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\nMind
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\n                A<\/span><\/b>
\nNEW humanity means for us the
\nappearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle
\nof mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge
\nbut even in its knowledge bound to the ignorance, a seeker after Light but not
\nits natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not
\nyet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance.
\nInstead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light,
\na mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and
\nmanifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its
\nmentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At
\nits highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new
\nrace would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the
\nleaders of the evolution in earth-nature. Even, the highest manifestations of a
\nmind of Light would be an instrumentality of the supermind, a part of it or a
\nprojection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the
\nsupramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to
\nrise beyond the normalities of his present thinking, feeling and being into
\nthose highest power of the mind in its self-exceedings which intervene between
\nour mentality and supermind and can be regarded as steps towards the greater and
\nmore luminous principle. This like others in the evolution might not be reached
\nand would naturally not be reached at one bound but from the very beginning it
\nwould be inevitable: the pressure of the supermind creating from above out of
\nitself the mind of Light would compel this certainty of the eventual outcome.
\nThe first gleamings of the new Light would carry in themselves the seed of its
\nhighest flamings; even in the first beginnings, the certainty of their topmost
\npowers would be there; for this is the constant story of each evolutionary
\nemergence: the principle of its highest per-<\/p>\n

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\nlies concealed in the involution which precedes and necessitates the evolution
\nof the secret principle.<\/p>\n

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\nFor
\nthroughout the story of evolution there are two complementary aspects which
\nconstitute its action and are necessary to its totality; there is hidden in the
\ninvolution of Nature the secret power and principle of being which lies
\nconcealed under the veil cast on it by material Nature and there is carried in
\nthat Nature itself the inevitable force of the principle compelling the process
\nof emergence of its inherent powers and characters, the essential features which
\nconstitute its reality. As the evolutionary principle emerges, there are also
\ntwo constant features of the process of the emergence: there are the gradations
\nby
\n<\/span> , which it climbs out of the
\ninvolution and manifests more and more of its power, its possibilities, the
\nforce of the Godhead within it and there is a constant manifestation of all
\ntypes and forms of its being which are the visible, indicative and efficient
\nembodiments of its essential nature. There appear in the evolutionary process
\norganised forms and activities of Matter, the types of life and the living
\nbeings, the types of mind and the thinking beings, the luminosities and
\ngreatnesses of the spiritual principle and the spiritual beings whose nature,
\ncharacter, personality, mark the stages of the ascent towards the highest
\nheights of the evolution and the ultimate largest manifestation of what it is in
\nitself and must become by the force of time and the all-revealing Spirit. This
\nis the real sense and drive of what we see as evolution: the multiplication and
\nvariation of forms is only the means of its process. Each gradation contains the
\npossibility and the certainty of the grades beyond it: the emergence of more and
\nmore developed forms and powers point to more perfected forms and greater powers
\nbeyond them and each emergence of consciousness and the conscious beings proper
\nto it enables the rise to a greater consciousness beyond and the greater order
\nof beings up to the ultimate godheads of which Nature is striving and is
\ndestined to show herself capable. Matter developed its organised forms until it
\nbecame capable of embodying living organisms; then life rose from the
\nsubconscience of the plant into conscious animal formations and through them to
\nthe thinking life of man. Mind founded in life developed intellect, developed<\/p>\n

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\ntypes of knowledge and ignorance, truth and error till it reached the spiritual
\nperception and illumination and now can see as in a glass dimly the possibility
\nof supermind and a truth-conscious existence. In this inevitable ascent the mind
\nof Light is a gradation, an inevitable stage. As an evolving principle it will
\nmark a stage in the human ascent and evolve a new type of human being; this
\ndevelopment must carry in it an ascending gradation of its own powers and types
\nof an ascending humanity which will embody more and more the turn towards
\nspirituality, capacity for Light, a climb towards a divinised manhood and the
\ndivine Life.<\/p>\n

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\nIn
\nthe birth of the mind of Light and its ascension into its own regognisable self
\nand its true status and right province there must be, in the very nature of
\nthings as they are and very nature of the evolutionary process as it is at
\npresent, two stages. In the first, we can see the mind of Light gathering itself
\nout of the Ignorance, assembling its constituent elements, building up its
\nshapes and types however imperfect at first and pushing them towards perfection
\ntill it can cross the border of the Ignorance and appear in the Light, in its
\nown Light. In the second stage we can see it developing itself in that greater
\nnatural light taking its higher shapes and forms till it joins the supermind and
\nlives as its subordinate portion or its delegate. In each of these stages it
\nwill define its own grades and manifest the order of its beings who will embody
\nit and give to it a realised life. Thus there will be built up, first, even in
\nthe Ignorance itself, the possibility of a human ascent towards a divine living;
\nthen there will be, by the illumination of this mind of Light in the greater
\nrealisation of what may be called a gnostic mentality, in a transformation of
\nthe human being, even before the supermind is reached, even in the
\nearth-consciousness and in a humanity transformed, an illumined divine life.<\/p>\n

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