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The Supramental Manifestation and
World Change I HAVE been asked what difference the presence of the Supermind will
make, in what way will it change the trend of events and how, since the
Supramental manifestation, life has to be reviewed. I am asked to give
practical examples. I do not know what this means, but here is what I have seen
in a somewhat mathematical mood. Although the mathematical language is quite
foreign to me, still I may call it a mathematical mood, that is to say, a
mathematical way of looking at the problem. I believe you have done sufficient
mathematics to know the complexity of combinations that arises when you take as
your basis some elements out of a sum total. To make it clearer I shall give
you an example – but without using the terms you have been taught at school – from
the letters of the alphabet. There are a certain number of letters. Now, if you
want to calculate or know the number of combinations possible with these
letters, taking all the letters together and organising them in as many ways as
you can, as you have been taught, you will find that it runs into a fantastic figure. Similarly, take the material world and come
down to the most minute particle – you know scientists have arrived at things
that are absolutely invisible and incalculable – and take this particle as your
basis and the material world as the total and, further, imagine a Consciousness
or a Will playing with these particles, making all sorts of possible
combinations, never repeating the same combination. Of course, mathematically
they say that the number of particles is finite and therefore the number of combinations
also is finite, but this is purely theoretical, and theory does not interest
us. Coming to the practical,
Page – 153 even if you suppose that these combinations follow each other in such a manner and at such a speed that the
change from one to another is hardly perceptible, it is clear that the time
needed for the working out of all these combinations would be, apparently,
infinite. That is to say, the number of combinations would be so immense that
practically no end could be assigned to it. Now imagine, as I have just asked you to do,
that really there exists a Consciousness, a Will manifesting these combinations
successively and indefinitely, never repeating twice the same thing; then we
must come to the conclusion that the universe is new at each moment of
eternity, and if the universe is new at each moment of eternity we are forced
to admit there is nothing absolutely impossible; even further, what we call
logical is not necessarily the true, and the logic or what might almost be called
the fancy of the Creator has no limit to it. Therefore, if for some reason (which it is
difficult to express) a combination is not followed up by that which is nearest
to it, but another one freely chosen by the Supreme Freedom, all our external
certainties and all our surface logic would fall to the ground. For, the problem is much more complicated
than you imagine. It is not merely on one plane, in one domain, that is to say,
what may be called the surface of things, that there is this almost infinite quantity
of elements allowing combinations eternally new. There is more than that, there
is what may be termed depth, that is to say, other dimensions. Creation is the result not only of
combinations on the surface but also of combinations in the depths of this
surface: in other words, there are psychological factors. But I am looking at
it from the purely mathematical standpoint; although I do not speak the
mathematical language, it is still a mathematical conception. Here is then the
problem. Each time a new element is introduced into
the sum total of possible combinations, it is as it were a tearing of its
limits; the introduction of something that effaces the past limits, brings in
new possibilities into play, multiplies indefinitely the old possibilities. You
had, for example, a world as the ancient knowledge found it, with twelve layers
of depth or successive dimensions. Now suppose in this world of twelve
dimensions
Page – 154 suddenly other dimensions were precipitated;
all the old formulas would be changed immediately and the whole possibility
according to the old unfolding would be, one cannot say increased, but
supplemented by an almost infinite number of new possibilities, and that in
such a manner that all the old logic would become illogical in the presence of
the new logic. I do not speak at all of what the human mind
has made of the universe, because that is a reduction to its own dimension. I
speak of the fact as it is, of the sum total of combinations that realise
themselves successively according to an order and a choice which evidently
escape wholly the human consciousnes, a sum total to which man has somewhat
adapted himself and has at last succeeded in giving an expression that links
itself to something tangible, after a great effort of study made through the
centuries. It is evident that the modern scientific perception is much nearer
to something that corresponds to the universal Reality than the perceptions,
say, of the Stone Age; there is not a shadow of doubt about
t4at. But even this will be completely transcended, surpassed and probably
upset by the intrusion of something which was not in the universe and has not
been studied so far. This change, this sudden mutation in the
universal elements will very certainly bring a kind of chaos in our
perceptions, but out of it a new knowledge will arise. That, in a most general way,
will be the result of the New Manifestation. From a more restricted, external
and limited point of view I shall speak now of things which are not within my
own experience, but which I have heard being spoken about. It is said, for example,
that one finds now a larger number of what they call child prodigies.
Personally, I have met none, so I cannot say what exactly is
"prodigious" in these children. However, as the stories go, there is
a new type or types of consciousness which appear surprising to the ordinary
human consciousness. It is such examples, I suppose, that you would like to
have in order to understand what is happening. Indeed it is quite possible that
things are happening now which people are not accustomed to meet with. But that
is a question of interpretation. The only fact I am sure of is what I have just
told you, that the quality, the quantity and the
Page – 155 nature of the possible universal combinations are about to change to
such an extent that it will stagger all those who deal with life. Let us wait
and see. I may add one word, a practical word, to what
I have already said; it is an illustration of a detail, but it will be a kind
of reply to some other questions put to me some time ago about the so-called
laws of Nature, causes and effects, inevitable consequences in the material
world, more particularly from the point of view of health: we are told that if
some precautions are not taken, if we do not eat as we should, if we do not
follow certain rules, necessarily there will be consequences. True. But if you look at the thing in the
light of what I have told you – that there are no two universal combinations
that are alike – then how can you establish laws and what is the absolute truth
of such laws? There is no such truth. For, if you are
logical, that is to say, with a little higher logic, how can you say that a
thing repeats itself, since there are no two things, no two combinations, no
two universal manifestations that are the same? The "sameness" could
be only an appearance, not a fact. The mind sets up rigid laws, and when it
does that, you do not cut yourself off from the apparent surface existence, for
the surface, in a very obliging manner, seems to satisfy these laws. But that
is an appearance, and it does cut you off from the creative Power of the
Spirit, cut you off from the true Power of Grace. You can understand that if,
by your aspiration and your attitude, you bring down a higher element, a new
element – which now we may call the Supramental – into the existing
combinations, you can all on a sudden change their nature and then all these
so-called necessary and inexorable laws become absurdities. It is you, with
your conception, your attitude, your acceptance of certain so-called
principles, it is yourself who shut the door against the possibility of what
you call miracles. They are not miracles, if you know how they come about, but
evidently for your consciousness they have the look of the miraculous. It is you who say with a logic that appears
quite reasonable: "If I do this, necessarily this will happen," or
"If I do not do this, this other thing will surely come about," and
that is how you put, as it were, an iron curtain between yourself and the free
action of the Grace.
Page – 156 How
good would it be to imagine that the Supreme Consciousness, essentially free,
that presides over the universal manifestation, is fanciful in its choice and
that it makes things succeed each other, not according to a logic that is
accessible to the human thought, but according to another kind of logic, the
logic of the unforeseen! Then there would be no limit to the
possibilities, the unexpected and the wonderful. And one could hope for the
most splendid, the most delightful things from this Will, sovereignly free,
playing eternally with the elements, ceaselessly bringing forth a new world
that would have logically nothing to do with the world that went before. Don't
you think it would be the happiest of things? We have had enough of the world
as it is. All this I am telling you so that each one of
you may put as few barriers as possible against future possibilities. And that
is my conclusion. I do not know if I have made myself understood
or not, but I suppose a day will come when you will know what I have wanted to
say.
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