Conflict between two Forces
"One thing seems
obvious, humanity has reached a certain state of general tension
- tension in effort, in action, even in daily life - with such
an excessive hyperactivity, so widespread a trepidation, that
mankind as a whole seems to have come to a point where it must
either break through the resistance and emerge into a new consciousness
or else fall back into an abyss of darkness and inertia.
This tension is so
complete and so widespread that something obviously has to break.
It cannot go on in this way. We may take it as a sure sign of
the infusion into matter of a new principle of force, consciousness,
power, which by its very pressure is producing this acute state.
Outwardly, we could expect the old methods used by Nature when
she wants to bring about an upheaval; but there is a new characteristic,
which of course is only visible in an elite, but even this elite
is fairly widespread - it is not localised at one point, at one
place in the world; we find traces of it in all countries, all
over the world: the will to find a new, higher, progressive solution,
an effort to rise towards a vaster, more comprehensive perfection.
Certain ideas of a
more general nature, of a wider, perhaps more "collective"
kind, are being worked out and are acting in the world. And both
things go together: a possibility of a greater and more total
destruction, a reckless inventiveness which increases the possibility
of catastrophe, a catastrophe which would be on a far greater
scale than it has ever been; and, at the same time, the birth
or rather the manifestation of much higher and more comprehensive
ideas and acts of will which, when they are heard, will bring
a wider, vaster, more complete, more perfect remedy than before.
This
struggle, this conflict between the constructive forces of the
ascending evolution of a more and more perfect and divine realisation,
and the more and more destructive, powerfully destructive forces
- forces that are mad beyond all control - is more and more obvious,
marked, visible, and it is a kind of a race or struggle as to
which will reach the goal first. It would seem that all the adverse,
anti-divine forces, the forces of the vital world, have descended
on the earth, are making use of it as their field of action, and
that at the same time a new, higher, more powerful spiritual force
has also descended on earth to bring it a new life. This makes
the struggle more acute, more violent, more visible, but it seems
also more definitive, and that is why we can hope to reach an
early solution.
There was a time, not
so long ago, when the spiritual aspiration of man was turned towards
a silent, inactive peace, detached from all worldly things, a
flight from life, precisely to avoid battle, to rise above the
struggle, escape all effort; it was a spiritual peace in which,
along with the cessation of all tension, struggle, effort, there
ceased also suffering in all its forms, and this was considered
to be the true and only expression of a spiritual and divine life.
It was considered to be the divine grace, the divine help, the
divine intervention. And even now, in this age of anguish, tension,
hypertension, this sovereign peace is the best received aid of
all, the most welcome, the solace people ask and hope for. For
many it is still the true sign of a divine intervention, of divine
grace.
Possibilities for
the Future
In fact,
no matter what one wants to realise, one must begin by establishing
this perfect and immutable peace; it is the basis from which one
must work; but unless one is dreaming of an exclusive, personal
and egoistic liberation, one cannot stop there. There is another
aspect of the divine grace, the aspect of progress which will
be victorious over all obstacles, the aspect which will propel
humanity to a new realisation, which will open the doors of a
new world and make it possible not only for a chosen few to benefit
by the divine realisation but for their influence, their example,
their power to bring to the rest of mankind new and better conditions.
This opens up roads
of realisation into the future, possibilities which are already
foreseen, when an entire part of humanity, the one which has opened
consciously or unconsciously to the new forces, is lifted up,
as it were, into a higher, more harmonious, more perfect life…
Even if individual transformation is not always permissible or
possible, there will be a kind of general uplifting, a harmonisation
of the whole, which will make it possible for a new order, a new
harmony to be established and for the anguish of the present disorder
and struggle to disappear and be replaced by an order which will
allow a harmonious functioning of the whole.
There will be other
consequences which will tend to eliminate in an opposite way what
the intervention of the mind in life has created, the perversions,
the ugliness, the whole mass of distortions which have increased
suffering, misery, moral poverty, an entire area of sordid and
repulsive misery which makes a whole part of human life into something
so frightful. That must disappear."
- The
Mother
