Raghavan N. Iyer

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Sri Raghavan Iyer March 10, 1930 - June 20, 1995

Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer was an Indian academic and philosopher. Born in Madras, India on March 10, 1930, Iyer was the son of Narasimhan Iyer and Lakshmi Iyer. He is remembered for his contributions to Theosophy and as the father of Pico Iyer.

Iyer was educated at the University of Bombay and University of Oxford. At Bombay he received first class honors in Economics and won a variety of commendations and prizes, including the Chancellor's Medal. At the age of 18 he became the youngest lecturer in the University of Bombay, at Elphinstone College. After being awarded his master's degree in Advanced Economics in Bombay, he was sent as the sole Rhodes Scholar for India for 1950 to Magdalen College, Oxford. He secured First Class Honors in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and later received the D. Phil. Degree in moral and political philosophy. While a student at Oxford, he was elected President of the Oxford Union, the Voltaire Society, the Oxford Majlis, the Oxford University Peace Association, the Oxford Social Studies Association, and several other societies.

On returning to India, he served as Director of the Indian Institute of World Culture and as Associate Editor of the Aryan Path. He then served as Chief Research Officer for the Head of the Planning Commission of the Indian Government, and helped to elaborate the theory of democratic planning.

In 1956 he returned to Oxford, where he taught Moral and Political Philosophy for eight years. He was Fellow and Lecturer in Politics at St. Anthony's College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Oslo, Ghana and Chicago. He also lectured at the College of Europe in Belgium, the Erasmus Seminar in the Netherlands, and at Harvard, Bowdoin, Berkeley, UCLA, Rand Corporation, and the California Institute of Technology. He was actively associated with the world federalist movement in Europe, participated in many television and radio programmes of the B.B.C. and lectured at various international conferences in Sweden, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia and Japan.

He settled permanently in Santa Barbara in 1965, where he was a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara until his retirement in 1986. He became a Consultant to the Fund for the Republic, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Academy of World Studies and the Management Development Institute of the State of California. From 1971 to 1982 he was a member of the Club of Rome, and from 1978 to 1988 he was a member of the Reform Club in London. In the spring of 1985 he was Alton Brooks Visiting Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. He was also a member of the American Society for Legal and Political Philosophy, the International Society for Gandhian Studies and the International Society for Neo-Platonic Studies.

1 Theosophy
2 Curriculum Vitae
3 Bibliography
4 Quotations
5 Sources
6 External links

[edit] Theosophy

In Santa Barbara he expanded his Theosophical work that began in India at age ten when he first entered the orbit of the Theosophical Movement. Under his guiding influence, he initiated a number of innovative modes of Theosophical service through the auspices of the United Lodge of Theosophists in Santa Barbara. From 1975 to 1989 he was Editor-in-chief of Concord Grove Press and the golden journal Hermes - the primary vehicle for promulgating the alchemical teachings of the 1975 Cycle with its unconditional devotion to the spiritual regeneration of humanity and its unswerving conviction in the existence of Masters of Wisdom as ideals and facts. He was the Founder-President of the Institute of World Culture from 1976 to 1986, an organization inspired and guided by ten revolutionary principles set forth in its 'Declaration of Interdependence'. Iyer is regarded by some as the world teacher predicted by H. P. Blavatsky to inaugurate a new theosophical impulsion[1] beginning in 1975, just as Blavatsky had in 1875, and every one hundred years before beginning with Tsong-Kha-Pa in the 13th Century CE.

In December 1987 he visited Sri Lanka at the invitation of the Deputy Foreign Minister in Colombo, met President Junius Jayawardene, senior Buddhist monks and community leaders, gave a post-Christmas message on television and spoke on "The Humanity of the Future" at the University of Colombo. In 1988 he visited the Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia, met Dr. Broadus Butler and Bishop Featherstone, and intoned the Gayatri mantram for the sake of all souls. In New Orleans he paid tribute to the memory of Louis Armstrong, the herald of 'the American Century'. In Savannah, Georgia he entered into a deep midnight meditation at the Pulaski monument by the sea, invoking myriad stars in accordance with ancient custom, on behalf of the disinherited billions upon this earth.

