To one of the following meetings, G., returns on the question of the conscience. The psychic functions and the physical functions, he/it says, cannot be understand so much that one didn't seize that they can work, the some as others, in of the different conscience states. There are four states of possible conscience for the man (he/it put the accent on the word man). But the plain man, in of other terms the man n° 1, 2 or 3, only lives in the two the lowest conscience states. The two superior conscience states are him inaccessible, and although he/it can have knowledge of it by lightnings, he/it is incapable to understand them and he/it judges them of the point of view of these two lower conscience states that is him usual.

" The first, the sleep, is the passive state in which men pass a third, and even often the half of their life. And the second, where they pass the other half of their life, is this state in which they circulate by streets, write books, converse of sublime topics, make the politics, enters -kill themselves: it is a state that they consider how active and calls " lucid " conscience or " state of vigil of the conscience. "

These expressions of " lucid " conscience or ds ' " state of vigil of the conscience " seems have been given by derision, especially if one realizes of that that should be a " lucid " conscience and what is actually this state in which the man lives and acts.

" The second state of conscience is the recall of one, or self-awareness, conscience of his/her/its own being. He/it is usually admitted that we have this state of conscience or that we can have him at will. Our science and our philosophy didn't see that we don't possess this state of conscience and that our alone desire is incapable to create it in ourselves, so clean that either our decision.

" The third state of conscience is the objective conscience. In this state, the man can see things as she is. Sometimes, in his/her/its lower states of conscience, he/it can have lightnings of this superior conscience. Religions of all peoples contain testimonies on the possibility of such a state of conscience, that they qualify d ' illumination ", or of various other names, and say indescribable. But the only correct way toward the objective conscience passes by the development of the self-awareness. A plain man, brought artificially to a state of objective conscience and brought back to his/her/its usual state then, won't remember of anything and will think merely that he/it fainted during a certain time. But the state of self-awareness, the man can have lightnings of objective conscience and can keep the memory of it.

" The fourth state of conscience quite represents a state different of the precedent; it is the result of an interior growth and a long and difficult work on one.

" This counterpart the third state of conscience constitutes the right natural of the man as it is and, if the man doesn't possess it, it is solely because his/her/its conditions of life are anomalous. Without no exaggeration, one can say that to the present time the third state of conscience doesn't appear in the man that by very brief and very rare lightnings and that it is impossible to give back it more permanent without a special practice.

" For the big majority of people, even cultivated and thinking, the main obstacle on the way of the acquirement of the self-awareness, it is that they believe to possess it; in of other terms, they are quite convinced to already be conscious of themselves and to possess everything that comes with this state: the individuality, in the sense of a " Me " permanent and unchangeable, will, the capacity to make, and so forth. However he/it is well obvious that a man won't see the interest to acquire by a long and difficult work a thing that, in his/her/its opinion, he already possesses. On the contrary, if you tell it to him, he/it will think or you are mad, one that you tempt to exploit his/her/its credulity for your personal profit.

" The two superior conscience states, the " self-awareness " and the " objective " conscience are bound to the working of the man's superior centers.

" Because in addition of centers of which we already spoke, he/it exists two, the " superior " emotional center and the " superior " intellectual center of it again. These centers are us of it; they are fully developed and work all the time, but their work never arrives until our plain conscience. The reason must be searched for some in the special properties of our supposed " lucid conscience.

Let's " consider some events of the life of the humanity. For example, the war. There is the war at the moment. What does it mean? It means that several millions of sleepy endeavor to destroy several millions of sleepy. Them himself would refuse there, naturally, if they awakened. Everything that happens is currently due to this sleep.

" These two states of conscience, sleep and state of vigil, are as subjective one that the other. It is only while beginning to remember himself that the man can really awaken. Around it all the life takes an aspect and a different sense then. He/it sees it like a life of people lulled, a life of sleep. Everything that people say, everything that they make, they say it and make it in the sleep. Nothing of it can have the least value therefore. Only the wakening, and what takes to the wakening, has a real value.

" How many times wondered me if he/it would not be possible to stop wars? Certainly, it would be possible. He/it would be sufficient that people awaken. It seems well little thing. Anything be be on the contrary more difficult, because the sleep is brought and maintained by all the ambient life, by all conditions of the ambiance.

