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		<i>The New Humanity</i> </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">THE world is in the throes of a new creation and the pangs of
that new birth have made mother Earth restless. It is no longer
a far-off ideal that our imagination struggles to visualise, nor a
prophecy that yet remains to be fulfilled. It is Here and Now.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Although we may not know it, the New Man—the divine
race of humanity is already among us. It may be in our next
neighbour, in our nearest brother, even in myself. Only a thin
veil covers it. It marches just behind the line. It waits for an
occasion to throw off the veil and place itself in the forefront.
We are living in strenuous times in which age-long institutions
are going down and new forces rearing their heads, old habits
are being cast off and new impulsions acquired. In every
sphere of life, we see the urgent demand for a recasting, a fresh
valuation of things. From the base to the summit, from the
economic and political life to the artistic and spiritual, humanity
is being shaken to bring out a new expression and articulation.
There is the hidden surge of a Power, the secret stress of a<br>
Spirit that can no longer suffer to remain in the shade and
behind the mask, but wills to come out in the broad daylight
and be recognised in its plenary virtues.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That Power, that Spirit has been growing and gathering its
strength during all the millenniums that humanity has lived
through. On the momentous day when man appeared on earth,
the Higher Man also took his birth. Since the hour the Spirit
refused to be imprisoned in its animal sheath and came out as
man, it approached by that very uplift a greater freedom and a
vaster movement. It was the crest of that underground wave
which peered over the surface from age to age, from clime to
clime through the experiences of poets and prophets and sages—
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<font face="Times New Roman">And now the days of captivity or rather of inner preparation
are at an end. The voice in the wilderness was necessary, for it
was a call and a communion in the silence of the soul. Today
the silence seeks utterance. Today the shell is ripe enough to
break and to bring out the mature and full-grown being. The
king that was in hiding comes in glory and triumph, in his
complete regalia.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Another humanity is rising out of the present human species.
The beings of the new order are everywhere and it is they who
will soon hold sway over earth, be the head and front of the
terrestrial evolution in the cycle that is approaching as it was
with man in the cycle that is passing away. What will this new
order of being be like ? It will be what man is not, also what
man is. It will not be man, because it will overstep the limitations and incapacities inherent in man; and it will be man by
the realisation of those fundamental aspirations and yearnings
that have troubled and consoled the deeper strata—the
soul—in him throughout the varied experiences of his terrestrial
life.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The New Man will be Master—and not slave. He will be 
master, first, of himself and then of the world. Man as he actually is, is but a slave. He has no personal voice or choice; the
determining soul, the <i>Ishwara,</i> in him is sleep-bound and hushed.
He is a mere plaything in the hands of nature and circumstances. Therefore it is that Science has become his supreme
<i>Dharmashastra;</i> for science seeks to teach us the moods of Nature
and the methods of propitiating her. Our actual ideal of man is
that of the cleverest slave. But the New Man will have found
himself and by and according to his inner will, mould and
create his world. He will not be in awe of Nature and in an
attitude of perpetual apprehension and hesitation, but will
ground himself on a secret harmony and union that will declare
him as the lord. We will recognise the New Man by his very
gait and manner, by a certain kingly ease and dominion in
every shade of his expression.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Not that this sovereign power will have anything to do with
aggression or over-bearingness. It will not be a power that feels
itself only by creating an eternal opponent—<i>Erbfeind—</i>by
coming in constant clash with a rival, that seeks to gain victory
by subjugating. It will not be Nietzschean &quot;will<b> </b> to power,&quot;</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">which is, at best, a supreme <i>Asuric</i> power. It will rather be a
Divine Power, for the strength it will exert and the victory it
will achieve will not come from the ego—it is the ego which
requires an object outside and against to feel and affirm itself—but it will come from a higher personal self which is one with
the cosmic soul and therefore with other personal souls. The
Asura, in spite of, or rather, because of his aggressive vehemence betrays a lack of the sovereign power that is calm and at
ease and self-sufficient. The Devic power does not assert but
simply accomplishes; the forces of the world act not as its
opponent but as its instrument. Thus the New Man shall
affirm his individual sovereignty and do so to perfection by
expressing through it his unity with the cosmic powers, with the
infinite godhead. And by being <i>Swarat,</i> Self-Master, he will
become <i>Samrat,</i> world-master.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This mastery will be effected not merely in will, but in mind
and heart also. For the New Man will know not by the intellect
which is egocentric and therefore limited, not by ratiocination
which is an indirect and doubtful process, but by direct vision,
an inner communion, a soul revelation. The new knowledge
will be vast and profound and creative, based as it will be upon
the reality of things and not upon their shadows. Truth will
shine through every experience and every utterance—&quot;a truth
shall have its seat on our speech and mind and hearing&quot;,
so have the Vedas said. The mind and intellect will not be
active and constructive agents but the luminous channel of a
self-luminous knowledge. And the heart too which is now the
field of passion and egoism will be cleared of its noise and
obscurity; a serener sky will shed its pure warmth and translucent glow. The knot will be rent asunder—<i>bhidyate hridaya
granthih—</i>and the vast and mighty streams of another ocean
will flow through. We will love not merely those to whom we
are akin but God's creatures, one and all; we will love not
with the yearning and hunger of a mortal but with the wide
and intense <i>Rasa</i> that lies in the divine identity of souls.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And the new society will be based not upon competition, nor
even upon co-operation. It will not be an open conflict, neither
will it be a convenient compromise of rival individual interests.
It will be the organic expression of the collective soul of
humanity, working and achieving through each and every</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">individual soul its most wide-winging freedom, manifesting the
godhead that is proper to each and every one. It will be an organisation, most delicate and subtle and supple, the members
of which will have no need to live upon one another but in and
through one another. It will be, if you like, a henotheistic
hierarchy in which everyone will be the greatest, since everyone
is all and all everyone simultaneously.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The New Humanity will be something in the mould that we
give to the gods. It will supply the link that we see missing
between gods and men; it will be the race of embodied gods.
Man will attain that thing which has been his first desire and
earliest dream, for which he coveted the gods—Immortality, <i>amritatwam.</i> The mortalities that cut and divide, limit and bind
man make him the sorrowful being he is. These are due to his
ignorance and weakness and egoism. These are due to his soul
itself. It is the soul that requires change, a new birth, as Christ
demanded. Ours is a little soul that has severed itself from the
larger and mightier self that it is. And therefore does it die
every moment and even while living is afraid to live and so lives
poorly and miserably. But the age is now upon us when the<br>
god-like soul anointed with its immortal royalties is ready<b> 
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emerge and claim our salutation.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The breath and the surge of the new creation cannot<b> 
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</b>mistaken. The question that confronts us today is no longer
Whether the New Man, the Super-humanity, will come or if at
all, when; but the question we have to answer is who among
us are ready to be its receptacle, its instrument and embodiment.</font>

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