We human beings are transitional beings, and high beyond us there always beckons our ascent to an advanced, postmodern and perhaps super-human existence. Such a path is towards our approaching achievements—our destiny.

The driving force of our aspirations leading us onward from our troubled and limited human existence is inevitable because it is at once the intention of our inner spirit and the logic of Nature’s process. The appearance of such human possibilities in a material and animal world is the sign of a developing phenomenon which is the invasion of the finite by the infinite with the appearance of the spiritual in the material. The appearance of the spiritual postmodern human in the material world will be the fulfillment of that promise and the difference between the present human being and that spiritual human being is analogous to the difference between normal material mind and a consciousness as far beyond it as their thinking mind is beyond the consciousness of their primitive ancestors. The differentiating essence of humanity is their mind and the differentiating essence of the spiritual human will be their soul consciousness which will possess a greatly expanded and heightened awareness of reality. The average human mind is confined and circumscribed in a living conscious body whereas such advanced soul-minded persons will envelop and freely use a transformed mind made amenable to spiritual forces as an adequate instrument for the spirit’s work in matter.

The modern human mind is not the highest possibility of consciousness because it is not in possession of knowledge of spiritual reality. Awaiting the mind is a power of higher consciousness which has as its source the dynamic consciousness of the divine Creator of mind. During the process of this unfolding some delegation of this power shall descend into the presently limited human nature and only then can the human being become conscious of the spiritual power which has descended here into a new life with a transformed mind — a distinct and triumphant victory to be won by the spirit descended into earthly nature. Such unified minds will be significantly beyond that of the average mental human mind with its limitations, and possessed of a greater consciousness than the highest level of consciousness now common to human nature. The modern human is a being of the material world whose mentality works here in a physical brain separated from its own spiritual powers and impotent to change life beyond certain narrow limits, and even in the highest of its kind it is somewhat deprived of spiritual force and freedom by this dependence. Most often it only serves the needs and interests of the life and the body whereas even in its evolutionary beginnings the advanced consciousness will appear as sovereign and irresistible, penetrating and possessing the lower human nature where it will transform mind, life and body into its own spiritual illuminated nature. 

An immortal soul is hidden somewhere within human beings and gives out some indications of its presence, while an eternal spirit overshadows and upholds with its power this soul continuity in their human nature. But that spirit is obstructed from manifestation by the hard outer shell of their constructed personality, and their inner radiant soul remains stifled and suppressed and in all but a few it is seldom active and in many it is barely perceptible. The soul and spirit seem to exist somewhere behind the formed human nature rather than as a part of its visible reality — subliminal in their inner being in some unreached place. They are present in the higher consciousness as potentials rather than things actualized and the spirit seems to be in some prenatal state rather than born into matter.

Our human being, having a limited spiritual consciousness, cannot be the end result of the mysterious upward surge of Nature. There is something more that has yet to be brought down from above which is seen only through small gaps in the barrier of our limitations, and there is something waiting to be evolved from behind the curtain of our mental consciousness, something in us unexpressed that has to be revealed by an illumination from above. Our spirit is waiting for the light to descend from its spiritual summits and it is in that descent and awakening that the secret of our future lies. The human being’s greatness is not in what they are but in what they make possible, and unlike the lower forms of life they are to be the conscious partners of their own transformation by their free assent and their consecrated will and participation to effect the spiritualization. The nature of the spirit entering into the material world is an enigma to the mind but to the enlarging consciousness it will appear as inevitable.

This, since we are inwardly souls of that spirit, will be the nature of our experience, but before there can be any further evolution there must occur this descent of the spirit that is to emerge. Only when this descending spirit consciousness manifests its own power will we become able to truly know ourselves and the world instead of speculating blindly without the benefit of the full power of the consciousness of the superior mind. The true knowledge of things is denied to our reasoning because reasoning is only an expedient, a transitional instrument meant to deal with the appearances of things and their phenomenal process.

