Chapter 16The Higher Planes of Mind · The Higher Planes and Higher Consciousness

partly supramental character. Highest in the overmind ranges is the supramental Overmind or Overmind gnosis. But these are things you cannot understand until you get a higher experience.

* It [the overmind] can for convenience be divided into four planes — mental overmind and the three you have written [intuitive overmind, true overmind and supramental overmind] — but there are many layers in each and each of these can be regarded as a plane in itself.

* There are many stages in the transition from mental overmind to supramentalised overmind and then from that to supramental overmind and from that to supermind. Do not be in a hurry to say, “This is the last highest overmind.”

* What you call supramental overmind1 is still overmind — not a part of the true Supermind. One cannot get into the true Super-mind (except in some kind of trance or Samadhi) unless one has first objectivised the overmind Truth in life, speech, action, external knowledge and not only experienced it in meditation and inner experience.

ous formations and diverse play of forces, building thus different worlds out of this dispersion.

In the Intuition the nature of Knowledge is Truth not global or whole, but coming out in so many points, edges, flashes of a Truth that is behind it and supplies it with its direct perceptions.

* 1 This expression is a misnomer since overmind cannot be supramental: it can at most receive some light and truth from the higher source.