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\nIntroduction<\/a>   Notes<\/a>   Book 1<\/a>   Book II<\/a>   Book III<\/a>   Book IV<\/a>   
\nBook V<\/a>   Book VI<\/a>   Book VII<\/a>   Book VIII<\/a>   
\nBook IX<\/a>   Book X<\/a>   Book XI<\/a>   Book XII<\/a>
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Book Two. The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds<\/p>\n

\nCanto I<\/a>    Canto II<\/a>    Canto III<\/a>    Canto IV<\/a>    
\nCanto V<\/a>
\n    Canto VI<\/a>    Canto VII<\/a>    Canto VIII<\/a>    
\nCanto IX<\/a>
\n    Canto X<\/a>    Canto XI<\/a>    Canto XII<\/a>    
\nCanto XIII<\/a>    Canto XIV<\/a>    
\nCanto XV<\/a>           \n<\/p>\n

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\nBook Two: Canto 1<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThe World-Stair<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Summary<\/B>
As
\nAswapathy moves in the realms of the Unknown, all that is beyond the
\nhuman ken comes into his range. There is no limit anywhere; a
\nboundless movement fills a boundless peace. Beyond this earth
\nexistence he enters into another existence where the Soul essays in
\nthe Oneness of all amidst the free play of the multitude of
\npossibilities released from the Infinite. Here the Inexpressible
\nmoves into multiple expression and the Soul takes delight in all
\nexperience which is perceived and realised to be one plan.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy enters into
\nidentity with the immensity that he sees and feels around. Every
\nform, every movement, reveals to him some aspect, some state of the
\nIneffable. All the worlds of heaven and hell imagined by the human
\nmind are found here in their true setting providing a full forum for
\nthe extremes of pleasure and pain. A vast occult domain opens before
\nhim. Knowledge in new contents, Power in flaming intensities, Bliss
\nin endless waves offer themselves to his experience. But in all this
\nvaried opulence of the Infinite Aswapathy misses the secret that
\nholds all in a whole, the truth that welds the All to the One.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nLooking still inward,
\nAswapathy comes to see an immense world pile, a huge column of worlds
\nupon worlds rising from the plinth of Matter and ascending into the
\nunknowable summits of the Spirit. He perceives in it the great stair
\ndown which the Spirit has descended and up which the Soul has to
\nascend.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThis stair of gradations of
\nbeing, of consciousness is reproduced in each individual. It links up
\nthe lowest levels of inconscience with the highest levels of
\nsuperconscience and makes possible man’s journey from one end to the
\nother. This graded consciousness\u2014each graded formulation exerting
\npressure upon others\u2014presses all into an upward movement. The steps
\nof this stair of consciousness are the paces of the Soul in its
\nreturn.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThese are the grades that
\nwere formed in the downward plunge of the Divine Consciousness when
\nit originally descended to save and redeem the spirit that had issued
\nforth in the creative adventure and got lost in a total Nescience.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAll these gradations of
\nconsciousness, and the worlds based upon them, are powerful factors
\nin the evolutionary progression of the Earth. She is urged from
\nbelow, guided from within, pulled up from above. There is a
\nMaster-Intelligence working out the process of a Mystery the full
\nmeaning of which will be evident only when all is done.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nImpelled by this inner Seer
\nwho knows the entire Plan and embodying the aspiration of the
\nEarth-World, Aswapathy journeys, climbing step upon step upon the
\ngiant world-stair, detained by no glittering station of world or
\nheaven, across the eternal Silences around and a great undiminishing
\nLight above, towards a goal that he sees not but to which he is
\nirresistibly drawn.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Universe of the
\nUnknown<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn a
\nprofound existence beyond earth\u2019s
Parent or kin to our ideas
\nand dreams
Where Space is a vast experiment of the soul,
In a
\ndeep oneness of all things that are,
The universe of the Unknown
\narose. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nBeyond the ranges of this
\nmaterial universe there lies an entirely different order of creation.
