89: The superman shall wake in mortal man

A Spiritual Biography of Savitri

 

The superman shall wake in mortal man

And manifest the hidden demi-god

Or grow into the God-Light and God-Force

Revealing the secret deity in the cave.

 

Then shall the earth be touched by the Supreme,

His bright unveiled Transcendence shall illumine

The mind and heart, and force the life and act

To interpret his inexpressible mystery

In a heavenly alphabet of Divinity's signs.

 

His living cosmic spirit shall enring,

Annulling the decree of death and pain,

Erasing the formulas of the Ignorance,

With the deep meaning of beauty and life's hid sense,

The being ready for immortality,

His regard crossing infinity's mystic waves

Bring back to Nature her early joy to live,

The metred heart-beats of a lost delight,

The cry of a forgotten ecstasy,

The dance of the first world-creating Bliss.

 

The Immanent shall be the witness God

Watching on his many-petalled lotus-throne,

His actionless being and his silent might

Ruling earth-nature by Eternity's law,

A thinker waking the Inconscient's world,

An immobile centre of many infinitudes

In his thousand-pillared temple by Time's sea.

 

Then shall the embodied being live as one

Who is a thought, a will of the Divine,

A mask or robe of his divinity,

An instrument and partner of his Force,

A point or line drawn in the infinite,

A manifest of the Imperishable.

 

The supermind shall be his nature's fount,

The Eternal's truth shall mould his thoughts and acts,

The Eternal's truth shall be his light and guide.

 

All then shall change, a magic order come

Overtopping this mechanical universe.

 

A mightier race shall inhabit the mortal's world.

 

On Nature's luminous tops, on the Spirit's ground,

The superman shall reign as king of life,

Make earth almost the mate and peer of heaven

And lead towards God and truth man's ignorant earth

And lift towards godhead his mortality.

 

A power released from circumscribing bounds,

Its height pushed up beyond death's hungry reach,

Life's tops shall flame with the Immortal's thoughts,

Light shall invade the darkness of its base.

 

Then in the process of evolving Time

All shall be drawn into a single plan,

A divine harmony shall be earth's law,

Beauty and Joy remould her way to live:

Even the body shall remember God,

Nature shall draw back from mortality

And Spirit's fires shall guide the earth's blind force;

Knowledge shall bring into the aspirant Thought

A high proximity to Truth and God.

 

The supermind shall claim the world for Light

And thrill with love of God the enamoured heart

And place Light's crown on Nature's lifted head

And found Light's reign on her unshaking base…

 

All earth shall be the Spirit's manifest home,

Hidden no more by the body and the life,

Hidden no more by the mind's ignorance;

An unerring Hand shall shape event and act.

 

The Spirit's eyes shall look through Nature's eyes,

The Spirit's force shall occupy Nature's force.

This world shall be God's visible garden-house,

The earth shall be a field and camp of God,

Man shall forget consent to mortality

And his embodied frail impermanence.

 

This universe shall unseal its occult sense,

Creation's process change its antique front,

An ignorant evolution's hierarchy

Release the Wisdom chained below its base.

 

The Spirit shall be the master of his world

Lurking no more in form's obscurity

And Nature shall reverse her action's rule,

The outward world disclose the Truth it veils;

All things shall manifest the covert God,

All shall reveal the Spirit's light and might

And move to its destiny of felicity.

 

Even should a hostile force cling to its reign

And claim its right's perpetual sovereignty

And man refuse his high spiritual fate,

Yet shall the secret Truth in things prevail.

 

For in the march of all-fulfilling Time

The hour must come of the Transcendent's will:

All turns and winds towards his predestined ends

In Nature's fixed inevitable course

Decreed since the beginning of the worlds

In the deep essence of created things:

Even there shall come as a high crown of all

The end of Death, the death of Ignorance.

 

But first high Truth must set her feet on earth

And man aspire to the Eternal's light

And all his members feel the Spirit's touch

And all his life obey an inner Force.

 

This too shall be; for a new life shall come,

A body of the Superconscient's truth,

A native field of Supernature's mights:

It shall make earth's nescient ground Truth's colony,

Make even the Ignorance a transparent robe

Through which shall shine the brilliant limbs of Truth

And Truth shall be a sun on Nature's head

And Truth shall be the guide of Nature's steps

And Truth shall gaze out of her nether deeps.

 

When superman is born as Nature's king

His presence shall transfigure Matter's world:

He shall light up Truth's fire in Nature's night,

He shall lay upon the earth Truth's greater law;

Man too shall turn towards the Spirit's call.

 

Awake to his hidden possibility,

Awake to all that slept within his heart

And all that Nature meant when earth was formed

And the Spirit made this ignorant world his home,

He shall aspire to Truth and God and Bliss…

 

The truth above shall wake a nether truth;

Even the dumb earth become a sentient force…

 

The Spirit shall look out through Matter's gaze

And Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face.

 

Then man and superman shall be at one

And all the earth become a single life…

 

Even the many shall some answer make

And bear the splendour of the Divine's rush

And his impetuous knock at unseen doors.

 

A heavenlier passion shall upheave men's lives…

Intuitive beams shall touch the nature's peaks,

A revelation stir the nature's depths:

The Truth shall be the leader of their lives,

Truth shall dictate their thought and speech and act,

They shall feel themselves lifted nearer to the sky,

As if a little lower than the gods…

 

The frontiers of the Ignorance shall recede,

More and more souls shall enter into light,

Minds lit, inspired, the occult summoner hear

And lives blaze with a sudden inner flame

And hearts grow enamoured of divine delight

And human wills tune to the divine will,

These separate selves the Spirit's oneness feel,

These senses of heavenly sense grow capable,

The flesh and nerves of a strange ethereal joy

And mortal bodies of immortality.

 

A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell

And take the charge of breath and speech and act

And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns

And every feeling a celestial thrill.

 

Often a lustrous inner dawn shall come

Lighting the chambers of the slumbering mind;

A sudden bliss shall run through every limb

And Nature with a mightier Presence fill.

 

Thus shall the earth open to divinity

And common natures feel the wide uplift,

Illumine common acts with the Spirit's ray

And meet the deity in common things.

 

Nature shall live to manifest secret God,

The Spirit shall take up the human play,

This earthly life become the life divine.

 

 

Savitri, pp. 705-11