibly even in the
\nInconscient: the Spirit is there in Matter<\/span> and
\nit has made a series of steps by which it can travel from it to its own heights
\nin an uninterrupted line of gradations: the depths are linked to the heights and
\nthe Law of the one Truth creates and works everywhere.<\/p>\n

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\nEven
\nin the material world which seems to us a world of ignorance, a world of the
\nworkings of a blind and inconscient Force starting from inconscience and
\nproceeding through Ignorance and reaching with difficulty towards an imperfect
\nLight and Knowledge, there is still a secret Truth in things which arranges all,
\nguides towards the Self many contrary powers of being and rises towards its own
\nheights where it can manifest its own highest truth and fulfil the secret
\npurpose of the universe. Even this material world of existence is built upon a
\npattern of the truth in things which we call Law of Nature, a truth from which
\nwe climb to a greater truth until we emerge in the Light of the Supreme. This
\nworld is not really created by a blind force of Nature: even in the Inconscient
\nthe presence of the supreme Truth is at work; there is a seeing Power behind it
\nwhich acts infallibly and the step of the Ignorance itself are guided even when
\nthey seem to stumble; for, what we call the Ignorance is a cloaked Knowledge, a
\nKnowledge at work in a body not its own but moving towards its own supreme
\nself-discovery. This Knowledge is the covert Supermind which is the support of
\nthe creation and is leading all towards itself and guides behind this multitude
\nof minds and creatures and objects which seem each to be following its own law
\nof nature; in this vast and apparently confused mass of existence there is a
\nlaw, a one truth of being, a guiding and fulfilling purpose of the
\nworld-existence. The Supermind is veiled here and does not work according to its
\ncharacteristic Jaw of being and self-knowledge, but without it nothing could
\nreach its aim. A<\/p>\n

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world
\ngoverned by an ignorant mind would soon drift into a chaos; it could not in fact
\ncome into existence or remain in existence unless supported by the secret
\nOmniscience of which it is the cover; a world governed by a blind inconscient
\nforce might repeat constantly the same mechanical workings but it would mean
\nnothing and arrive nowhere. This could not be the cause of an evolution that
\ncreates life out of Matter, out of life mind, and a gradation of planes of
\nMatter, Life and Mind culminating in the emergence of Supermind. The secret
\ntruth that emerges in Supermind has been there all the time, but now it
\nmanifests itself and the truth in things and the meaning of our existence.<\/p>\n

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\nIt
\nis in this series of the order of existence and as the last word of the lower
\nhemisphere of being, the first word of the higher hemisphere that we have to
\nlook at the Mind of Light and see what is its nature and the powers which
\ncharacterise it and which it uses for its self-manifestation and workings, its
\nconnection with Supermind and its consequences and possibilities for the life of
\na new humanity.<\/p>\n

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