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Evolution is nothing but the progressive unfolding of Spir-
it out of the density of material consciousness and the
gradual self-revelation of God out of this apparent animal
being.
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All evolution is in essence a heightening of the force of con-
sciousness in the manifest being so that it may be raised
into the greater intensity of what is still unmanifest, from
matter into life, from life into mind, from the mind into the
spirit.
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All evolution is the progressive self-revelation of the One
to himself in the terms of the Many out of the Inconscience
through the Ignorance towards self-conscient perfection.
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Evolution in its essence is not the development of a more
and more organised body or a more and more efficient life
— these are only its machinery and outward circumstance.
Evolution is the strife of a Consciousness somnambulised
in Matter to wake and be free and find and possess itself
and all its possibilities to the very utmost and widest, to
the very last and highest. Evolution is the emancipation of
a self-revealing Soul secret in Form and Force, the slow
becoming of a Godhead, the growth of a Spirit.
In this evolution mental man is not the goal and end,
the completing value, the highest last significance; he is
too small and imperfect to be the crown of all this travail
of Nature.

CWSA 12: 334; 22: 754-55 ; 12: 219, 166 Sri Aurobindo

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