Mind, even free and in its own unmixed and unhampered element, is not the highest possibility of consciousness for mind is not in possession of Truth, but only a minor vessel or an instrument and here an ignorant seeker plucking eagerly at a mass of falsehoods and half-truths for the unsatisfying pabulum of its hunger. His physical frame will be a firm support and adequate radiant instrument for the spirit’s divine play and work in Matter. The superman will be a supramental spirit which will envelop and freely use a conscious body, plastic to spiritual forces. Man is a mind imprisoned, obscured and circumscribed in a precarious and imperfect living but imperfectly conscious body. The difference between man and superman will be the difference between mind and a consciousness as far beyond it as thinking mind is beyond the consciousness of plant and animal the differentiating essence of man is mind, the differentiating essence of superman will be supermind of a divine gnosis. The appearance of the superman in the human world will be the fulfillment of that distant shining promise. The appearance of a human possibility in a material and animal world was the first glint of a coming divine Light, - the first far-off intimation of a godhead to be born out of Matter. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence - inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature’s process. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth’s evolution. Man is a transitional being, he is not final for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. ![]() He is a middle term of the evolution, not its end, crown or consummating masterpiece. Man is a transitional being, he is not final. UNDERWORLD: FLOODED KINGDOMS OF THE ICE AGE.
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