The highest possibility of consciousness

What we call mankind is but the long, gradual, arduous, often tragic, and always dangerous transition between the level of "life" — as we know it in the earth's biosphere, where it operates as a quasi-instinctual and compulsive type of homogeneity — and that of the Pleroma. The highest possibility of consciousness — together with the most effective capacity for action and the purest cosmic or divine will — operate in this Pleroma state. Subconsciously, if not consciously, humanity aspires to such a state because it is humanity's function on this planet to be the transition between two levels of being: the vegetable and Pleroma states. Man is an animal into which the seed of divinity has been "sown" or to use another metaphor, onto which the capacity to become divine was "grafted." This one capacity belonged to superior minds (or mental beings) who, having "grafted" an "emanation" of their power onto protohuman beings, have remained involved in the result — that is, in our "human, all too human" efforts to reach the Pleroma state by following the arduous path of discipleship or transformation. - Dane Rudhyar