Do you know what the flower which we have
called "Successful Future" signifies when given to you? It signifies the
hope - nay, even the promise - that you will participate in the descent of
the supramental world. For that descent will be the successful consummation
of our work, a descent of which the full glory has not yet been or else the
whole face of life would have been different. By slow degrees the
Supramental is exerting its influence, now one part of the being and now
another feels the embrace or the touch of its divinity; but when it comes
down in all its self-existent power, a supreme radical change will seize the
whole nature. We are moving nearer and nearer the hour of its complete
triumph. Once the world-conditions are ready the full descent will take
place carrying everything before it. Its presence will be unmistakable, its
force will brook no resistance, doubts and difficulties will not torture you
any longer. For the Divine will stand manifest - unveiled in its total
perfection. I do not, however, mean to say that the whole world will at once
feel its presence or be transformed, but I do mean that a part of humanity
will know and participate in its descent - say, this little world of ours
here. From there the transfiguring grace will most effectively radiate. And,
fortunately for the aspirants, that successful future will materialise for
them in spite of all the obstacles set in its way by unregenerate human
nature!
