Preparing for the Miraculous

2012 and 1956: Doomsday? 115terribly heavy and which presses on Matter. And the apparentresult is as if catastrophes were inevitable. Andtogether with this impression of inevitable catastrophesthere are solutions to the situation, events which seem tobe utterly miraculous. ... It is no longer like it was: this reallyis a new world ... It is the descent of the supramentalworld, which is not something purely imaginary: it is anabsolutely material Power but which has no need of materialmeans. A world which wants to incarnate into the[existing material] world.” 25“Mankind has a habit of surviving the worst catastrophescreated by its own errors or by the violent turns ofNature and it must be so if there is any meaning in its existence,if its long history and continuous survival is not theaccident of a fortuitously self-organizing Chance, which itmust be in a purely materialistic view of the nature of theworld.” Thus wrote Sri Aurobindo in 1949, in a postscriptchapter to his Ideal of Human Unity.The Iron Age is ended. Only nowThe last fierce spasm of the dying pastShall shake the nations, and when that has passed,Earth washed of ills shall raise a fairer brow.It comes at last, the day foreseen of old,What John in Patmos saw, what Shelley dreamed,Vision and vain imagination deemed,The City of Delight, the Age of Gold. 2625 L’Agenda de Mère, vol. 3, p. 484.26 Sri Aurobindo: Collected Poems, p. 244.