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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font size="4">The Psychic Being</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THE psychic
is like an electric wire that connects the generator with the lamp; the lamp
being the body, the visible form. Its function is likewise, that is to say, if
the psychic were not there in Matter, it could have no direct contact with the
Divine. It is because of the psychic presence that there can be a direct contact
between Matter and the Divine. And every human being can be told: &quot;You carry
the Divine within you, you have only to enter within yourself and you will find
Him.&quot; It is a direct, special transmuting infusion into the most inconscient and obscure Matter to awaken it once more step by step to the
Divine Consciousness, the Divine Presence and finally the Divine Himself.</p>

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is a thing characteristic of earthly creatures. It is a speciality of the
earth. But only in the human being does the psychic become more conscious, more
formed and also more independent; it is there individualised. It is the
presence of the psychic that makes of man an exceptional being, so much so that
beings of other domains in the universe, those, for example, belonging to what
Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind, the demi-gods and even the gods are very eager
to take a physical body upon earth so that they can have the experience of the
psychic. These beings possess certainly many qualities which men have not, but
they lack this direct Divine Presence which is quite exceptional, which is a
fact of the earth and is found nowhere else. All these inhabitants of the
higher worlds, of Higher Mind and Overmind and other regions do not possess a
psychic being.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Naturally,
the beings of the vital world do not have it either. They do not regret it,
they do not want it. In their origin, of course, they descended directly from
the Divine, but that was only in their origin and it is so long ago. Now they
have no direct contact with the Divine within them, they do not have 
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>the psychic being. If they
had converted themselves under these conditions nothing would have remained of
them, because they are made wholly of the opposite movement. They are entirely
made of self-assertion, despotic power, alienation from the origin and the
utmost disdain for all that is pure and beautiful and noble. Those only, very
rare, among them who wish to be converted do one thing immediately: take a
physical body. But others do not want it; that ties them, restricts them to a
rule which they defy.</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
is a fact – I do not like to say it often to him, for he has such a high
opinion of himself that he needs no encouragement, but it is a fact and hence I
am obliged to state – that man has this exceptional virtue of having in him the
psychic being. But to tell you the truth he does not seem to turn it to good
account, he does not appear to consider it at all as a desirable thing, so far
as one can judge from the manner in which he treats this Presence. He prefers
to it his mental ideas, he prefers to it his vital desires, he prefers to it
his bodily habits.</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There is a
story in the Bible which I always liked. Two brothers were there, Esau and
Jacob. Esau returns home hungry and tells his brother Jacob that he is very
hungry. He was so hungry that he proposed to his brother, &quot;Listen, if you give
me your dish of pottage (Jacob had prepared a dish of pottage) I will give over
to you my birthright.&quot; One can understand the story in quite a superficial
way. But it has a deeper meaning. The birthright is the right of being the son
of God. And the man was ready to give up his divine right in order to eat
because he was hungry. It is a very old story, but it is eternally true.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>At
its origin, the psychic begins by a kind of a divine spark within oneself, a spark
of the divine consciousness. Out of this spark will slowly emerge an
independent conscious being which will have its own action and its own will</p>

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progress of the psychic consists in its formation, building and organisation.
It grows into a conscious individuality through successive lives; for there can
be progress only upon earth, in the physical world; it is not possible
everywhere. In the psychic
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 121<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>world there
is a kind of rest, full of beatitude. One remains there as one is, still,
without moving.</p>

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progress is like the progress of a child that grows. It is a continuous growth.
For a long time, in most human beings the psychic is a continuously growing
entity. It is not a fully individualised, fully conscious being and master of
itself. It needs to be born in many lives one after another so that it may
build itself and become fully conscious.</p>

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that has an end. There comes a moment when the being is fully built up fully
individualised, fully master of itself and its destiny. When one such psychic
being incarnates in a human body, it makes a great difference. This human being
is, so to say, born free; he is not bound to circumstances or surroundings or
heredity like ordinary human beings. He comes into the world and he has the
impression that he has come purposely to accomplish something, he has a work to
do, a mission to fulfil.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>From
that point of view the progress of his growth has ended. That is to say, it is
no longer necessary for him to be reborn in a body. Till then reincarnation was
obligatory. For it is in the physical life and in the physical body that he
grows little by little until he becomes a wholly conscious being. But once he is
completely formed, he is free, in the sense that he can, at will, take a body
or not take it.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>When
a psychic being incarnates, it precipitates itself down into the inconscience,
because the physical world and even a human consciousness, whatever it may be,
are very unconscious in comparison with the psychic consciousness. It is as if
it fell on its head and it is stunned. Generally, but for some rare exceptions,
for a long time it knows nothing; it does not know where it is, what it does,
nor why it is there, nothing. It is in a great difficulty to express itself,
especially in a baby who has not a brain but only the embryo of a brain. So it
is very rare for a child to show that it contains within itself an exceptional
being. That happens, but generally it takes time.</p>

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psychic awakes slowly from its dazed condition and slowly it becomes aware that
it is there for some reason and by choice. But the intensive mental education
that one usually receives shuts out completely the psychic consciousness. Then
a<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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circumstances, happenings of all kinds, emotions and sensations and various
other things are needed to open the inner doors and to enable one to begin to
remember – remember that one has come from another world, one has come for a
very definite reason. If the psychic however had chanced to fall upon a little
knowledge instead of falling into a world of ignorance, there could have been
a quicker contact.</p>

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are not very many fully developed souls upon earth. Evidently those who have
reached a certain culture, a certain growth, a certain individualisation have
instinctively the tendency to come together and form groups. It is then that
we come across in particular epochs and climes fully formed beings gathering
together. But you must not believe that that gives in any way the exact measure
of human culture and growth. That is only a spray of foam on the surface. Even
among those who already form a selection, there is not perhaps one in a
thousand who can be called truly an individual being, conscious of himself,
united with his psychic being, governed by his inner law and therefore
partially at least if not wholly free from external influences; because being a
conscious entity when these influences come he sees them, those that seem to
agree with his inner growth and normal development he accepts and those that
contradict he rejects. And instead of being a chaos, or in any case a frightful
mixture, he is an organised individual being, conscious of himself, moving in
life, knowing where he wants to go and how to go.</p>

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is the best of mankind that Nature is capable of producing. They are men
still, but the top of mankind. They are ready to become something else. But
unless and until one becomes that, one remains in greater part an animal with
only just a little beginning of manhood. It is only that that one can call <st1:State><st1:place>Man.</st1:place></st1:State>
And I am saying this in the hope that you will become such a one.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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