The arrival of the Mind of Light at the evolutionary stage marks a definite transition from the life in Ignorance with all its attendant turmoil and confusion to the great life governed by it, the life of a new humanity. That is not to say that it is the culmination, the desired total fulfilment of what is intended in this long process in Time. The prospects are that life of humanity will be a harmonious expression of the powers of the spirit, a possibility that can enlighten and uplift the human effort itself, raise its degree and its quality of perfection, thus providing an impetus for the locked human potential to open itself into growing dimensions of the triple splendour of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, a movement in rhythms of the Truth and the Right and the Vast, satyam-ŗtam-bŗhat, not in its comprehensive fullness but as an apt beginning. The human instrumentation will start lending itself to a living in the truth and a mind at present working in ignorance becoming a mind of Light. All that we have been thinking about, all our rationalistic formulations, may they be based on science or on thought, will undergo a radical change, that is, if we regard “consciousness and not life and form as the fundamental and essential evolutionary principle and its emergence and full development of its possibilities as the object of the evolutionary urge. The inconscience of Matter cannot be an insuperable obstacle; for in this inconscience can be detected an involved consciousness which has to evolve; life and mind are steps and instruments of that evolution; the purposeful drive and workings of the inconscient material Energy are precisely such as we can attribute to the presence of an involved consciousness automatic, not using thought like the mind but guided by something like an inherent material instinct practically infallible in all its steps, not yet cognitive but miraculously creative.” When this inherent material instinct starts responding to the descending powers of the superior planes, then we have entered into the domain where the Intermediate Race becomes the firm gain of the evolution. This is the preparatory yogic work that has now made the sequel of swift-moving events operationally inevitable and assured.

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