" How to awaken? How to escape this sleep? These questions are the more important, most vital that a man has to put itself/themselves. But before putting itself/themselves them, he/it should convince himself/itself of makes it even of his/her/its sleep. And he/it won't be him possible to convince itself/themselves of it that while trying to awaken. When he/it will have understood that he/it doesn't remember of himself and that the recall of one means an awakening, until a certain point, and, when it will have seen by experience how much it is difficult to remember oneself, then it will understand that it is not sufficient to awaken to have the desire of it. More rigorously, we will say that a man cannot awaken by himself. But twenty men agree that the first among them that will awaken, will awaken others, they already have a luck. However it even is insufficient, because these twenty men can be going to sleep at the same time, and to dream that he/it awakens. This is not therefore enough. It is necessary more again. These twenty men must be awake by a man who is not either himself sleepy who doesn't fall asleep as easily that others, or that is going to sleep consciously when it is possible, when he/it cannot result any pain of it nor for him nor for others. They must find such a man and must hire him so that he/it awakens them and permits them more to fall again in the sleep. Without it, he/it is impossible to awaken. It is what it is necessary to understand.

" He/it is possible to think during a thousand of year, he/it is possible to write the whole libraries, to invent theories by millions and all it in the sleep, without no possibility of awakening. On the contrary, these theories and these written books either made by these sleepy will have merely the effect of to drag other men in the sleep, and so forth.

" He/it has nothing new there in the idea of sleep. Nearly since the creation of the world, he/it has been told men whom they were lulled, and that they had to awaken. How many times read us, for example, in Gospels ": Awaken you, " stay up ", don't sleep. The Christ's disciples, even in the garden of Gethsémané, while their master prayed for the last time, slept. It says all. But men understand it them? He/it takes it for a face of rhetoric, a metaphor. They don't see at all that it must be taken to the lettre.Et again here he/it is easy to understand why. They would need to awaken a little, or to tempt at less to awaken. Seriously, he/it has often been asked me why gospels don't speak never of the sleep.... He/it is question of it to all pages. It shows merely that people read Gospels while sleeping. So much that a man is in a deep sleep, entirely flooded by his/her/its dreams, he cannot even think that he is lulled. If he/it could think that he/it is lulled, he/it would awaken. And so go things, without that men have the least idea of everything that he/it loses because of their sleep. As I already told it, the man, as he/it is, as the nature created him, can become a being conscious of one. Created to this end, he/it is born to this end. But he/it is born among the sleepy, and, naturally, he/it falls to his/her/its tower in a deep just sleep just as he/it should begin to take conscience of himself. Here all things play their role: the involuntary imitation of adults by the child, their voluntary or involuntary suggestions and their supposedly " education ". All tentative of awakening on behalf of the child is immediately broken. Fatally. And how many efforts later to awaken; what help will have one not need when thousand of habits that push to the sleep will have been accumulated. One very rarely delivers himself of it. And, since his/her/its same childhood, the man already lost, in most cases, the possibility to awaken; he lives all his/her/its life in the sleep and he dies in the sleep. Besides, good of people dies a long time before their physical death. But the moment is not again had just spoken some. " Now, recall yourselves what I already told you. A fully developed man, what I call " a man to the strong sense of this word " should possess four states of conscience. The plain men, that is to say men n°s 1,2 and 3, live only in two states of conscience. They know, or the less can know, the existence of the fourth state. All these " mystical " states and another one are defined badly. However, when it is not about fraud nor semblances, it is there of illuminate them of what we call a state of objective conscience.

" But the man doesn't know anything of the third state of conscience and he doesn't even suspect it. He/it is even impossible that he/it can suspect it, because, if you explain it to him, if you tell it some what he/it consists, he/it will tell you that such is his/her/its usual state. Doesn't consider himself him not himself as a conscious being who governs his/her/its own life? Facts contradict it, but he/it looks how at them accidental or momentary, intended to manage of themselves. Imagining as well as he/it possesses the self-awareness, in a way by right of birth, he/it won't come him to the mind to tempt to either approach him to get it. And however, in the absence of the self-awareness or the third state of conscience, the fourth is impossible, if this is not lightnings.

However the knowledge, this truly objective knowledge, that men to hear would endeavor them to conquer, is not possible that in the fourth state of conscience.. The knowledge acquired in the state plain of conscience is constantly mixed of dreams. You have a complete picture of the man 1 being, 2 and 3, thus. "