\nBut though it is constituted differently from ours, based upon
\ndifferent principles, it is not totally strange; for it resembles in
\nmany ways what the human mind has always imagined and dreamt,
\nespecially in its features of plasticity, beauty and freedom. In fact
\nit is because of the existence of these truths above and their
\npressure to manifest here below that the human mind is moved to
\nconceive or dream in their images. There, Space is not a fixed
\nmaterial extension as here, but a free, variable self-projection of
\nthe soul. Again, there it is not the many, the multiplicity of
\ncreation that is predominant as here, but a profound Oneness that is
\npervading, a Unity that upholds all.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Self-Creation (I)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nself-creation without end or pause
Revealed the grandeurs of the
\nInfinite:
It flung into the hazards of its play
A million
\nmoods, a myriad energies,
The world-shapes that are fancies of
\nits Truth
And the formulas of the freedom of its Force. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIt is a continuous movement
\nof becoming of the Infinite Being; not a construction limited in
\nspace and time, but an endless, unbounded manifestation of itself by
\nthe Glory. The Creative Being pours out of itself a multitude of its
\nstates of Consciousness, a multitude of its jets of Force. Each form
\nis based upon some Idea in the underlying Truth, each creation
\nrepresents a formulation of the free workings of the Power of that
\nTruth.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Self-Creation (II)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIt
\npoured into the Ever-stable\u2019s flux
A bacchic rapture and revel
\nof Ideas,
A passion and motion of everlastingness. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe movement of
\nmanifestation proceeds on the bosom of the unmoving Permanent,
\nsth\u0101nu. The manifestation is the ecstatic dance of Shiva,
\nrapturously throwing into figures the innumerable truths pressing for
\nexpression. The Eternal pours itself into movement, zestfully and
\nmeaningfully.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Self-Creation (II)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere
\nrose unborn into the Unchanging\u2019s surge
Thoughts that abide in
\ntheir deathless consequence,
Words that immortal last though
\nfallen mute,
Acts that brought out from Silence its dumb sense,
\n
Lines that convey the inexpressible. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nInto this multitudinous
\nBecoming, which, however, leaves the Being pure in its sheer
\nexistence, arise Thoughts and Ideas that are no product of any
\nmind-activity but exist as natural conceptual self-castings of the
\nEternal with their own unceasing effects in the unrolling of the
\nuniverse, words that are the inevitable sound-bodies of these
\nThoughts ever-living whether in movement or not, actions that project
\nthe burthen of the looming Silence, configurations that suggest the
\nTruth that is beyond expression.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Power at Work<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nEternal\u2019s stillness saw in unmoved joy
His universal Power at
\nwork display
In plots of pain and dramas of delight
The
\nwonder and beauty of her will to be. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll movement of
\nmanifestation goes on on a base that is stable, uninvolved in the
\nmovement. The Eternal Brahman stays still, in position and in mood.
\nHis self-existent Bliss is neither increased nor decreased by the
\nmovement; it is the same for ever. He regards from his status.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nIt is his Conscious Power,
\nShakti, that moves into action and brings out the numberless
\nuniverses that constitute her creation. Her will works out the
\nmanifestation marvellously through myriad movements of
\nself-effectuation of which apparent pleasure and pain are the
\npositive and negative strains.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Single Plan<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll,
\neven pain, was the soul\u2019s pleasure here;
Here all experience
\nwas a single plan,
The thousandfold expression of the One. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nUnlike as in the material
\nworld of Ignorance where pain and pleasure are jarring opposites and
\nwhere pain holds happiness at ransom, in the higher realms of Light,
\npain reveals itself to be not a contrary but a complement, a reverse
\nside of pleasure. The being takes all experience in delight; even
\nwhat is called pain evokes the sap of delight. All that is
\nexperienced here is governed by a Unity of Consciousness; all
\nmovements are so many jets of the same ocean of Conscious Existence.
