Another Choice

But it is the coming, future stage that inspires us, that calls to us, which we need and miss and which gives the measure of the step to be made.

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It is said that certain saints or yogis have been able to develop the capacity of prolonging at will the life of the body, or to be no longer subjected to heat or cold or the need for sleep, or to control breath for extended periods.

Probably such capacities may help gain time, that is, grant us more years of corporeal life so as to clear and clean out more sub-consciousness and awaken more response in our substance.

But it is not the conquest of death – of the habit, or the principle, or the power of death.

It is not the true freedom of consciousness incarnate.

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Little by little, by touches of a strange sort of perception, one approaches the sense of a material body which will be moved directly by consciousness: directly, is that to mean that there would no longer be any instrumentation, any organ?

No.

But there would be, there will be a mutation or an atrophy of a certain number of organs and certain constituents of our present physiognomy will disappear – such as the teeth and the nails.

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There is a perfection of expression in the essential form of the human being, which enables it to manifest the consciousness of tomorrow, but it will be lightened and unified: relieved of those organs no longer necessary or replaced, such as the intestines and the genital parts, and it will

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