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These two texts bring us to the threshold of an adventure vaster and truer than all the quests of the past, an adventure that will at last justify the incalculable labor of our species. The lines of action and of conduct, the new “dharma” revealed in them, are the exclusivity of no one, of no group, of no party, of no people, but concern humanity as a whole – at once ferments and guides of the progress of its consciousness.

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But already, at the beginning of the 1950s, addressing not only the inmates of the ashram but all those who were interested in it and in its International Center of Education, She had begun to formulate the basis and the foundations of a collective organization that would be able to serve the harmonious future of the Earth and to define the conditions for its establishment = a site which no country could claim as its own wherein all would be citizens of the world; where the mutual discovery and the fertile meeting of the cultures and peoples through their representatives would promote respect and collaboration, each individual becoming conscious of the spirit and soul of one’s nation of origin and capable of appreciating and embracing the complementary richness of every other culture and people. She so wished that the students and apprentices of a more integral development, more favorable to the evolution of human consciousness, be exposed and brought into contact with the diversity of the civilizing agents. Was She Herself not incarnating, in Her own physical body, the harmonious integration of these vast civilizing currents? The past of Egypt and the Middle East lived on in Her, the incomparable culture of France and its universal values were active in Her, the sense of beauty and dignity in each gesture and each detail which She had assimilated in Japan was joined in Her with the eternal vibrant immensity of the Shakti of India with

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