From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



of directions, thus producing a multiplicity of new 

 experiences ; whilst knowledge of its real state and full 

 remembrance of the past would, in the present phase 

 of evolution, be a restraint and an impediment to the 

 thinking being, as likewise the regular use of the higher 

 subconscious capacities would limit effort. 



But this limitation and this ignorance must be 

 passing: all past phases of evolution remain deeply 

 imprinted on the parts as on the whole. 



The interpenetration of the subconscious and the 

 conscious, which is becoming more and more marked, will 

 necessarily bring about a perfect fusion between them 

 in higher evolutionary phases. The complete memory 

 of the evolutionary past, the free disposal of original 

 and acquired capacities, an extended knowledge of the 

 universe, and the solution to the highest metaphysical 

 problems, will all become regular and normal. 



The unconscious will then have become the 

 conscious. 



If we would take a comprehensive view of evolution 

 such as it is presented by the new notions, we shall see 

 organic realisation proceeding according to the classical 

 simile, as an immense tree of life, not as Bergson would 

 have it, as a sheaf of diverging rockets. 



Its principal and secondary branches represent the 

 diverse groups of plant and animal life, all derived from 

 the trunk common to all. 



The realisation of consciousness is effected from 

 complete unconsciousness to complete consciousness 

 by a series of broken lines, which, starting from the base 

 converge to a common summit. 



These broken lines represent the perpetual passing 

 and repassing from life to death and from death to 

 life of * the essential ' in the psychological elements 

 individualised in the Self. The theory of palingenesis 

 enables us to understand the return, by death, of the 

 individualised monad to the central energy, and its 



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