\nThe forms may be different, but the substance is the same everywhere.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Single View<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll
\ncame at once into his single view;
Nothing escaped his vast
\nintuitive sight,
Nothing drew near he could not feel as kin:
He
\nwas one spirit with that immensity. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIf one breaks out of the
\nshell of the separative ego and allows one’s consciousness to expand
\nin its natural movement of progressive enlargement, there comes a
\ndecisive stage when there is a full identification with the One
\nInfinite that is self-extended in the Universe. When one is thus in
\nidentity with the infinite Consciousness, everything is experienced
\nas one with oneself. All is comprehended as a whole in a direct
\nvision that is commensurate with the vastness of the consciousness
\nattained\u2014unlike the way the sense-bound sight of the mortal seizes
\nthings successively piece by piece.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Structured Visions<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nImages
\nin a supernal consciousness
Embodying the Unborn who never dies,
\n
The structured visions of the cosmic Self
Alive with the
\ntouch of being\u2019s eternity
Looked at him like form-bound
\nspiritual thoughts
Figuring the movements of the Ineffable. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nBrahman, the supreme
\nReality, is neither born nor dies. It is eternal, ineffable in its
\nexistence. When it is self-moved to manifest, the truths within its
\nbeing that press to manifest cast themselves into a pre-vision of
\nwhat is to be, take shape in the Real-Idea that is the seed of all
\ncreation. What is timeless and formless moves into a state that
\nprefigures the birth of form into time.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nOne can perceive the
\ncreative Reality in this self-gathered condition when one develops
\nthe necessary consciousness that can enter into that state.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Aspects of Being<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAspects
\nof being donned world-outline; forms <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe Being that manifests is
\nmultitudinous. It is not confined to one state of existence, it is
\ninfinite in its content. When it stirs into movement for
\nmanifestation, it presents only those truths of its being that are to
\nbe released; it formulates itself in those of its aspects that seek
\nto affirm themselves in and as the contemplated creation. It is these
\ntruth-aspects that form the bases and also the frame of the
\nworld-creation to be.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Forms<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThat
\nopen moving doors on things divine,
Became familiar to his hourly
\nsight; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA form is significant for
\nwhat it embodies. Each form is a figure of the truth that ensouls it,
\nthe configuration corresponding to the particular concentration of
\nconsciousness within. On the material plane this character of form is
\nnot readily perceivable. In the subtler worlds the forms are supple,
\nchanging with the changing charges of the embodied forces; they
\nconstantly reveal what they signify. There the complex of forces is
\nin ceaseless flux and forms are seen changing accordingly.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Living Symbols<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nsymbols of the Spirit\u2019s reality,
The living bodies of the
\nBodiless
Grew near to him, his daily associates. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll forms are symbols,
\nsymbols of the Spirit that is formless in itself. But they are not
\nmere figurations that signify a reality that exists elsewhere. They
\nare living bodies, conscious self-castings of the spiritual Reality
\nthat organises itself in those formulations for its manifestation.
\nEach form has relevance to the particular concentration of the Spirit
\nthat ensouls it.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThe Reality is indeed
\nformless in its absoluteness, but it is not bound to its
\nformlessness. It assumes forms, changes forms, discards forms, in the
\nprocess of its manifestation.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Seeings of Mind<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nexhaustless seeings of the unsleeping Mind,
Letterings of its
\ncontact with the invisible,
Surrounded him with countless
\npointing signs; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere is a state of
\nconsciousness in which the mind is fully awake, not dormant in any
\npart or parts under the pull of physical inertia or exhaustion. It is
\nwide awake on all its levels, perceives everything that comes within
\nits range on the material as well as the subtler planes of existence.
