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conscious of their psychic being, are united with it,
participate in its life; these, indeed, progress till the last
breath of their life. And they do not stop even after death,
when they have left their body under the plea that the body
cannot last any longer: they continue to progress.
CWM 5: 204-05 The Mother

The centre of organisation and transformation is always

the presence of the psychic in the body. Therefore, it is a
very big mistake to believe that the progress continues or

even, as some believe, that it is more complete and rapid
in the periods of transition between two physical lives; in

general, there is no progress at all, for the psychic enters
into a state of rest and the other parts, after a more or

less ephemeral life in their own domain, are dissolved.
Earthly life is the place for progress. It is here, on

earth, that progress is possible, during the period of
earthly existence. And it is the psychic which carries the

progress over from one life to another, by organising its
own evolution and development itself.

CWM 9: 269-70 The Mother

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