Preparing for the Miraculous

preparing for the miraculous 45questions with many more constantly changing “scientific”answers, some of them requiring minor miracles which sciencepromises to explain later. How will the body and themind of still half animal Homo sapiens be changed into thefeatures of the gods? The only way seems to be a series ofmajor miracles. But are the realizations of the soul and ofthe spirit, preconditions of the transformation, not alreadyin themselves miracles?When examining in The Human Cycle the communal lifeof the future supramental beings, “a spiritualized society... the kingdom of God upon earth,” Sri Aurobindo wrote:“Certainly, this will not come about easily, or, as men havealways vainly hoped ... by a sudden and at once entirelysatisfying change and magical transformation. The advance,however it comes about, will be indeed of the natureof a miracle, as are all such profound changes and immensedevelopments, for they have the appearance of a kind ofrealized impossibility. But God works all his miracles by anevolution of secret possibilities which have been long prepared... at least in their elements, and in the end by a rapidbringing of all to a head, a throwing together of the elementsso that in their fusion they produce a new form andname of things and reveal a new spirit. Often the decisiveturn is preceded by an apparent emphasizing and raisingto their extreme of things which seem the very denial, themost uncompromising opposite of the new principle andthe new creation.” 2The biological sciences are actively propagating theirpositivist teaching that evolution is nothing but the workof chance in an accidental universe, and that it is not progressive.Consequently the appearance of the human beingis purely a matter of luck. Stephen Jay Gould, for instance,“was adamantly opposed to progress, speaking of it as ‘a2 Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 183.