These persistent ideals of the race are at once the contradiction of its no- rmal experience & the affirmation of higher & deeper experiences which are abnormal to humanity & only to be attained, in their organised entirety, by a revolutionary individual effort or an evolutionary general progression.To know, possess & be the divine being in an animal & egoistic consciousness, to convert out twilit or obscure phyiscal mentali-ty into the plenary supramental illumination, to build peace & a self-exi- stent bliss where there is only a stress of transitory satisfactions besieg- ed by physical pain & emotional suffering to esablish an infinite freedom in a world which presents itself as a group of mechanical necessities, to discocver & realise the immortal life in a body subjeccted to death & con- stant muntation,—this is offered to us as the manifestation of God in Ma- tter & the goal of Nature in her terrestrial evolution