Questions and Meditations

It is a fire that may seem destructive, so complicit is our very constitution with all that imitates, deceives, conceals and disguises.

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It is a fire that compels the whole being to keep progressing towards ever more concrete union, transparency and receptivity.

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The terrestrial circumstances seem to be undergoing an acceleration, akin to that of a ripening abscess about to burst.

Can one still meaningfully strive to offer to the new consciousness the most cohesive and harmonized instruments one can, even while one still stands this side of the evolutionary threshold? To offer trained bodies that are disciplined, harmonious and enduring, vitalities that are noble and wholesome, generous and refined, intelligences that are luminously developed and oriented, impartial and open to the higher knowledge, all three united in an effective complementarity?

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Is there a shortcut? A quicker approach to serve the Earth and the Future?

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Perhaps: one can then withdraw from the instruments – from the tyranny of the vital and the monopoly of thought: one can desist from them, cease from counting on them to fill the daily tread and one can turn more exclusively and more actively to That alone and to its force of truth. But to that end one must accept to be somehow diminished, divested of all urge and pleasure in relations end exchanges, accept a sort of transitory imbecility, nullity, inaptitude.

Yet one also finds oneself liberated, released from a whole zone of tensions: ambition, rivalry, the desire to please and to attract, the thrust to prove

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