True knowledge commences only when our consciousness can pass beyond its present normal limit in us and become directly aware of its self and of its power in the world. Thereafter it will know and see, no longer by the human power of reason groping among external reality but by an ever increasing and always illuminated spiritual experience. As it actualizes it will become a conscious part of the spirit revealing itself in the world in human beings who are spiritually transformed, and its life will be a power for the conscious evolution of that which is not yet widely manifested in the material world—the spiritual human God-Consciousness. There are three powers with which we have to contend since there are no other such powers in the universe — God, the soul and nature — and these three are as it were different aspects of one being.  All existence whatever its appearance or its process of being is and draws its substance— its origin, its energy and its truth — from a spirit which is the beginning, middle and end of all, being eternal, infinite, self-existent beyond end or beginning, beyond space and time, beyond form and beyond quality. This is the fundamental reality which is hidden from our knowledge, the one truth on which all other truths depend, those that affirm it as well as those that seem to contradict it. To be conscious of this spiritual reality and its relations with the other truths or appearances of existence, and to live in it and govern by its truth all of our being — consciousness, nature, will and action — would then be the law of a perfect life.

Human life is imperfect because its consciousness shifts, seeking and experimenting in a fundamental ignorance of the real truth of its own spiritual being and is therefore unable to know or to effectuate the true law of its life. It is only if one can overcome this ignorance and inability that they can hope to perfect their life and nature. If there is no means of doing that then they can never hope to escape from imperfection and the suffering which is its consequence. They can only either eventually die in their ignorance, escaping from an incurable imperfection and suffering by a physical extinction, or escape out of it through an awakening of their soul, otherwise human life on earth would never grow into anything fundamentally better or more perfect than it is now. The hope that by using our reason and observing or utilizing the laws of Nature we can arrive at a perfect life here is futile, for our nature here being itself ignorant and imperfect cannot arrive at anything better than a mitigated imperfection and ignorance. But if there is a means by which we can arrive at a true knowledge of the reality behind things and enter into its truth and light then there is no reason why our life here should not become spiritual and perfect.

A greater existence and consciousness than what we have now to which we can by certain means raise ourselves and become and enter into that is the postulate. What is this greater consciousness and existence? It is something eternal and infinite, absolute and perfect and which is the secret of all things and it is a form of energy in the universe. The existence we live — the consciousness we use — our mind and life and body are but fragmentary phenomena of it. But this hidden truth of things is contradicted by the world’s external appearances and it is denied by all the facts placed before us by our mind and our senses, inconsistent with the sorrow and suffering of the world, incompatible with the imperfection of living beings and the unchangeable nature of things.

What then pushes the mind to affirm it? What is it that compels us to admit an inchoate knowing of things which is in conflict with our limited seeing and experience? Any religious human being expecting to be an all-discovering intellect is constantly reminded by Nature’s rude proof of their ignorance and incompetence by exhibiting in their thoughts the tendency to self-confident error and in their feelings and acts — the petty faultiness, meanness and falsehood or cruelty of their lower nature. In the management of their world that which is not spiritual prevails easily over the little that is spiritual or they are inextricably mixed together. Then their ideal fails in practice and their religion often degenerates quickly into a sectarian fanaticism or a set formality and any good can degenerate into an organized evil — error.

The Christian doctrine of the fall or the Indian idea of the wandering of the soul in a cosmic illusion or the skeptical affirmation of a material Nature producing the chance of consciousness seems to be the essence of the whole dilemma. And yet if we go deeply enough into ourselves we encounter something valid that proves to be a veiled divine element which forms its immortality—our soul. If we are able to get beyond our embodied mind and senses we open suddenly into something permanent that feels itself to be eternal and infinite, that cannot appear to be as anything else nor can we conceive of it as anything else, an infinite self, an eternal spirit. Moreover in our most secret essence we are hopeful of potential perfection or of perfectibility but the Supreme is not able to manifest itself to our minds embroiled in matter. Countless super-physical levels separate our terrestrial consciousness from all direct contact with our spirit yet there can be no question of an unveiled immediate intimate presence and guidance of that which is ineffable.

