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The ordinary mentality provides a sort of protection against the unknowable. It may still be impossible for a being born human not to be invested, impregnated and kneaded by it : it is indeed the cohesion of separation that tells us that “even if the Divine exists, it is over there far away and we are here and must make do as long as we have life”, and all of our social contracts and regulations aim at providing each person with opportunities to contribute to society while receiving certain guarantees from it in return. To this end, so the reasoning goes, it is not of the Divine that we have need, but of a just and well-equipped society. But to find oneself alone before the Supreme, to expect everything from the Grace, to learn to rely on nothing but Her - in life itself and for the very existence of the body…, is it reasonable? Is it not rather a manner of escapism, or a premature imagining? And so, little by little, incrementally, calculations, precautions, forecast and preventive measures took hold again. According to this ordinary mentality, which is that of the herd, the first duty of every society is to front the unknown relying on its own strengths. The possibility of the actual existence of a higher consciousness that knows and sees and can accomplish the good of every being as of the whole, is ranked in the realm of the subjective experience of the individual who will explore it at one’s own risks and perils or defer to it out of belief. She and He had often pointed out that the Divine is as near or as far as one has been led to think and all Their work was to find It here itself again, in material terms, an active Presence to which each one can learn to unite. Whenever one would go before Her, the body itself sensed and grasped this reality, which was at long last the answer to these ages of evolution. *

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