After five and one-half decades of service to the Theosophical Movement and to the emerging City of Man, Sri Raghavan Iyer passed away on June 20, 1995 in Santa Barbara, California.

[edit] Curriculum Vitae

Education:

Dr. Antonio Da Silva High School, Bombay, 1934- 1936 St. James College, Calcutta, 1936- 1938 St. Bede’s High School, Madras, 1938- 1940 Dr. Antonio Da Silva High School, Bombay, 1940- 1944 Elphinstone College, Bombay, 1944- 1950 School of Economics & Sociology, University of Bombay, 1948- 1950 Magdalen College, Oxford, 1950- 1953 Nuffield College, Oxford, 1953- 1954 Intermediate Arts, University of Bombay, 1946 (First Class First) B.A. (Economics), University of Bombay, 1948 (First Class First) B.A. (Philosophy, Politics & Economics), University of Oxford, 1954 (First Class Honours) M.A., University of Oxford, 1956 D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1962

Career:

Fellow & Lecturer in Politics, Elphinstone College, Bombay, 1948- 1949 Director, Indian Institute of World Culture, Bangalore, 1954- 1955 Associate Editor, The Aryan Path, Bombay, 1954- 1955 Chief Research Officer to the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India, New Delhi, 1955- 1956 Fellow and Lecturer in Politics, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 1956- 1964 Consultant, Friends International Seminar, Kranj, Yugoslavia, 1958 Consultant, Parliamentary Group for World Government, London, 1957- 1964 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo, Jan- Mar, 1958 Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Chicago, Winter 1963 Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, 1962 Visiting Professor, Erasmus Seminar, Netherlands, 1962 Visiting Professor, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Spring 1964 Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1964- 1965 Consultant, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1964- 1966 Consultant, Fund for the Republic, Santa Barbara, 1964- 1969 Consultant, Management Development Institute, Sacramento, 1969- 1971 Alton Brooks Professor of Religion, University of Southern California, 1985 Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1965- 1986; Professor Emeritus, after July 1986

Clubs, Societies, Professional and Non-Profit Organizations:

Founder-Secretary, The Elphinstone College Student’s Executive, 1946- 1948 Founder-Editor, The Elphinstone College Wall-Paper (daily bulletin), 1946- 1948 Member, National Preparatory Committee, National Union of Students, 1949- 1950 Chief Delegate, World Union of Students, Mysore & Bombay, 1950 President, The Oxford Union, Spring 1954 President, The Oxford Majlis, Spring 1951 President, The Oxford University Peace Association, Michelmas, 1951 President, The Oxford Social Studies Association, 1952 President, The Voltaire Society, Winter 1953 Founder, The Plotinus Society, Winter 1953 Delegate, World Government Conference, Copenhagen, 1954 Director, Seminar on World Religions, Bangalore, 1955 Senior Treasurer, Oxford University Socratic Club, 1959- 1964 Member of Executive Committee, World Association of World Federalists, The Hague, 1957- 1958 Consultant & Lecturer, International Seminar on "Ideological Diversity and World Peace", Friends International Centre, Kranj, Yugoslavia, 1958 Consultant & Lecturer, International Conference on the Establishment of a World University, Switzerland, 1959Lecturer, Conference of World Thinkers on Ideology and Industrial Society, Rheinfelden, Switzerland, 1959 Senior Treasurer, Oxford University Porphyry Society, 1959 Senior Treasurer, Oxford University Buddhist Society, 1958- 1964 Consultant, OXFAM, 1963- 1964 Director of Studies, UNESCO Conference in Oxford on "Mutual Understanding Between the Orient and the Occident", May 1958 Member, Political Studies Association, England, 1958- 1980 Member, Mind Association, England, 1958- 1974 Member, American Society for Legal and Political Philosophy, 1969- 1984 Member, The American Political Science Association, 1975- 1977 Member, The American Academy of Political Science, 1980- 1983 Life Member, The Indian Political Science Association, since 1979 Editorial Consultant, Nigerian Journal of Philosophy, 1981- 1983 Member, Jazz and World Music Society, 1981- 1986 Board of Advisers, The American Biographical Institute, 1982—1983 Member, International Political Studies Association, 1970- 1985 Member, The Club of Rome, 1971- 1982 Member, The American Association for the Club of Rome, 1980- 1982 Member, The World Futures Studies Federation, 1983- 1985 Member, The Reform Club, London, since 1978