The Divine Consciousness and Force can put us into some kind of touch with that inexpressible wonder and communicate to us a higher will and its consequences. This cannot be done through the mind for the thinking mind can only form some inadequate and quite abstract conception of an Absolute or a Supreme Person or an impersonal Principle or Presence. And even the mind that experiences higher moral and spiritual levels of existence yields only a pale reflection of spiritual reality which it takes for that ineffable or vague sense of the Eternal or the Infinite. It cannot grasp that and it cannot realize it for if it tries either that vanishes or it disappears in a featureless void or dissolution. But what the mind itself cannot do the soul and a secret perfection in our deepest spiritual being will, because we have the instinct and intuition of our constant companion — our inborn spirit.

Nature, by utilizing evolution and following its onward push has produced some human souls who are capable of progressing beyond the ordinary masses. There are individuals who have entered into active partnership with their soul and spirit and into conscious awareness of the very presence of God, feeling it all around them and within them and aware of their own identity with it and preserving a constant separateness of their special being in that identity, but they do not immerse or submerge themselves completely into it in isolation. Instead they continue to live their exterior, normal material life while inwardly maintaining their soul and spirit self-identification. Unless an individual immerses their entire being and until they utterly consecrate to their spirit withholding absolutely nothing of their being, then the divine purpose of Nature in them cannot be fully accomplished. That is because Nature, which is actually the will of God in action working through evolution, is completely dependent upon the human being’s unselfish will-to-action — their cooperation — for its ultimate purpose to become accomplished. 

Many religions believe in the eventual absorption of the individual soul into the Universal Spirit of Creation but extinction is not to be the fulfillment of all of the searching, suffering and trials of the human being who is searching for God and joining with God’s spirit because the transformed consciousness is bringing the power of the spirit of the Universal Father down into the higher reaches of their human consciousness so that matter, life and mind are transformed and made capable of a spiritual life here on earth. This meeting of humanity and God’s spirit means their self-immersion in the spirit but certainly not in the nature of annihilation. The fulfillment of individuality will be in its functioning as a perfected medium of self-manifestation for the spirit in human consciousness in material conditions. Our essential being — our real self — is our being with the spirit’s consciousness but it is concealed from us by our mental ego. If we aspire to a spiritual existence we cannot attain it by any other way than by unveiling the spirit self which is within us and by rising from our present self-imposed status to a higher one in the true self and entering into unity with the spirit’s consciousness which our lower human nature has until now been unable to accomplish. And so it is by this means that the spirit will manifest itself in the material realm, that soul-conscious persons enable God’s spirit to find an avenue for self-expression and to manifest His spirit ideals in the material realm.

Those who become aware of their actual identity as their soul soon develop a kinship with all living things and a progressive obligation to all present and future humanity — The Ideal. This ideal and the ideals of the spirit project onto the material through cooperation between the soul and the spirit and by experiencing the compassion and empathy of the soul’s purely unselfish humanitarian endeavours God’s spirit is thereby enabled to achieve will-to-action in the material world. There are numerous records of highly spiritualized persons over a period of hundreds of years and it was their cumulative efforts which created the irresistible drawing power necessary to attract the Spirit of Divine Consciousness and hold it here in this world for the benefit of all of humanity, but very little is known about these things.

Like rainclouds hovering over a drought-stricken land it is now a potential waiting to become actualized in those human beings who will make the necessary spiritual transformation and consecrate and dedicate their lives to the highest levels of moral and spiritual existence necessary to initiate the invasion of the finite by the infinite, and the concomitant appearance of the spiritual in the material. The manifestation of the Divine Consciousness upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality. It is at work here.