Preparing for the Miraculous

14 eleven talkscaricature by their modern rediscoverers our commentators.The dominant positivist spirit has no understanding for suchwisdom and condemns it with supercilious disdain.For those acquainted with Sri Aurobindo and theMother’s view of things it will have become clear that thedivine Being witnessed by the Gnostics, the Kabbalists, andeven in several of the most ancient mysteries, must eitherbe what Sri Aurobindo called the Supermind or somethingclosely related it. Every kind of consciousness is a being,every being is a kind of consciousness. Which is why Sri Aurobindostated in The Life Divine that “Supermind is Superman.”The Supermind is the intermediary Power betweenSachchidananda, i.e. the ultimate attributes of the Godheadas conceivable by the human intellect and spiritual experience,and the mental ranges at the disposal of the humanbeing. It is “the beginning and end of all creation and arrangement,the Alpha and the Omega, the starting point ofall differentiation, the instrument of all unification ... It hasthe knowledge of the One, but is able to draw out of theOne its hidden multitudes; it manifests the Many, but doesnot lose itself in their differentiations ...” 6 The supramentalspecies to succeed the human species in the terrestrialevolution is of the essence of the divine Consciousness andBeing here called “Supermind”, and will, in the infinity oftime to follow, be as varied and glorious as are the potentialitiesof the Supermind.So much aware was Sri Aurobindo of the gnostic traditionand its values that, when writing the Arya, he usedthe term “gnosis” time and again as equivalent to the term“Supermind.” He noted for instance: “This full power ofthe consciousness is supermind or gnosis – supermind becauseto reach it we have to pass beyond and turn upon6 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 134.