\nBut these perceptions render themselves differently on different
\nplanes. When its consciousness touches the invisible Reality, the
\ncontacts may be visually translated in terms of symbol signs, not
\nnecessarily in the form of ideas or thoughts. These signs take
\nvarious forms\u2014letters, diagrams, numbers etc.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Realms of Life<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nvoices of a thousand realms of Life
Missioned to him her mighty
\nmessages. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nLife is not a mechanical
\nenergy, nor is the material universe its sole field of operation. In
\nthe physical world the life-force is severely restricted in its
\naction by the limiting factors of the physical world’s nature and has
\nthe appearance of a subconscious energy. But life has its own habitat
\nin the life-plane proper where it is fully conscious in its own
\nnature, with an unrestricted field extending over many worlds of
\nvarious constitution.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nLife is the characteristic
\nrendering of the cit-\u015bakti, the supreme Consciousness-Force, in this
\nmanifestation and has its appointed tasks to fulfil.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Heaven and Hell (I)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nheaven-hints that invade our earthly lives,
The dire imaginations
\ndreamed by Hell,
Which if enacted and experienced here
Our
\ndulled capacity soon would cease to feel
Or our mortal frailty
\ncould not long endure,
Were set in their sublime proportions
\nthere. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHuman imagination conceives
\nof absolutes of its profound joys and pleasures and calls them
\nheaven. It conceives of absolutes of its dreaded sufferings and pains
\nand calls them hell. It longs for one and fears the other. But if
\nthese imaginations were to be actualised in earth-experience, much of
\ntheir glow or terror would either soon wear out or they would crush
\nthe weak mortal faculties by their intensities. These intensities,
\nhowever, are not all baseless. They are verily found on the subtler
\nplanes of creation, existing in their own licence and it is this fact
\nof their existence that casts its influence on man and shapes his
\nimaginations.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Heaven and Hell (II)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere
\nlived out in their self-born atmosphere,
They resumed their
\ntopless pitch and native power; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn these realms of being
\nthere are no limits\u2014material or other\u2014to the intensities of
\nthoughts, feelings, passions and the like, things move at their
\nchosen pitch and pace. The worlds are their own, meant to provide
\nfields for their full expression; they do not have to subordinate
\nthemselves to suit the conditions of a world like the physical and
\nget diminished in their charge.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Heaven and Hell
\n(III)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nTheir
\nfortifying stress upon the soul
Bit deep into the ground of
\nconsciousness
The passion and purity of their extremes,
The
\nabsoluteness of their single cry
And the sovereign sweetness or
\nviolent poetry
Of their beautiful or terrible delight. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nLike all else in Creation,
\nthe scope provided for the full unobstructed sway of feelings and
\nexperiences of the kind that obtain in the states of heaven and hell
\nhas a meaning and purpose in the growth of the evolving soul. The
\nbest and the worst, the beautiful and the ugly, both contribute
\ndifferently to the enrichment of the soul’s growing stature. At
\nbottom, both the pleasurable and the painful are two forms of the one
\nstream of Delight that runs through all life as its sap. The soul
\nexperiences this sap of delight in various forms, in modifications as
\nwell as in the utter purity and nakedness of its presentation. The
\nsoul may choose to taste all possible formulations of this Delight in
\ntheir extremes and heaven and hell provide the field therefore.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
The Occult Felt<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll
\nthought can know or widest sight perceive
And all that thought
\nand sight can never know,
All things occult and rare, remote and
\nstrange
Were near to heart\u2019s contact, felt by spirit-sense. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHuman knowledge proceeds by
\nconception and perception. But there is much in the universe that is
\nbeyond these two faculties of man; it is not patent to the eye, not
\nseizable by the mental intelligence, but nevertheless real and
\neffective in life. All this, however, is not un-knowable. It may not
\nbe knowable by the reasoning mind, but it lends itself to be felt,
\nexperienced and lived by the heart-being, by the consciousness that
\nis centred in the heart and which functions through its own subtle
\nsense.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAs one grows into a
\nconsciousness larger than the mind’s, this subtler faculty comes into
