From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



in the creations of genius as in lucidity, the same 

 independence of contingencies, the same divine 

 reflection. 



In the sum total of the phenomena of life, of con- 

 sciousness, and of the evolution of the individual, 

 either one apprehends nothing or one apprehends all. 

 We apprehend nothing when we seek to refer the whole 

 being to one of its principles, more especially to the 

 crudest the material body; we apprehend everything 

 when we consider the divine and permanent Self in 

 its passing and diverse objectifications. 



In fine, there is no supernormal, as there are no 

 miracles ! The supernormal is but the unusual manifesta- 

 tion of the Self, released by decentralisation, revealing 

 itself by all its powers, even those that are highest and 

 most latent; in contrast with normal psychic life which 

 only allows of narrow manifestations, strictly confined 

 within bounds of material ' representation.' 



Emergence of the ' supernormal ' merely proves that 

 there are in the Self higher powers which are unused 

 and unusable during terrestrial objectification; powers 

 of action from mind to mind (mento-mental), extra- 

 sensorial powers of divination and clairvoyance, and 

 finally powers of dominating matter. 



We may admit, with Myers, that these higher 

 faculties which escape our will during earth-life, and 

 are accessible in a relative and fragmentary manner in 

 proportion to the abnormal decentralisation of organic 

 limitations, are more completely accessible to us after 

 the final rupture of those limitations by death. Especially 

 does it seem reasonable that these faculties now in process 

 of development should, some day, be fully available to 

 the Self. Their regular and normal use will denote the 

 superior and ideally evolved life in which consciousness 

 will have won its final triumph over the original uncon- 

 sciousness. Then there will be no ' limitation ' of the 

 Self by the individual grouping which it directs. The 



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