Savitri has vanquished Death who, transformed, has offered four times exceptional boons to her, boons for herself and for her lover Satyavan. But she has her own great preferences to make and excercise, specific choices for men and for the soul of the earth, it waiting this long for the moment. Savitri is quite clear about her stipulations. She wants our beings to be made in God’s image, she yearns for this earthly life to become the life divine. In a humble but determined way, she sets aside what she was offered in the freedom of the individual in oneness with the transcendental, in the will of his countless possibilities of a life over there. But she declines. The point is well seen and she is acclaimed by the Supreme as his Force at work to uplift earth’s fate, that she is the revealing voice of his immortal Word. Therefore to do that work, she shall be born in man’s dubious hours in forms that hide the soul’s divinity. In the sequel of time there shall glow, like a horned moon, the spirit’s crescent splendour on mind. Not only that. One day God’s Beyond shall reveal its hidden face. But now mind is all and there has to be the growth beyond it, it being not the summit of things. It is actually the Divine’s soul of adventure who is climbing from utter Inconscience to the vasts of Supernature. That is the human potential which must develop for the higher powers to enter into it. That is the meaning of evolution. The first state of this superior evolution, the preparatory step, is the arrival of the human élite with perceptions that go beyond the formulations of a rigid rationality, with a mind swift and supple enough to receive striking intuitions from the greater brighter worlds. When this shall be done, there will appear the Intermediate Race linking the human to the superman.

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