\naction and the range of knowledge and experience gets immeasurably
\nwidened.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Self-Discoveries<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAsking
\nfor entry at his nature\u2019s gates
They crowded the widened spaces
\nof his mind,
His self-discovery\u2019s flaming witnesses,
Offering
\ntheir marvel and their multitude. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhat man is normally aware
\nof is not the whole of his existence. There are regions in his own
\nbeing, not to speak of the vast domains in outer Nature, which are
\nclosed to his limited, outward, surface-bound sight. When, however,
\nhe makes an effort to know himself, delves into the depths of his own
\nself, realms open of whose existence he was not aware before. New
\nsights, bright experiences, striking movements flood his widening
\nconsciousness, testifying to the glorious kingdoms that await
\ndiscovery and possession by him.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
New Environment<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThese
\nnow became new portions of himself,
The figures of his spirit\u2019s
\ngreater life,
The moving scenery of his large time-walk
Or
\nthe embroidered tissue of his sense:
These took the place of
\nintimate human things
And moved as close companions of his
\nthoughts,
Or were his soul\u2019s natural environment. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll that is unfamiliar,
\nstrange and occult in the normal life of man bounded in his physical
\nnature becomes familiar, common and patent in the higher orders of
\nexistence. To the expanded consciousness larger domains of being come
\ninto view and form part of its possessions. The mind casts its net
\nwider, thoughts move into new realms and seize their contents. The
\nsubtler senses awake and grasp in their embrace new objects of
\nexperience. The entire horizon is extended on all the levels of the
\nbeing, the spiritual, the mental, the emotional, the vital, the
\nsensuous.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Spirit\u2019s Bliss (I)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nTireless
\nthe heart\u2019s adventure of delight,
Endless the kingdoms of the
\nSpirit\u2019s bliss,
Unnumbered tones struck from one harmony\u2019s
\nstrings; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe real nature of creation
\nas a Play of Delight begins to reveal itself. Each experience yields
\na fresh flow of joy. Unlike the reaction of fatigue that sets in
\nafter a time in the life of ignorance, here, in the states of greater
\nknowledge, there are only endless vistas of Bliss; there is no
\nfalling back in exhaustion. But there is no monotony of experience.
\nEvery time it is a unique experience of bliss though all the
\nexperiences are but several waves of the one ocean of Bliss.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Spirit\u2019s Bliss
\n(II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nEach
\nto its wide-winged universal poise,
Its fathomless feeling of the
\nAll in one,
Brought notes of some perfection yet unseen,
Its
\nsingle retreat into Truth\u2019s secrecies,
Its happy sidelight on
\nthe Infinite. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nEach experience, while
\nbeing special in itself, forms in such a state of consciousness an
\nintegral part of a whole. Each is an element that builds up a total
\ngrowing perfection. Each gives a glimpse into the profounds of the
\nBliss ineffable. Each reveals some auspicious aspect of the Infinite.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
All Made by the
\nUnique<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll
\nwas found there the Unique had dreamed and made
Tinging with
\nceaseless rapture and surprise
And an opulent beauty of
\npassionate difference
The recurring beat that moments God in
\nTime. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs one rises into a clearer
\nand fuller vision, in the course of the supreme Quest, one sees that
\nall that is an actualisation of what the creative Divine has
\nperceived in his mood to manifest. There is no end to the marvels
\nthat come out of the bosom of the Wonderful, adbhuta, in the sheer
\ndelight of his becoming. Out of the One manifest the myriad Many,
\neach of which carries a special stress of the Truth that gives it its
\ninherent individuality which persists always in some way or other.
\nThe Eternal pours himself in duration, marking each step of his
\nmovement in the moment of Time.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy saw and
\nexperienced all this universe of the Unknown, all the multitudinous
\nlines of creation in their plenary splendour. But the ultimate
\nperspective and the key to the whole Movement was still to be found.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
The Word<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOnly
\nwas missing the sole timeless Word
That carries eternity in its
\nlonely sound, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhen the Sole and One was
\nself-moved to manifest, the ancient text recalls, there was a stir, a
\nspanda, a vibration which took the form of a primordial Sound\u2014n\u0101da.
