Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
13. Opposition of the Hostile Forces
When I said “no more necessary”, I did not mean that
their action could not go on – I think I expressly said that if the 
sadhaks persisted in opening themselves to it, it would continue. There is a
difference between the action of the hostile powers and the ordinary action of
the lower nature. The latter of course goes on until it is changed but there is
no necessity for it to take the form of hostile attacks and upsettings; it can
be treated as a machinery that has to be set right and with the aid of the
higher Light and Power can be set right. There are several who were once taken
by hostile attacks who have now reached the point where they can follow this
method, others are approaching it – some of course have always followed and
never were attacked, at least in their mind and vital. But there are still many
who are very far from it and so the action of the Hostiles continues.