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Daivic and Asuric forces
The Mother made it plain in a letter which has been made pub-
lic that we did not consider the war as a fight between nations
or governments (still less between good people and bad people)
but between two forces, the Divine and the Asuric. What we have
to see is on which side men and nations put themselves; if they
put themselves on the right side, they at once make themselves
instruments of the Divine purpose in spite of all defects, errors,
wrong movements and actions (past or present or possible back-
slidings in the future) which are common to human nature and to
all human collectivities. The victory of one side (the Allies) would
keep the path open for the evolutionary forces; the victory of the
other side would drag back humanity, degrade it horribly and
might lead even, at the worst, to its failure as a race, as others
in the past evolution failed and perished. That is the whole ques-
tion and all other considerations are either irrelevant or of a minor
importance. The Allies at least stand for human values, though
they may often have acted against their own best ideals (human
beings always do that); Hitler stands for diabolical values or for
human values exaggerated in the wrong way until they become
diabolical (e.g. the "virtues" of the Herrenvolk, the master race).
That does not make the English or Americans nations of spotless
angels nor the Germans a wicked and sinful race, but as an indica-
tor it has a decisive importance.
CWSA 35: 215-16

The ways of Divine
The Divine takes men as they are and uses them as his instru-
ments even if they are not flawless in character, without stain or
sin or fault, exemplary in virtue, or angelic, holy and pure. If they
are of good will, if, to use the Biblical phrase, they are on the Lord's
side, that is enough for the work to be done. Even if I knew that
the Allies (I am speaking of the "big" nations, America, Britain, Chi-

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