\nThis is the sound-form of Brahman, the Eternal, the Word out of which
\nthe world has come to be, the mystic Word which is represented in
\nhuman speech as OM. And OM is the sacred word that invokes the
\nEternal and links one with it.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
The Idea<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nIdea self-luminous key to all ideas, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs the Creative Reality of
\nSat-Chit-Ananda gathers itself to manifest, the truths that seek
\nmanifestation project themselves in its Vision and are cast in their
\nseed-form in the Real-Idea. This poise of the Real as the Seed-Idea
\nwhich holds all the subsequent developments in its womb in their
\nessence, is a movement of its Knowledge-Will. From it proceed the
\nvarious formulations that constitute the universe. Each form, each
\nmovement in the universe, has its own source-Idea in this realm
\nabove.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThis Idea is the real
\nparent of all the million ideas that sail into human
\nthought,\u2014formations, half-formations, malformations, all are
\nultimately to be traced to this original Idea.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
The Integer<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\ninteger of the Spirit\u2019s perfect sum
That equates the unequal
\nAll to the equal One, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe Infinite has an
\narithmetic of its own. In the wholeness of its existence, the Oneness
\nof its being is squared with the multitude of its becomings. The One
\nis the same everywhere, but the many are variously constituted and
\nvariously functioning. Both, however, find their just place in the
\nintegrality of the Supreme. This is the divine Fullness which is
\ndescribed in an ancient text as a perfect Full that remains the Full
\neven after the Full is taken out of it.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Single Sign<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nsingle sign interpreting every sign,
The absolute index to the
\nAbsolute. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nTo all the clues and their
\nmysteries in the Creation there is, at the origin of things, a
\nmaster-clue. That explains all riddles, unravels all mysteries.
\nSimilarly to the Absolute that transcends all definitions and
\nexpression there is a guiding pointer of its own kind.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nTo know the full
\nsignificance of all that is in the Universe and even of all that is
\nabove it, one has to obtain the key-clue that turns on all locked
\nmysteries and this is found in the heart of the Truth-Consciousness,
\nthe Gnosis.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
World-Pile (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n… a lone immense
\nhigh-curved world-pile <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe material world which
\nthe physical senses perceive and readily render to our experience is
\nnot the whole of Creation. A subtler sight perceives a number of
\nworlds on serried planes of an infinite Existence. The worlds are
\nmany but they are formed and set in a graded order, one above the
\nother, the giant whole rising like a column high into the heights of
\nthe Ineffable.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
World-Pile (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs if
\nfrom Matter\u2019s plinth and viewless base
To a top as viewless, a
\ncarved sea of worlds
Climbing with foam-maned waves to the
\nSupreme
Ascended towards breadths immeasurable;
It hoped to
\nsoar into the Ineffable\u2019s reign:
A hundred levels raised it to
\nthe Unknown. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis ascending series of
\nworlds spans the entire creation. Its foundation is lost to view in
\nthe obscurities of the material inconscient below, even as its
\nsummits are beyond sight in the spiritual superconscient above. From
\nthe known towards the unknown, from the finite into the infinite,
\nthis gradation of worlds rises across the stairs of several planes of
\nthe manifest existence.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nStarting with Earth "
\nthat is the footing ", this system of worlds rises from plane to
\nplane\u2014seven of them in all *\u2014and leads up to the infinitudes of
\nExistence whose farthest ranges are lost in an Ineffable Absolute.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


    \n\t


  • \n\tThe planes of Matter,
    \n\tLife, Mind, Supermind, Delight, Consciousness and Existence, anna,
    \n\tpr\u0101na, manas, vijn\u0101na, \u0101nanda, cit, sat.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n<\/UL>
    \n


    \n
    Temple-Tower (I)<\/B>
    \n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAs
    \nclimbs a storeyed temple-tower to heaven
    Built by the aspiring
    \nsoul of man to live
    Near to his dream of the Invisible. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe rising temple-tower is
    \nnot merely an architectural design. It has a special significance
    \nsymbolising as it does the soaring aspiration of man to reach the
    \nheights of the Infinite. The temple is an external representation of
    \nthe human body which is conceived as a living abode of Divinity. The
    \nupward urge of the soul to join the Oversoul, of the finite to reach
    \nthe Infinite, is concretely embodied in the sky-pointing tower of the
    \nedifice.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Temple-Tower (II)<\/B>
