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Sri Aurobindo : We mean by the European materialism the at-
titude that takes matter as the fundamental basis of evolution
and the impossibility of accepting what it is not accustomed to.
I am not running down the European mind. It is fine in its own
way, but we are trying to effect a decisive change in the physi-
cal being. The opposite mistake is also made by those Europeans,
who have left the materialistic formula binding down the mind to
the acceptance of the laws of the physical being as final, the mis-
take of accepting the vital powers as the true gods. For example,
the people who do psychic research, mediumistic experiments, au-
tomatic writing, spirit communication etc. are the people.
Evening Talk with Sri Aurobindo, p. 330, 329, 334

November 6, 1926:
Sri Aurobindo: I spoke about the world of the Gods because not
to speak of it would be dangerous. I spoke of it so that the mind
may understand the thing if it comes down. I am trying to bring
it down into the physical as it can no longer be delayed and then
things may happen. Formerly, to speak of it would have been un-
desirable but now not to speak might be dangerous.

November 9, 1926:
Disciple : Do you promise that the world of the descend ?

Sri Aurobindo : I don't promise anything. "If the Supramental
comes down" that is what I say.

Disciple : Can it be obstructed by us ?

Sri Aurobindo : No, yet you can help it.
Evening Talk with Sri Aurobindo, p. 295-96

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