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The ways of Grace
But what does one call an all-powerful Grace? I don't want
to speak of the conceptions of an ordinary mind for which the
all-powerful Grace is that which would instantaneously realise
what it wants or believes to be the right thing; I am not speak-
ing of that, we may eliminate this case, which is childish. But
granting that somebody has a deeper, higher vision, a sort of
inner perception of an ideal world where all the things which for
us are very shocking would disappear; then one is truly faced
with a problem which seems insoluble.
This translates itself in very ordinary minds into an over sim-
ple and very childish form: either the divine Will is something
unthinkable for us — which would not be surprising! — unthink-
able and almost monstrous if It allows things to be as they are,
if It wants things as they are, or else... the Grace is powerless.
That— I warn you to put you on your guard against the
trap―that is the great argument of the Adversary. He uses it to
cloud the mind and raise up revolt; but still, it is well thought
out as a trap.
Then come those who say, "It is because you are in the Ig-
norance that you see like that; change your consciousness, en-
ter into contact with the divine Consciousness and you will see
differently." This is perfectly correct. I was just telling you, and I
repeat, that if you can manage to get out of the Ignorance and
enter ever so little into union with the divine Reality, you live
an ecstatic life in which everything is marvellous, sublime, and
where the Grace manifests in all things.
CWM 8: 268

The aim of sadhana here
The usual sadhanas have for aim the union with the Su-
preme Consciousness (Sat-chit-ananda). And those who reach

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