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Chapter 6 Man in the Universe “Out of Life it struggles upward into Mind in which the unit becomes awake to itself and its world, and in that awakening the universe gains the leverage it required for its supreme work, it gains self-conscious individuality. But Mind takes up the work to continue, not to complete it. It is a laborer of acute but limited intelligence who takes the confused materials offered by Life and, having improved, adapted, varied, classified according to its power, hands them over to the supreme Artist of our Divine manhood. That Artist dwells in supermind; for supermind is superman.”“The universe and the individual are necessary to each other in their ascent. Always indeed they exist for each other and profit by each other. Universe is a diffusion of the Divine All in infinite Space and Time, the individual its concentration within limits of Space and Time. Universe seeks in infinite extension the Divine totality it feels itself to be but cannot entirely realize; for in extension existence drives at a pluralistic sum of itself which can neither be the primal nor the final unit, but only a recurring decimal without end or beginning.”“On the other hand, it is by means of the universe that the individual is impelled to realize himself. Not only is it his foundation, his means, his field, the stuff of the Divine Work; but also, since the concentration of the universal Life which he is takes place within limits and is not like the intensive unity of Brahman (ultimate reality) free from all conception of bound and term, he must necessarily universalize and impersonalize himself in order to manifest the Divine All, which is his reality.” “The universe comes to the individual as Life, — a dynamism the entire secret of which he has to master and a mass of colliding results, a whirl of potential energies out of which he has to disengage some supreme order and some yet unrealized harmony. This is after all the real sense of man’s progress.”
