From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



restoration by life to the place which it fits according 

 to its rising degrees of conscious realisation. 



The infinite series of broken lines thus rises directly 

 and logically from the primitive unconsciousness to 

 consciousness. 



The human form represents to-day the top of the 

 evolutionary scale. How will future realisations of 

 consciousness appear ? 



Will they be correlative to a new complexity in the 

 present physical organisation ? Or will they necessitate 

 new and more perfect forms ? 



Will the ' superman * retain the present human form ? 



To such questions it is impossible to reply. There 

 are as many arguments to be found for as against any 

 answer that can be given. 



The fact that we cannot discover any outline of a 

 future organisation, carries no weight if the theory of 

 mutations is true. There may be in our subconscious- 

 ness or in the subconsciousness of the universe, some 

 latent preparation, some slow elaboration of a new form 

 which will appear suddenly when the favourable con- 

 ditions obtain. 



This new form would be in conformity with all our 

 conscious aspirations carried back into the subconscious. 

 It would appear with an organism less gross, less subject 

 to material needs, more free in time and space and 

 reflecting at last our ideals of intelligence, balance, 

 youth, strength, and health, our hopes of liberty, 

 beauty, and love. 



This form of life and consciousness would dominate 

 matter instead of being as it is now, in servitude to it. 



But is a more subtle organisation than the human body 

 compatible with the needs of the terrestrial environment ? 



Will it be realised only in other worlds ? Is it 

 already realised elsewhere ? 



These are insoluble problems, and more tempting to 

 poetical than to philosophic minds. 



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