The problem of physical transformation can be seen, and
tackled, in three ways: the spiritual, the occult, and the intellectual. In the
first, the material cells should be made capable of coming directly in contact
with Love-Consciousness-Power. In the occult process various powers of the
intermediary worlds, the Overmind Gods and Goddesses enter into operation, their
detailed knowledge helping it. In the last possibility, it is the spirit itself
which seizes the problem and starts working from below; this has the merit of
giving precision to the action, something which is kind of scientific, science
being done by the spirit itself. If the three can be combined then, evidently,
the thing will go faster. Without the first nothing is possible, without it the
other two are even illusory. But if the first is combined with them, then
the action becomes much more precise and direct, and rapid.
4 March 1967
This problem of transformation, I see more and more
clearly that there are three approaches to it, three ways of proceeding, and to
be complete the three must be combined. One, naturally the most important one,
is the way that may be called “spiritual”, which is that of contact with Love-Consciousness-Power,
yes, it is that; it is these three aspects: the supreme
Love-Consciousness-Power, and the contact, the identification: to render all
the material cells capable of receiving That and expressing That—to be That.
Of all the means, this is the most powerful, and the
most indispensable.
There is the occult way, which makes all the
intermediary worlds intervene. There is a very detailed knowledge of all the powers
and personalities, all the intermediary regions, and it uses all that. It is
there that one makes use of the divinities of the Overmind. This is in the
second way. Shiva,
And then there is the higher intellectual approach,
which is the projection of a spirit transcending the scientific, which seizes
the problem from below, and which has its importance also. From the viewpoint
of detailed handling, this approach diminishes the approximations, brings a
more direct and precise action.
If the three can be combined, then evidently the thing
will go faster.
Without the first nothing is possible, without it the
others are even illusory: they lead nowhere, you turn round and round indefinitely.
But if you clothe the first with the other two, then I think the action becomes
much more precise and direct and rapid.
This is the result of the “studies” these days.