Which town?

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For humanity is the site of the evolution of consciousness in Matter = man is the bridge, the vessel and the instrument. In the human being persist the forms of whatever was ever attempted and secretly vibrate the moulds of That which will come. And for ages already, it has been under the aegis of the ego and of separation that humanity has learnt to function, to survive, to progress – and to harm. This miraculous apprenticeship, at once marvelous and malevolent, took place with the help of the life-forces and then of the mind-forces, and all the planes and all the powers of existence have, from near or far, participated – or rivaled in the exercise of their influences.

For, along with the separation comes the will for power and domination.

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It is thus that the Second World War had for its stake the terrestrial destiny of the human species. In one outcome, humanity would be subjected to an abusive totalitarian reign which would push very far away in time the very possibility of any evolutionary advance; in the other, the freedom of choice would be essentially preserved – the indispensable condition for the emergence and development of the true consciousness.

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