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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Perfection of all kinds is indeed good, as it is the sign of the pressure of the consciousness in the material world towards full self-expression in this or that limit, on this or that level. In a certain sense it is an urge of the Divine itself hidden in forms that tends in the lesser degrees of consciousness towards its own increasing self-revelation. Perfection of an object or a scene in inanimate Nature, animate perfection of strength, speed, physical beauty, courage or animal fidelity, affection, intelligence, perfection of art, music, poetry, literature,—perfection of the intellect in any kind of mental activity, the perfect statesman, warrior, artist, craftsman,—perfection in vital force and capacity, perfection in ethical qualities, character, temperament,—all have their high value, their place as rungs in the ladder of evolution, the seried steps of the spirit's emergence. If one likes to call that spiritual because of this hidden urge behind it one can do so; it can at least be regarded as a preparation for the secret spirit's emergence. But thought and knowledge can only proceed by making the necessary distinctions. Much confusion is created by neglecting them. This mental idealism, ethical development, religious piety and fervour, occult </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">powers and feats have all been taken as spirituality and the spiritual evolution kept tied to the moorings of the planes of lesser consciousness which do indeed prepare the soul by experience for the spiritual consciousness but are not themselves that. For perfection can only become truly spiritual when it is founded on the awakened spiritual consciousness and takes on its peculiar essence. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/idealism-and-spirituality#p1</u></ref></span>
<div style="color:#000000;">"The supramental world has to be formed or created in us by the Divine Will as the result of a constant expansion and self-perfecting."</div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother 27 June 1956)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/27-june-1956#p31</u></ref></span>
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