-2-

the fact that it does exist. But existence presupposes life
and many of the scientific facts that started with life in them
have been consumed their own energy and become merely automatic, and it
is the business of every soul who has belief in regeneration to
crowd these dead and encumbering forms out of the way and to
clear a space for that which is already abroad on the earth, new
life - new life - truth forcing its way into new forms backed by
every mind that has faith. Facts that are proved by the evidence
of the five senses, yes, of course! But these do not fill the
vessel. These are not enough, for what has been said to us with the
ignorant because we do not know enough about these facts to dis-
cuss them fully and do not content ourselves with pausing until
we do. We claim that the "known", the "proven" is already ours
through the racial intuition and memory and our ambition is to
extend the racial memory rather than to draw upon it as every
normal average mind does for its (parasitical!) nourishment.

Thus we enter the lists of the abnormal! However,
"away from the normal" signifies two aspects - the subnormal and
the supernormal. The subnormal is negligible and dies out by
itself. The supernormal, on the contrary, sustains, not only
itself but it carries the whole community upon its back. It is
the supernormal in every social group that is the leaven which

-3-

makes it possible for that group to rise. It is in the super-normal that there is an arising forward movement, which is not found in the normal that finds the path - that breaks the road upon which the "average" follows after. It is following the beaten path that constitutes the "average." Had the supernormal with its "excess" of vitality not had the creative impulse to cut the path - the "average" would continue to wallow in anti-diluvian mud.¹ It has always been the supernormal which has forged a scientific and civilized process of existence out of chaos - and it has always been the "average" which has continued in it when it has become outgrown, lifeless and insufficient for progress and has turned into an automatic convention, - a dead formula. - See page 31/2

Of course, you reply with your safe and sane talk of equilibrium - and equilibrium is an achievement, but to tip the scales on the right side deserves recognition even from you, whose ideal is a perfect balance between inertia and energy.

The outline around many of the old forms has to be admitted as too hard and too narrow. Its inelasticity constitutes its defeat. Recognized definitions no longer enclose the whole truth, and the first qualification of a definition is that there shall be nothing left over. There is so much left over, in many

-4-

cases that the important elements are now mostly on the out-
side, and that is our area - the outside - that is where we have
our being, - it is our element and our native air, and the name
that we give to it is the universal consciousness.

The need of every growing thing is for room for ex-
pansion, for self-expression. Have the limits of the academic
in art proved wide enough for this process? "The great master
is he who expresses himself perfectly within limits," you reply.
Yes, but who shall fix the boundary? And in the technique of life,
which is convention, who shall decide the ultimate boundary?
In the institutions of today, is there room for unfolding? Does
marriage foster the inherent nobility of the human animal? Does
our prison system correct the mistakes of ignorance and give
direction to rudderless souls? If not, then our institutions
are crystals thrown off by civilization into the waste heap of
the world, ready for the cosmic melting pot. These are questions
that have somehow to be answered and because every question pre-
supposes an answer, we know that we will find them - out in
that open space where we are groping and where all the truth
that we have already seized upon has been found, and given to
you others for your comfort and security. In order that you