“One does not progress outside terrestrial life. The earthly, material life is essentially the life of progress, it is here that one makes progress,”—says the Mother. And the beauty is, those who want to escape it, even they will be “compelled to progress whether they want it or not. The psychic being itself progresses in them and they are not conscious of it. But they themselves are compelled to progress. That is to say, they follow a curve. They follow an ascent in life. It is the same progress as that of the growing child…” And then: “…even the Divine, when incarnate on earth, is subject to the same law of progress. His instrument of manifestation, the physical being he has assumed, should be in a constant state of progress, and the law of his personal self-expression is in a way linked to the general law of earthly progress. Thus, even the embodied god cannot be perfect on earth until men are ready to understand and accept perfection.” This is great. Significantly, the Mother stresses: “…even the Divine, when incarnate on earth...”

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