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<b><font size="4">A
Global Humanity</font></b></p>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">A GLOBAL view of humanity is
becoming more and more insistent, unavoidable and inevitable. It is
being forced upon the normal consciousness of mankind so that the
ordinary life itself has to be conducted and lived according to the
demands of that view. It is this that humanity is one, that mankind
as a whole is a single organism. Even like an individual being, the
collective being too is a unit, a close knit living unit. As the
individual has different parts and limbs, organs and systems, so is
humanity composed of nations and races, cultures and religions. And
as the parts of the &quot;body natural&quot; do not exist by
themselves, independently of one another, each for its own sake
without regard for others, so do the various human aggregates that
form the &quot;body politic&quot; live and move intimately together,
for a common purpose in a united functioning.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">There is an aim, a goal to
which' humanity moves in obedience to a cosmic purpose, in accordance
with a cosmic law. The principle of evolution has given an expression
of formula to this cosmic law and purpose, although it is more or
less an outward expression and in reference to an outward phenomenon.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The different limbs of an
organism are held together and they work together harmoniously. The
whole world, as we are finding it today, is indissolubly one. There
is an inter. relation and interaction that compel them all to stand
together or fall together. This is, however, a static unity and
harmony, a harmony that is in the being, in essence. For in the
outward working there is always a play of discord – quarrels and
rivalries, competition and conflict, struggle and</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">battle.
Indeed this seems to be the rule, the other seems more an ideal than
a fact. The unity that is found actually is rather the unity of a
locked fight. Within the individual the same thing is there. There is
a maladjustment among the organs and limbs, not only physically but
also psychologically. But all the same beyond and beside this play of
discord there is an inherent and overruling unity and harmony which
creates the personality or individuality of the human person. The
characteristic of the human person is his forward-looking gaze-he has
a purpose in life. This is exactly the dynamic element, the something
more that is needed for the fulfilment of the organic unity. This
element is what we know as the principle of progress which is the
psychological name for evolution. In other words, there is in man and
in the world not only a static unity and harmony in essence, but a
progressive unity and harmony in manifestation. The individual moves
towards the health and growth of the body and mind and the spirit. If
one life is not sufficient for the purpose, as some seers declare,
several lives are at the disposal of the individual to achieve it. In
what sense can the same or something similar be said of the
collective or group life?</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">There is the view, an old-world
view, of eternal recurrence. That is to say, creation is ever the
same; it goes through a cycle of changes, but the cycles repeat </span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">ad
infinitum. </span></I><span style="font-size:12pt;">There is no progress, no forward movement towards a
more and more perfection. Indeed, the cycle of creation is a closed
circle. The idea of progress was very much in vogue at one time. It
was born under the auspices of Romantic Idealism; it was fostered and
strengthened by youthful, Science in the first enthusiasm of her
early discoveries, especially that of the fact of biological
evolution. There has, however, been a setback since, when it was
found that the original picture of evolution – the emergence and
growth of species in the course of a few thousand years is far from
being true, that evolution means not thousands but millions of years.
And when archaeologists discovered that men could build hygienic
cities, run democratic states, discuss and argue acutely on recondite
problems of life and philosophy, women knew the use of ornaments and
jewels of consummate beauty and craftsmanship in epochs when they
were expected to be no more than wild denizens of the cave </span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">or
the forest, the belief in human progress, at least along a steady
straight line, was very much shaken.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Yet an imperious necessity of
the idea, almost as an inevitable ingredient of human consciousness,
always exists and constantly makes its presence felt. If recurrence
is the law of creation, this idea with its will to fruition is also a
recurrent phenomenon. A modern form of it has been given a very
dynamic drive in the Marxian gospel. A socio-economic progress,
however, is and can be only a part, in fact, a result of a wider and
deeper progress.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">We say then that the fraternity
and unity of mankind has been a constant dream and aspiration, a
settled ideal. And in the circumstances of today it is becoming more
and mace evident that the idea is a secret fact of existence and that
there is an overwhelming urge in Nature to bring it out and establish
it as a manifest and concrete reality. If we review the history of
mankind once again, not measuring it by its centuries but by its
millenniums, not by its apparent habits and outward forms but by
inner forces and attitudes, we shall discover that it is the story of
the unfoldment of a collective fulfilment, of an ascension in grades
of consciousness towards an ever higher and vaster truth and reality.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Viewed as a progressive growth
of consciousness and transformation of nature, man's advance has been
marked out in a few very definite stages. The first was the purely
animal man – Pasu – when man lived merely as a physical being,
concerned solely about his body. Then came the Pisacha, the man of
vital urges in their crudest form, the man of ignorant passions and
dark instincts who has been imaged in the popular mind as the ghoul.
At the next stage, with a further release of the consciousness, when
the larger vital impulses come into play man becomes the Rakshasa,
the demon. Egoistic hunger for possession, enjoyment, enlarged and
increased appetite are his characteristics. Next came the Asura, the
Titan, the egoistic mental man in his earlier avatar seeking to
emerge out of the purely vital nature. Ambition and pride are his
guiding spirit. Prometheus is his prototype. There are still two
higher types which have been established in the human consciousness
and in the world atmosphere as dynamic ideals, if not as common
concrete facts of the material</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">world.