Awards:

J.C.P. D’Andrade Senior Debating Trophy, Elphinstone College, 1944- 1948 J.C.P. D’Andrade Junior Debating Trophy, Elphinstone College, 1944- 1946 Lord Brabourne Inter-Collegiate Elocution Trophy, 1947, 1949- 1950 D.N. Sirur Inter-Collegiate Debating Trophy, 1946, 1947 Hughlings Prize for English, University of Bombay, 1946 Wordsworth Scholarship for Politics & Economics, University of Bombay, 1946 Merit Scholar, Elphinstone College, 1945- 1948 Managing Editor, The Elphinstonian, 1947- 1948 The Telang Medal, Elphinstone College, 1946 The Gokhale Prize, Elphinstone College, 1948 Elected Mr. Elphinstonian, 1946- 1949 James Taylor Prize for Economics, University of Bombay, 1948 Seth Jeshingbhai Prize, 1950 Chancellor’s Gold Medal, 1950 Rhodes Scholar, 1950- 1953 Sheppard Exhibition, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1952 Senior Mackinnon Scholar, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1953- 1954 Ford Foundation Grant, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 1960 Humanities Institute Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1967 Professor of the Year, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1983 Gold Medallion, Accademia Italia, 1984

[edit] Bibliography

Contemporary Authors, 1974, 1981, 1986 Who’s Who in the West, 1974 Dictionary of International Biography, 1979- 1984 Personaggi Contemporanei, 1984 Who’s Who in California, 1987

Books:

  1. Editor: The Glass Curtain Between Asia and Europe. London; Oxford University Press: 1965.
     Le rideau de verre. Paris; La Table Ronde: 1965.
     Der Glaserne Vorhang Zwischen Asien Und Europa. Munich; Georg Verlag: 1968.
  2. The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi. New York; Oxford University Press: 1973.
     Galaxy Paperback, OUP: 1978.
     Second Edition, Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1983.
  3. Parapolitics-Toward the City of Man. New York, Oxford University Press, 1977.
     Second Edition, Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1983.
  4. Utilitarianism and All That: The Political Theory of British Imperialism (St. Antony’s Papers). London; Chatto & Windus: 1960.
     Second Edition, Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1983.
  5. Novus Ordo Seclorum: America and the Global Community. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1983.
  6. Editor, The Jewel in the Lotus. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1983. Third Printing, 1987. Indian Edition: Mysore; Maitreyavana Prakashana: 1988.
  7. The Society of the Future. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1977, 1984, 1988.
  8. General Editor, Sacred Texts. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: from 1983.
  9. General Editor, Theosophical Texts. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: from 1984.
 10. General Editor, Sangam Texts. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: from 1984.
 11. The Bhagavad Gita with the Uttara Gita. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1985. Second Printing, 1987.
 12. The Dhammapada with the Udanavarga. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1986.
 13. Editor, The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. Three volumes. Oxford; Clarendon Press: 1985-1987.
 14. Editor, The Descent of the Gods: The Mystical Writings of G. W. Russell. London; Cohn Smythe: 1988.

