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First edition 2020

“In a profound sense it is the call and attraction of the future that makes the past and present, and that future will be more and more seen to be the growth of the godhead in the human being which is the high fate of this race that thinks and wills and labours towards its own perfection. This is a strain that we shall hear more and more, the song of the growing godhead of the kind, of human unity, of spiritual freedom, of the coming supermanhood of man, of the divine ideal seeking to actualise it self in the life of the earth, of the call to the individual to rise to his godlike possibility....” (Sri Aurobindo)

“If a spiritual unfolding on earth is the hidden truth of our birth into Matter, if it is fundamentally an evolution of consciousness that has been taking place in Nature, then man as he is cannot be the last term of that evolution: he is too imperfect an expression of the Spirit, Mind itself a too limited form and instrumentation; Mind is only a middle term of consciousness, the mental being can only be a transitional being. If, then, man is incapable of exceeding mentality, he must be surpassed and Supermind and superman must manifest and take the lead of the creation. But if his mind is capable of opening to what exceeds it, then there is no reason why man himself should not arrive at supermind and supermanhood or at least lend his mentality, life and body to an evolution of that greater term of the Spirit manifesting in Nature.” (Sri Aurobindo)

“Each time we try not to be ordinary men, not to live the ordinary life, to express in our movements, our actions and reactions the divine Truth, when we are governed by that Truth instead of being governed by the general ignorance, we are apprentice-supermen, and according to the success of our efforts, well, we are more or less able apprentices, more or less advanced on the way.” (The Mother)

“A spiritual evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling Spirit, is then the key-note, the central significant motive of the terrestrial existence. This significance is concealed at the outset by the involution of the Spirit, the Divine Reality, in a dense material Inconscience; a veil of Inconscience, a veil of insensibility of Matter hides the universal Consciousness-Force which works within it, so that the Energy, which is the first form the Force of creation assumes in the physical universe, appears to be itself inconscient and yet does the works of a vast occult Intelligence.” (Sri Aurobindo)

“Spiritual rebirth means the constant throwing away of our previous associations and circumstances and proceeding to live as if at each virgin moment we were starting life anew.” (The Mother)

Contents

I. REBIRTH AND EVOLUTION

1. Rebirth
2. The Reincarnating Soul
3. Rebirth, Evolution, Heredity
4. Rebirth and Soul Evolution
5. The Significance of Rebirth
6. The Ascending Unity
7. Involution and Evolution

II. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPIRITUAL MAN

1. The Philosophy of Rebirth
2. The Order of the Worlds
3. Rebirth and Other Worlds – Karma, the Soul and Immortality
4. Man and the Evolution
5. The Evolution of the Spiritual Man

III. YOGA AND EVOLUTION

1. Life and Yoga
2. The Evolutionary Aim in Yoga
3. Evolution and Yoga – One Movement and the Same Journey
4. What is Nature

IV. THE PSYCHIC – ITS NATURE, ROLE AND EVOLUTION

1. The Psychic Being
2. Role, Function and Action of the Psychic
3. Growth and Development of the Psychic

V. THE UNITY OF GOD, MAN AND NATURE

1. The Involved and Evolving Godhead
2. The Evolution of Consciousness
3. The Progress to Knowledge – God, Man and Nature
4. The Evolutionary Process – Ascent and Integration