The old spirituality was an escape from life towards the divine Reality, leaving the world where it was, as it was. Our new vision, on the contrary , is the divinisation of life, the transformation of the material into a divine world....

This work could have been a simple continuation, an amelioration, an enlargement of the old world as it was But what has happened is truly a new thing, a new world has been born. It is not the old that is being transformed, it is quite a new world that has been really concretely born.

   At the present hour we are in the very heart of a period of transition, where the two are intertwined: the old persists, still all powerful, and continues to dominate the ordinary consciousness, while the new glides in, still very modest, unnoticed to the extent that for the moment it disturbs nothing much externally. ...

   In any case, to simplify one can say that the old world, the creation of what Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind, was in a characteristic way the age of the gods and therefore the age of religions. ...In the supramental creation there will no more be religions. All life will be the expression, the flowering in forms of the Divine Unity manifesting in the world. And there will be no more what men now call the gods.

  These great divine beings themselves will be able to participate in the new creation, but for that they must put on what we may call the supramental substance on earth. And if there are some who choose to remain in their world, as they are, if they decide not to manifest themselves physically, their relation with the other beings of the supramental world on earth will be a relation of friends, of collaborators, of equal to equal, because the highest divine essence will have manifested in the beings of the new supramental world on earth.

  When the physical substance will be supramentalised, to be born on earth in a body will not be a cause of inferiority; rather the contrary , there will be gained a plenitude which could not be obtained otherwise. ...

  I invite you to the great adventure, and in this adventure you are not to repeat spiritually what others have done before us, because our adventure begins from beyond that stage. We are for a new creation, entirely new, carrying in it all the unforeseen, all risks, all hazards,-a true adventure of which the goal is sure victory, but of which the way is unknown and has to be traced out step by step in the unexplored.
                               

THE MOTHER, Questions and Answers, Bulletin, Nov. 1957