INTERMEDIATE ZONE THE SELF-ASSERTIONS
The result of this state of mind is that one begins to affirm everything that comes in this mixed and dubious region as if it
were all the Truth and the sheer Divine Will; the ideas or the suggestions that constantly repeat themselves are
expressed with a self-assertive justified by the affirmation that one is thinking and acting as an instrument and
under the inspiration of the Divine. Ideas are put forward very aggressively that can be valid to the mind, but
are not spiritually valid; yet they are stated as if they were spiritual absolutes. For instance, equality, which
in that sense — for yogic Samata is a quite different thing — is a mere mental principle, the claim to a sacred
independence, the refusal to accept anyone as Guru or the opposition made between the Divine and the human Divine
etc., etc. All these ideas are positions that can be taken by the mind and the vital and turned into principles
which they try to enforce on the religious or even the spiritual life, but they are not and cannot be spiritual
in their nature.
Agents, not masters, they serve Life's desires
Toiling for ever in the snare of Time.
Their bodies born out of some Nihil's womb
Ensnare the spirit in the moment's dreams,
Then perish vomiting the immortal soul
Out of Matter's belly into the sink of Nought.