From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



As the reversion from the conscious to. the uncon- 

 scious illuminates the latter more and more, there will 

 necessarily come a time when nothing will be mysterious 

 or obscure. 



At what we will call the summit of evolution, as far 

 as it is possible to conceive of this, the apparent separa- 

 tion and the temporary scission between the conscious 

 and the subconscious will no longer exist. All the 

 capacities and all the knowledge that go to make up 

 the living being, all its vast past, will henceforward be 

 integrally, directly, regularly, and normally accessible. 

 Similarly the supernormal powers will be under the 

 control of the conscious will. 



The subconscious being will have disappeared and 

 only the conscious being will remain. Then, but only 

 then, the essential dynamo-psychism will deserve the 

 name of Will. 



If we did not fear to lose our way in the metaphysical 

 realm, we might permit ourselves another inference, but 

 one which we can merely indicate with caution and with 

 large reservations. 



This infinitely vast expansion of consciousness 

 should necessarily result in the disruption of those 

 factitious and transitory groupings which make individu- 

 alisation. 



The monads would then return to the original 

 unity from whence they were derived. 



But this unity, this synthesis of all consciousness, 

 will absorb them all into itself, while leaving each 

 indelible and eternal. 



Arrived at its summum, each individual consciousness 

 will be expanded to total consciousness; it will have 

 become the total Consciousness Itself. 



The * summit ' of evolution may then be imaged as 

 a kind of ' conscious nirvana.' 