Contributions to Books:

  1. G. F. Hudson (ed.), St. Antony’s Papers. London; Chatto and Windus: 1957.
  2. P. Padhye (ed.), Democracy in the New States. New Delhi; Basic Books: 1959.
  3. Raymond Aron (ed.), Ideology and Industrial Society. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press: 1963.
  4. Rose (ed.), The Political Evolution of Southern Asia. London; Macmillan: 1963.
  5. Philip O’Connor (ed), Vagrancy. London; Penguin Books: 1963.
  6. John Nef (ed.), Bridges of Human Understanding. New York; University Publishers: 1964.
  7. Guy Wint (ed.), The Asian Handbook. London; Anthony Blond: 1965.
  8. Civil Disobedience. Santa Barbara; Fund for the Republic: 1965.
  9. Looking Forward: The Abundant Society. Santa Barbara; Fund for the Republic: 1966.
 10. Gandhi-His Relevance for Our Time. San Francisco; World Without War Council: 1970.
 11. Quest for Gandhi. New Delhi; Gandhi Peace Foundation: 1970.
 12. Thomas Greening (ed.). Existential Humanist Psychology. San Francisco; Brooks-Cole: 1971.
 13. The Future is Tomorrow. The Hague; Mouton: 1972.
 14. L’Europe en Pan 2000. Pads; Fayard: 1972.
 15. Wilhelm Oltmans (ed.), Growth II. New York; Putnams: 1975.
 16. Introduction, Thomas Mann. The Transposed Heads. San Francisco; The Allen Press: 1977.
 17. Introduction, Return to Shiva. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1983.
 18. Introduction, The Diamond Sutra. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1983.
 19. Introduction and Epilogue, E. J. Urwick, The Platonic Quest. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1983.
 20. Editor, Self-Purification: Jaina Sutra. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1983.
 21. Editor, Chants for Contemplation: Guru Nanak. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1984.
 22. Editor, Civilization: Death and Rebirth. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1985.
 23. Introduction, The Golden Verses of Pythagoras. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1983.

Pamphlets:

  1. My Talk with the Dalai Lama. East India Association, London. East and West Ltd., 1961.
  2. The New Learning: Global 2000 Report. Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1980.
  3. Gandhian Trusteeship. Institute of World Culture, Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1985. Indian Edition, Ahmedabad, 1986.
  4. The Gandhian Bridge Between Heaven and Earth. Gandhi Memorial Lecture, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi, 1988.

Monographs:

  1. Contemporary Indian Philosophy, Humanities Division, UNESCO, Paris, 1955.
  2. Community Development and Democratic Planning, Planning Commission, Government of India, New Delhi, 1956.
  3. Systematization of Norms. Institute of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Oslo, 1958.
  4. Reconstruction of Indian Polity, Conference of Oxford Dons with Jayaprakash Narayan and Arthur Koestler, 1959.
  5. Interviews with Lord Pethick-Lawrence and Mr. Short on the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 1960-1961.
  6. Interview with Albert West on Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa, 1961.

Almanacs:

  1. Editor, The Aquarian Almanac, 1978-1989.

Contributions to Journals, Periodicals & Conferences:

