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European peoples, but of the entire mankind-a promise the new United Nations has to fulfil. The UN is the collective redemption, the eschatological hope of the entire mankind.
The meta-psychic analysis we are speaking about is the synthesis of both these liberations, the internal and the external. As such it is the joint adventure of man and God, of Ego and Solf, of the meso-cosmos and the metacosmos. Tbree cycles of collective liberation
We can identify three historical cycles of collective liberation in the evolution of human civilisation. The first is the biblical liberation, the symbolic passge of under Moses of the Israel, the chosen People, from slavery in Egypt, from the slavery of sin to the promised land of freedom. Symbolically it is the pass-over of the Ego to the Self, the meso-cosmos to the Meta-cosmos-the passage towards the New Jerusalem, which remains eschatological hope of hisory.
The second historical cycle was the collective liberation achieved by the Eastern man, consummated in the Buddha-hood, the goal of Nirvana, the affirmation of the collective Enlightenment of the race. Here the reality of meso-comos, the empirical world of senses, was denied, Samsara was declared as an illusion created by our senses, and the meta-comos of the Self was colleciively affirmed. Thus the social order was laid on the foundation, not of the Ego, but of the Self. Truth, Non-killing, compassion to all living tbings became the hallmark of civilisation. Indiā, and the East in general, observed universal vegetarianism. The five fold nonviolent principle of Panchsheel, which was forcefully articulated and re-validated by Gandhi during the Independence struggle of India, and later on associated with the idea of Nonalignment, became the operative principle of the socio-political order. Thus the eastern path of liberaiion bequeaths to man the idea of nonviolent, nonaligned, consensual new world order, which
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