The Consequence of the
Descent of Supermind
What then would be the consequence for
humanity of the descent of Supermind into our earthly existence,
its consequence for this race born into a world of ignorance and
inconscience but capable of an upward evolution of its consciousness
and an ascent into the light and power and bliss of a spiritual
being and spiritual nature? The descent into the earth-life of
so supreme a creative power as the Supermind and its truth-consciousness
could not be merely a new feature or factor added to that life
or put in its front but without any other importance or only a
restricted importance carrying with it no results profoundly affecting
the rest of earth-nature. Especially it could not fail to exercise
an immense influence on mankind as a whole, even a radical change
in the aspect and prospect of its existence here, even if this
power had no other capital result on the material world in which
it had come down to intervene. One cannot but conclude that the
influence, the change made would be far-reaching, even enormous:
it would not only establish the Supermind and a supramental race
of beings upon the earth, it could bring about an uplifting and
transforming change in mind itself and, as an inevitable consequence,
in the consciousness of man, the mental being, and would equally
bring about a radical and transforming change in the principles
and forms of his living, his ways of action and the whole build
and tenor of his life. It would certainly open to man the access
to the supramental consciousness and the supramental life; for
we must suppose that it is by such a transformation that a race
of supramental beings would be created, even as the human race
itself has arisen by a less radical but still a considerable uplifting
and enlargement of consciousness and conversion of the body's
instrumentation and its indwelling and evolving mental and spiritual
capacities and powers out of a first animal state. But even without
any such complete transformation, the truth-principle might so
far replace the principle we see here of an original ignorance
seeking for knowledge and arriving only at a partial knowledge
that the human mind could become a power of light, of knowledge
finding itself, not the denizen of a half-way twilight or a servant
and helper of the ignorance, a purveyor of mingled truth and error.
Mind might even become in man, what it is in its fundamental origin,
a subordinate, limited and special action of the Supermind, a
sufficiently luminous receptacle of truth, and at least all falsity
in its works might cease.
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It could even be a part of what could be
described as a divine life upon earth and at least the beginnings
of an evolution in the Knowledge and no longer entirely or predominantly
in the Ignorance.
