Another Choice

terrestrial species experiences, although those animals that share our intimacy gradually lose their natural immunity and soon contract some of our diseases, just as some of our sentiments little by little invest them.

The body is the workshop of evolution.

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Seized by these new perspectives, we look.

And this internal axis to which we are now born and which ever since seems to be delivering in our physical consciousness a new person, a person for whom Sacredness is central to all existence, - this axis of conscious Force which stirs and vibrates in our inner body, appears with increasing evidence as the engine and the light of the evolutionary path.

This path must be found through the body, in the body, from the material body.

This passage from our superior animal species to a new species whose physical consciousness will be free of death and instruments, must be effectuated at the cellular level.

And this will become possible only when we shall have first found, or recovered, with all of our parts, this sense of the Supreme.

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We seem now to understand and to sense how this movement of the Consciousness rejoining Itself in the cells of the body so that another Principle of physical existence, a Principle of Oneness from beyond our frontiers, may begin to incarnate in matter – how this movement will trigger cellular changes. When the mental principle came from “above” and rejoined, in a state of individualization still very coarse and rudimentary, a nascent urge for clarity, precision, distance, order and understanding, refinement and perspective of the physical consciousness, it was the body that

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