  1. Articles on Secularism and Democratic Decentralization, Manas, Los Angeles, 1948.
  2. Drafted report on North American Universities with Professor Goldberg, Oslo Conference of World Union of Students, 1951.
  3. "The Message of the Buddha", The Middle Way, London, 1951.
  4. "The Bhagavad Gita", Christmas Number, Isis, Oxford, 1952.
  5. Drafted World Constitution with Professor Louis Sohn, Copenhagen Conference on World Federal Government, 1954.
  6. "Mirroring the Macrocosm", Annual Report, Bangalore; Indian Institute of World Culture 1955.
  7. "Foreshadowing the Future", Annual Report, Bangalore; Indian Institute of World Culture: 1955.
  8. Reviews and "Ends and Sayings", The Aryan Path, 1954-1955.
  9. "British Power and the Transmission of European Culture", Comprendre, Rome,1955.
 10. "Economic Planning in India and China", St. Antony‘s Papers, London, 1957.
 11. "International Order and World Politics", Indian Yearbook of International Affairs, Madras, 1957.
 12. Book review on Economics for The Journal of Asian Studies, 1957.
 13. Dialogues with Arnold Toynbee on the Glass Curtain (three tapes), UNESCO, 1959. (Reprinted in The Glass Curtain, 1965).
 14. "Representative Government and Public Liberties in the New States", Indian Yearbook of International Affairs, Madras, 1960.
 15. Book review, International Affairs, London, 1960.
 16. "Utilitarianism and Empire", The Listener, London, 1960.
 17. Book review, The Observer, 1960.
 18. "The Newly Independent Countries and the Problems Involved in the Creation of a Democratic State", Archiv Fur Rechte Und Sozial Philosophie, Zürich, 1961.
 19. "The Passionate Bridge Builder", The Observer, London, 1961.
 20. "The Man in the Middle", The Guardian, London, 1961.
 21. Discussion on the BBC on "Who is a Civilized Man" with Harold Nicholson and Bernard Williams, London, 1961.
 22. "Tagore", The Observer, 1962.
 23. "The World Facing Europe" and "The European Idea", The Journal of the European Cultural Foundation, 1962 (Addresses to the Brussels Conference and Seminar, Spring 1962).
 24. Drafted report with Francis Sutton and Alan Pfieffer for Council on World Tensions, Oxford Conference, 1962.
 25. Book reviews, International Affairs, London, 1961-1963.
 26. "The Significance and Survival of Tibet", Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, Lecture at the Royal Society, London, 1962.
 27. Review articles, Gandhi Marg, New Delhi, 1962.
 28. "Gandhi’s View of Human Nature", Gandhi Marg, New Delhi, 1962 (Reprinted in Manas, Los Angeles, 1963).
 29. "Gandhi’s Interpretation of History", Gandhi Marg, New Delhi, 1962 (Reprinted in Manas, Los Angeles, 1963).
 30. Book reviews, Pacific Affairs, London, 1963.
 31. Discussion on BBC television on E. M. Forster with Frank Kermode, London, 1963.
 32. Book reviews, Political Studies, Oxford, 1963, 1967.
 33. Address on Modern Art and Civilization and contribution on Intercultural Understanding, Center for Human Understanding, Washington, 1964 (Extract published in symposium, edited by J. Nef).
 34. Contribution to Learning From the Romans, Fund for the Republic, 1966.
 35. Contribution to Capital Punishment, Fund for the Republic, 1966.
 36. "Is Natural Law an Empty Box?" Center Diary, Santa Barbara, 1967.
 37. Discussion with Joan Baez on Gandhi, "Tender as a Lotus and Hard as Granite", Center Diary, Santa Barbara, 1967.
 38. Discussion with Arnold Toynbee on the Hippies, The Center Magazine, 1967.
 39. Paper on "International Politics and World Order- the Dialectic", Pacem en Terris Conference, Fund for the Republic, 1967.
 40. Book review, American Political Science Review, 1967.
 41. "The Ethics of Revolution" (tape with answers to Henry Luce), The Center Magazine,1968.
 42. Discussion on "The Scottish Enlightenment and America" with Herbert Schneider and Scott Buchanan (tape), Fund for the Republic, 1968.
 43. Paper on "Equality and Elitism: The Unfinished Revolution", Concluding Lecture, U.C.S.B. Centenary Series, 1968.
 44. "The Contemporary Revolution", Indian & Foreign Review, New Delhi, 1976 (Lecture to the Law Society, New Delhi).
 45. "Global Pointers", Indian & Foreign Review, New Delhi, 1976.
 46. "Perspectives and Presuppositions in Political Theory", Indian Journal of Political Science, 1979.
 47. Lecture and radio interview, "The Unfinished American Dream", California State University, San Luis Obispo, November 1980.
 48. Comments on Danilo Dolci’s presentation of the Dialectics of Human Interaction, The Hutchins Centre, January 16, 1981.
 49. Address on Religion and the Problem of Violence, Workshop on Problems of Peace, Trinity Episcopalian Church, Santa Barbara, March 3, 1981.
 50. Review article on "J. P. Narayan and Total Revolution", Journal of Asian Studies, August 1981.
 51. Address on "Political Philosophy of World Community", U.C.S.B. Conference on the Global Community, February 12, 1982.
 52. Book review on G. D. H. Cole, Journal of Politics, May 1983.
 53. Radio broadcast on Non-Violence, Nuclear Disarmament and the Future. KPFK (Public Broadcasting Service), January 30, 1983.
 54. Book review on Political Inquiry, Western Political Review, 1984.
 55. Paper on "Gandhi on Civilization, Religion and Politics", Claremont Conference on Gandhi, 1984 (To be published in the John Hicks’ symposium).
 56. Lectures on the Platonic Dialectic and the Gandhian Dialectic, Marymount College, Los Angeles, 1984.
 57. Lectures on Gandhian Non-Violence and Martin Luther King, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, 1984.
 58. Vichara Lecture on Enlightenment and Revolution: The Post-Modern Age, The Indian Institute of Science, 1984.
 59. Annual Lecture on World Community and Peace, Indian Institute of World Culture, 1984.
 60. Lecture on Buddhi Yoga, Maitri Bhavan, Bangalore, 1984.
 61. Lecture on Gandhi and the Twentieth Century, India International Centre, 1984.
 62. Lecture on the Indian National Congress, U.C.L.A. Centenary Conference, 1984.
 63. Lectures on Non-Violence and Transcendence, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Winter 1985.
 64. "The Seven Deadly Sins", Brooks Lecture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 1985 (Published in Hermes, Santa Barbara; Concord Grove Press: 1985).
 65. Paper on "Gandhian Socialism", Philadelphia Conference on Gandhi, 1985 (To be published in symposium).
 66. Talk on Jiddu Krishnamurti, National Public Radio, February, 1986.
 67. "Gandhian Trusteeship", Gandhi Marg, Special Number, 1985.
 68. Foreword to Gandhi on Peace and War by Dr. S. Pun, Praeger: 1987.
 69. Lecture on "The Humanity of the Future", University of Colombo, December, 1987.
 70. Inaugural Gandhi Memorial Lecture, "The Gandhian Bridge", Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, January 31, 1988.

