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process: just as many knots, polarities, impossible oppositions, contradictions and ambiguities. Religion or spiritual life; belief and superstition or reason and method; the rule of money-power or the law of sharing; productivity or service; art or utility; contemplation or action; hierarchy or anarchy; free growth of planned development; austerity or wealth; veneration or exploitation; technology or autonomy; the law of desire or that of progress; the truth received and revealed, or the truth discovered through experience… What would be the relationships of the apprentices of the new world with gods and cults, with the global market, with the scientific and technological discoveries, with the industry of entertainment, with medicines, with governments, with media, with politics and with world events? Certainly we have along the years been in a position to explore the almost infinite range of attitudes towards any one of these questions and yet we are not yet collectively capable of exerting a spontaneous discernment that would be sure and founded in the awareness of the True.

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What had She taught regarding religions, religion and the religious attitude?

For many thousands of Her children, She had long been, She had always been, the Mother, the divine Mother that is to say that Her identification with the Ishwari of the Supreme was achieved and numberless times verified in their experience. Nonetheless She would caution against the tendency to be satisfied with a devotion that leaves the nature unchanged: She and He had come for an effective transformation of the human consciousness, not for perpetuating the separation.

It was no longer sufficient to adore.

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