There is a consciousness of the physical mind, the cellular mind, which is constantly conscious of the divine Presence and is keen on accepting nothing but That. So the whole work is to shift the origin from the unconscious to this conscious physical mind. It, and not the habitual mind, that should cause the movement. It means fighting against age-old habit. But the secret is to know how to get things done, done by the Power behind or above instead of doing all by the mind’s effort. Possibly it is not this body which will change; it might be a new being. But where from will this new being come? It could be in the same way as man has come out of the animal. But the stages between the animal and man are missing. It would be after two or three—or four or ten or twenty—intermediary beings that the new manner, the supramental manner of creating, will come. There is “something” that is doing and it is witnessing at the same time, and at the same time it is the action that does it: the three. The great thing is, it is that “Something” who is doing it, everything, everything in the conscious physical. There is the problem of material contagion, it affecting the conscious physical mind. In material consciousness there is the material mind that has marvellously responded, but it has not yet the power to assert itself, assert against what comes from outside, this perpetual contagion from contact with others. However, when all of a sudden the Contact becomes conscious and the sense of Identity comes, it is like a hosanna of all the cells which say: “Oh! Yes, yes, it is true! So it is true...” This comes perhaps a hundred times a day, but it does not stay.

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