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Moral improvement require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer; For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse that already threaten, the whole civilization will risks to disappear.

African Spir
Devoting ourselves too much to an exclusive search of a material happiness, of ephemeral goods, one fails to appreciate the true realities of life and one let the spirit decline and dry up.

African Spir
The incorporation of every individual in a collective mechanism of production, would mean the renunciation for man himself of its independence and his dignity as a rational being. The results of such a state of things would be: regression and deterioration in every fields of life. For the true progress consist in the accomplishment of higher ends, and these would be directly made impossible in a coercive social mechanism. Let us think to the fate that, in these conditions, new truths would have in store.

African Spir
As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards the accomplishment of its true destinies.

African Spir
Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

African Spir
The doctrine expounded by me is the true one, but I am not its author. I have only been, so to speak, the soil in which it has germinated and has developed itself with an extreme slowness in the course of long years. Also there has never been such a disproportion between the man and his work than in my case, and what is the saddest, is that one has to suffer because of the incapacity and the weakness of the other. A man more capable than me, possessing this doctrine, would already have stirred the world.

African Spir
So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware of their true mission, would want to get on to abolish every politics aiming at expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them formidable armies and crushing war budgets.

African Spir
The divine element manifests itself in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence religious.

African Spir
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection.

African Spir
It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value. Any attempt to rise up outwardly above others, or to want to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace in that way to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.

African Spir
Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

African Spir