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the deeper knowledge want to go too fast: she likes her mean-
derings, she likes her successive attempts, her failures, her fresh
beginnings, her new inventions; she likes the fantasy of the path,
the unexpectedness of the experience; one could almost say that
for her the longer it takes, the more enjoyable it is.
But even of the best games one tires. There comes a time
when one needs to change them and one could dream of a game
in which it would no longer be necessary to destroy in order to
progress, where the zeal for progress would be enough to find
new means, new expressions, where the élan would be ardent
enough to overcome inertia, lassitude, lack of understanding, fa-
tigue, indifference.
Why does this body, as soon as some progress has been made,
feel the need to sit down? It is tired. It says, “Oh! you must wait.
I must be given time to rest.” This is what leads it to death. If
it felt within itself that ardour to do always better, become more
transparent, more beautiful, more luminous, eternally young, one
could escape from this macabre joke of Nature.
For her this is of no importance. She sees the whole, she sees
the totality; she sees that nothing is lost, that it is only recom-
bining quantities, numberless minute elements, without any im-
portance, which are put back into a pot and mixed well — and
something new comes out of it. But that game is not amusing
for everybody. And if in one’s consciousness one could be as vast
as she, more powerful than she, why shouldn’t one do the same
thing in a better way?
This is the problem which confronts us now. With the addi-
tion, the new help of this Force which has descended, which is
manifesting, working, why shouldn’t one take in hand this tre-
mendous game and make it more beautiful, more harmonious,
more true?
It only needs brains powerful enough to receive this Force and
formulate the possible course of action. There must be conscious

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