[edit] Quotations

"...the Brotherhood of Bodhisattvas, the Society of Sages, the Lodge of Mahatmas continuously resides on this cosmic plane of supreme cognition. These self-luminous beings are everywhere and nowhere.... Yet, while there are ... secret centres of initiation, access to the Brotherhood has nothing to do with physical nearness or distance. Mahatmas are essentially beings who ceaselessly function on unseen planes of ideation mirroring universal states of consciousness. Any individual anywhere who is universal in spirit, non-sectarian in attitude, free from fixation upon place or time, who is truly devoted to universal good and human welfare, may come into the radius of influence of the Brotherhood of Bodhisattvas and their accredited agents in the world." -- Sri Raghavan Iyer, January, 1980

"It is truly the case that the Perfect Sage has no name and no form. He lives in the nameless, and he is formless. But the current of light-energy and good represented by such a being leaves one no choice except to be with it or to be tossed away by its force. Starting from small concepts and simple examples, one can see that the notion of perfectibility embraces something so much vaster than can ever be put into any categories. At the same time, it is a viable, living, relevant ideal for every human being, because each human being archetypally goes through the same stages, is involved in the same powers and faculties, and lives in a common field of space, time and energy. Every human being by day, and certainly in deep sleep at night, experiences something of the true meaning of the odyssey of the soul in its long and immemorial quest towards the perfecting of all humanity."

--from "The Philosophy of Perfection [2] mple examples, one can see that the notion of perfectibility embraces something so much vaster than can ever be put into any categories. At the same time, it is a viable, living, relevant ideal for every human being, because each human being archetypally goes through the same stages, is involved in the same powers and faculties, and lives in a common field of space, time and energy. Every human being by day, and certainly in deep sleep at night, experiences something of the true meaning of the odyssey of the soul in its long and immemorial quest towards the perfecting of all humanity."

"...the State nor any social organization is allowed to flout with impunity the sacred principle that every man is entitled to his relative truth and no one can claim the right to coerce another, to treat him as a means to his own end." --from [3]