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of things and power of harmonisation which can overcome re-
sistance by other means than dramatic struggle and violence.
There are three powers of the cosmos to which all things are
subject — creation, preservation and destruction; whatever is
created lasts for a time, then begins to crumble down. The tak-
ing away of the power of destruction implies a creation that will
not be destroyed but last and develop always. In the Ignorance
destruction is necessary for progress — in the Knowledge, the
Truth-creation, the law is that of a constant unfolding without
any Pralaya.
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It is not by a general descent that people come out of the
physical mind. If one chooses to remain in the physical mind,
one million descents can come down and make no difference
to him. The Supermind coming down on earth will change noth-
ing in a man if he clings to the ego.
CWSA 28: 292-93

A spiritualised society
A spiritualised society would live like its spiritual individuals,
not in the ego, but in the spirit, not as the collective ego, but
as the collective soul. This freedom from the egoistic standpoint
would be its first and most prominent characteristic. But the elimi-
nation of egoism would not be brought about, as it is now pro-
posed to bring it about, by persuading or forcing the individual to
immolate his personal will and aspirations and his precious and
hard-won individuality to the collective will, aims and egoism of
the society, driving him like a victim of ancient sacrifice to slay his
soul on the altar of that huge and shapeless idol. For that would be
only the sacrifice of the smaller to the larger egoism, larger only in
bulk, not necessarily greater in quality or wider or nobler, since a
collective egoism, result of the united egoisms of all, is as little a

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