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376 Hymns of the Atris
substance of his being, brightens an ever loftier flame of will
and vaster light of knowledge, advances the boundaries of his
consciousness, raises the degrees and enlarges the breadth of
his power, force and strength, confirms an intenser beatitude
of joy and liberates his soul into immeasurable peace that man
becomes capable of immortality.
To widen is to acquire new births. The aspiring material
creature becomes the straining vital man; he in turn transmutes
himself into the subtle mental and psychical being; this subtle
thinker grows into the wide, multiple and cosmic man open on
all sides of him to all the multitudinous inflowings of the Truth;
the cosmic soul rising in attainment strives as the spiritual man
for a higher peace, joy and harmony. These are the five Aryan
types, each of them a great people occupying its own province
or state of the total human nature. But there is also the absolute
Aryan who would conquer and pass beyond these states to the
transcendental harmony of them all.
It is the supramental Truth that is the instrument of this
great inner transfiguration. That replaces mentality by luminous
vision and the eye of the gods, mortal life by breath and force
of the infinite existence, obscure and death-possessed substance
by the free and immortal conscious-being. The progress of man
must be therefore, first, his self-expanding into a puissant vitality
capable of sustaining all vibrations of action and experience and
a clear mental and psychical purity; secondly, an outgrowing of
this human light and power and its transmutation into an infinite
Truth and an immortal Will.
Our normal life and consciousness are a dark or at best
a starlit Night. Dawn comes by the arising of the Sun of that
higher Truth and with Dawn there comes the effective sacrifice.
By the sacrifice the Dawn itself and the lost Sun are constantly
conquered out of the returning Night and the luminous herds
rescued from the darkling cave of the Panis; by the sacrifice
the rain of the abundance of heaven is poured out for us and
the sevenfold waters of the higher existence descend impetuously
upon our earth because the coils of the obscuring Python, the allenfolding
and all-withholding Vritra, have been cloven asunder