While the former aims at the restoration of «true man,» «original man,» the goal of the latter was the transcendence of the human condition, the acquisition of some degree of freedom from the needs or laws that
determine ordinary human life by assimilation to a radically different state of being [The Heating Journey (Pantheon, 1973) p. 17].
It was recognised in Edinburgh in 1910 that «the following ten years would in all probability constitute a turning point in
human history and might be more critical in
determining the spiritual revolution of humankind than many centuries of
ordinary experience.