Initiation and initiative : an exploration of the life and ideas of Dimitrije Mitrinović

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races. The organism could not change without the cells themselves changing; and the cells would not change unless they recognised that they were all parts of a single body sharing an indivisible fate and future. The bulk of Mitrinovic’s energy in the 1920s and ’30s was devoted to working with others on ways to develop such a “supra-human” consciousness. Having sketched out the grand scheme, the world context, in The New Age, he was henceforth to work towards Sophia/Socialism/ Universal Humanity with individual friends and associates and through a constant stream of public initiatives right up to the outbreak of World War II.