The first is the ethical man, who seeks to govern his life according
to some principles of light and purity, such, for example, as
unselfishness, altruism, chivalry, self-abnegation, rectitude,
truthfulness etc. He is the Sattwic man, as known in India. There is
also a still higher category, where consciousness endeavours to go
beyond mind, enters into the consciousness of the Spirit; then we
have the spiritual man, the saint and the sage. Beyond lie the
supra-mental domains formed of the consciousness of the gods.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Man, individually and
collectively, has passed and is passing through these steps of
evolution. The last one is his goal at the present stage. To be a
saint, seer or sage is not enough for man. He must be a god. Indeed
when he has succeeded to be a god then only would it be possible for
him to become what a saint or a seer or sage has to be in order to
fulfil him&shy;self totally and integrally. The human race as a whole
is progressing along the same line towards the same consummation.
That is the secret purpose and end of Nature, to evolve a growing
developing material form housing, embodying higher and wider ranges
of consciousness, integrating all elements into a more and more
intimate and inviolable unity and harmony. '</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">This progress towards ever
higher and wider consciousness means also in man's social or
collective life the formation of larger and larger aggregates,
unification of mankind in ever widening groups. From man the solitary
animal, through the family, the clan, the tribe to the nation the
race has been increasing the circle of its sympathy and kinship. The
birth of the modern nation out of regional and local groupings is a
triumph of the emerging consciousness in humanity pointing to another
signal and supreme triumph, the emergence of the global sense hi man
that is to bind humanity as a single indissoluble indivisible unity
in actual life.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The aggregates are meant to
express, apart from the growing unity, a diversity of achievements in
the collective consciousness marking and enriching that unity. The
highest, the largest aggregate attained at the present moment is as I
have said, that of the nation, the lower and lesser aggregates have
been subsumed under it. The principle of integration in its. graded
course is precisely this that the new unity absorbs the</span></FONT></P>
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lesser units as its components, some find their place in it in a
transmuted form and function – those that are of use in the new
disposition – others that had truth only for the past disappear or
remain as vestiges of an extinct reality. The clan and the tribe have
practically disappeared as living realities; the family has been
maintaining itself still as a functioning unit, but it has
considerably changed its features and in recent times it has been
undergoing revolutionary transmutations. The rigours of the system
prevailing in the old world have all but gone, they have been reduced
to the minimum; the system has become more or less a mere outline,
the substance and the details have become very vague and fluid. It
may come out with quite a new connotation in the not very distant
future. The nation, then, as the living unit of aggregation today, is
on the move again towards a yet more enlarged aggregate. Empire was a
blind and violent attempt at this greater aggregation. The
Commonwealth of more recent times was a conscious, deliberate and
healthier endeavour towards the same goal. The various trials with
regard to a league of nations is also a conscious and deliberate,
although somewhat groping experiment in the same line.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Man's attempt to surpass himself
and establish a superhuman race is a conscious and deliberate process
and the attempt can be successful only through such an willed
discipline, </span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">s</span><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Ä</span></FONT><span style="font-size:12pt;">dhan</span><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Ä</span></FONT><span style="font-size:12pt;">.
</span></I><span style="font-size:12pt;">In the same way, a supranational human unity will be possible as
a parallel eventuality to the same process of individual discipline.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Humanity is evolving and
developing the various groupings to manifest fundamental aspects of
its cosmic person. Ancient Egypt, for example, brought us in contact
with an occult world and a subliminal consciousness. We know also of
the nature of the Hebraic genius, the moral fervour, the serious,
almost grim spirit of Righteousness that formed and even now forms a
major strain in the European or Christian culture and civilisation.
The famous &quot;sweetness and light&quot; of the Hellenic mind
supplied the other strain. The Roman genius for law and government is
a well-known commonplace of history. Well-known also India's
spirituality. All these modes of consciousness are elements –
forces, energies and personalities – that build up the godhead of
humanity. Peoples and races in </span></FONT></P>
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past were the scattered limbs of the godhead-scattered and isolated
from one another, because of the original uncon&shy;sciousness and
sharp egocentricity out of which Nature started its course of
evolution. The </span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">disjecta membra </span></I><span style="font-size:12pt;">are being collected together by
a growing consciousness.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Such then is the destiny of man
and mankind-man to rise to higher heights of consciousness beyond
mental reason that are not governed by the principle of division,
separation, antithesis but by the principle of unity, identity,
mutuality and totality. In other words, he will take his seat in the
status of his soul, his inner and inmost being, his divine
personality where he is one with all beings and with the world. This
is a rare and difficult realisation for man as he is today, but
tomorrow it will be his normal nature. The individual will live in
his total being and therefore in and through other individuals; as a
consequence the nature too in each will undergo a divine
transmutation, a marvellous sea-change.</span></FONT></P>
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<FONT STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Humanity as a race will then
present the figure of a homogeneous unit – it will be a unity of
many diversified elements, not simply, however, a composition of
discrete individuals, but of varied aggregations of individuals –
even as the body is not merely composed of cells, but also these
cells are collected in aggregates forming various limbs and systems,
each again with its own identity and function. Indeed, the cosmic or
global humanity is very likely to be pyramidal in structure-not a
flat and level construction. There will be an overall harmony and
integration containing a rich variety of gradations – gradations of
consciousness, as even now there are: only the whole will be more
luminous, that is to say, more. conscious and more concordant; for at
the top, on the higher levels, new lights will show themselves and
men embodying those lights. They will radiate and spread out,
infiltrate into the lower ranges something of their enlightenment and
harmony and happiness which will bring about a global purification
and a new dispensation; even the material world, the vegetable and
mineral domains too may be taken up into this luminous consummation
and earth become the Garden of Eden that it once was, suffused with a
new glory. </span></FONT></P>
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