Book II Chapter XXVII pp. 1008-1009

The three powers which present themselves to our life as the

three keys to its mystery are the individual, the cosmic entity and

the Reality present in both and beyond them. These three mysteries

of existence would find in the life of the supramental being a

united fulfilment of their harmony. He will be the perfected and

complete individual, fulfilled in the satisfaction of his growth

and self-expression; for all his elements would be carried to a

highest degree and integrated in some kind of comprehensive

largeness. What we are striving towards is completeness and

harmony; an imperfection and incapacity or a discord of our

nature is that from which inwardly we most suffer. But this

is because of our incompleteness of being, our imperfect self

knowledge, our imperfect possession of our self and our nature.

A complete self-knowledge in all things and at all moments

is the gift of the supramental gnosis and with it a complete

self-mastery, not merely in the sense of control of Nature but

in the sense of a power of perfect self-expression in Nature.

Whatever knowledge of self there would be, would be perfectly

embodied in the will of the self, the will perfectly embodied in

the action of the self; the result would be the self’s complete

dynamic self-formulation in its own nature. In the lower grades

of gnostic being, there would be a limitation of self-expression

according to the variety of the nature, a limited perfection in

order to formulate some side, element or combined harmony of

elements of some Divine Totality, a restricted selection of powers

from the cosmic figure of the infinitely manifold One. But in the

supramental being this need of limitation for perfection would

disappear; the diversity would not be secured by limitation but

by a diversity in the power and hue of the Supernature: the

same whole of being and the same whole of nature would express

themselves in an infinitely diverse fashion; for each being

would be a new totality, harmony, self-equation of the One

Being. What would be expressed in front or held behind at any

moment would depend not on capacity or incapacity, but on the

dynamic self-choice of the Spirit, its delight of self-expression,

on the truth of the Divine’s will and joy of itself in the individual

and, subordinately, on the truth of the thing that had to be done

through the individual in the harmony of the totality. For the

complete individual is the cosmic individual, since only when

we have taken the universe into ourselves—and transcended it

—can our individuality be complete.

 

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