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The Great Wars

        The  War Zone

            The entire nervous plane seems to have swept down upon
        earth; but in its form of power, of force, it is localised in the area
        of combat.
            Elsewhere, behind the lines or in the neutral countries, this
        plane has embodied itself mainly in its form of weakness, nervous
        tension,  feverishness,  impatience,  unruly  imagination,  frittering
        away all energies for action. All those who are not fighting feel
        bereft of the tremendous power which is driving — sometimes to
        the point of literally maddening them — those who are fighting
        and killing each other.
            All those who go into the  war  zone — a clearly defined zone
        from the point of view of the active influences and atmosphere —
        are seized, carried away, impersonalised in a formidable current,
        as impetuous as a raging ocean. They are disindividualised, as it
        were, reduced to an elemental state, to the state of natural forces
        which, like the wind, the storm or the waters, accomplish their
        earthly work, moved by a Will of which they are unconscious. They
        are no longer men but masses that move and act; and even the
        innumerable instances which seem to spring from courage, from
        individual heroism, are yet akin to the heroism of bees or ants —
        almost  mechanical  gestures,  instinctive  gestures  induced  in  an
        isolated element by the collective consciousness of the genius of
        the race.
        CWM 2: 142-43                                                   The Mother








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