All this makes itself apparent to us in the presumed existence, in the depths of every pre-human living being, of a double psychic polarization—a polarization simultaneously towards what lies ahead and towards the other: towards what lies ahead, in the form of a drive in the direction of what appears to be a greater organic complexity, which itself entails a greater degree of consciousness; and towards the other, in the form of a ‘sympathetic’ cohesion with the other members of the same phylum.
Now that modern man has been sharply brought back to a sense of reality by the sudden pressure around him of the forces of totalization, he must reject as an illusion the idea that he can reach the peak of his own fundamental being in isolation, egoistically, ‘individualistically.’ No: there is no end waiting for each one of us, within a universe undergoing the involution that engenders spirit, other than the end of mankind itself. There is no way out, therefore, open to our individual drive towards survival and super-life, other than resolutely to plunge back into the general current from which we thought, for a moment, we could escape.
In our more informed view man is no longer simply the artisan but also the object of an auto-evolution, which is seen to coincide, at its term, with a concerted reflection of all the elementary human reflections, now mutually inter-reflective.