    \n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nInfinity
    \ncalls to it as it dreams and climbs;
    Its spire touches the apex
    \nof the world;
    Mounting into great voiceless stillnesses
    It
    \nmarries the earth to screened eternities. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe human spirit in its
    \nupward movement, represented by the temple-tower, is not alone in its
    \neffort. The Infinite from above bends down and lifts it towards
    \nitself; it exerts a ceaseless pressure on the climbing spirit to rise
    \nup. This tower of aspiration soars to the summits of its earth-based
    \nworld, reaches the ineffable Silence beyond and links up what is
    \nmanifest below with what is above and behind the veil, joins Earth
    \nand Heaven.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Temple-Tower (III)<\/B>
    \n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAmid
    \nthe many systems of the One
    Made by an interpreting creative joy
    \n
    Alone it points us to our journey back
    Out of our long
    \nself-loss in Nature\u2019s deeps;
    Planted on earth it holds in it
    \nall realms:
    It is a brief compendium of the Vast. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe One manifests into the
    \nMany out of the sheer joy of creation and the significance of each
    \nform or movement in it is measured by the part it plays in the joyous
    \nself-discovery of the Many as the One. The temple-tower is unique in
    \nthis respect. The manifesting Spirit plunges and loses itself as it
    \nwere in the densities and obscurities of material Nature. The way
    \nback to its home is pointed by the symbolic edifice of the rising
    \nTemple which reproduces in epitome the entire system of Creation,
    \nbeginning with the foundation below on material earth and passing
    \ninto the eternities of the Spirit above.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Stair to the Goal<\/B>
    \n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \n…
    \nsingle stair to being\u2019s goal. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nA
    \nsummary of the stages of the spirit,
    Its copy of the cosmic
    \nhierarchies
    Refashioned in our secret air of self
    A subtle
    \npattern of the universe. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nIt is
    \nwithin, below, without, above. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nWhat is in the macrocosm is
    \nrepeated in principle in the microcosm. Corresponding to the
    \ngradations of the worlds in the cosmos, there are in the individual
    \ngradations of consciousness, representing and forming successive
    \nstages or steps in the unfoldment of the Spirit. These levels of
    \nconsciousness, though not perceived in the surface being, can be
    \nexperienced in the subtler regions organised around the soul within.
    \nThey form the stair for the ascension of the soul to its goal in the
    \nsupreme Spirit. This graded consciousness is spread throughout the
    \nbeing and can be experienced and acted upon at any level by
    \nappropriate concentration.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Labouring
    \nConsciousness (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nActing
    \nupon this visible Nature\u2019s scheme
    It wakens our earth-matter\u2019s
    \nheavy doze
    To think and feel and to react to joy; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nIt is because of this
    \ngraded consciousness within that man is able to live, feel and take
    \njoy. Through its various faculties, this consciousness acts upon and
    \nreacts to things\u2014at their various levels\u2014in the outer world and
    \nin the process sets the dense physical nature into movement out of
    \nits habitual torpor and lassitude. The mind begins to think, the
    \nemotive parts to feel and the senses to respond to the delight in
    \nthings.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Labouring
    \nConsciousness (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nIt
    \nmodels in us our diviner parts,
    Lifts mortal mind into a greater
    \nair,
    Makes yearn this life of flesh to intangible aims,
    Links
    \nthe body\u2019s death with immortality\u2019s call:
    Out of the swoon of
    \nthe Inconscience
    It labours towards a superconscient Light. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThis labouring
    \nconsciousness works to give shape to greater potentialities awaiting
    \nactivisation in man; capacities and functionings of a range greater
    \nthan the human are forged by it. It urges the mind\u2014by incessant
    \npressure to exceed its first limitations of process and vision; it
    \npressurises the life-force into breaking out of its first narrow
    \nrounds of satisfaction and to seek for larger fulfilments; it makes
    \nof the death of the physical body a necessary step towards an
    \neventual immortal state by itself providing the connecting link from
    \nlife to life. In every way this self-organising consciousness strives
    \nand builds a highway for the soul to grow and journey from its sleep
    \nin the obscurity of inconscient Nature to its full awaking in the
    \nsplendour of a super-conscience.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    If Earth were All<\/B>
    \n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nIf
    \nearth were all and this were not in her,
    Thought could not be nor
    \nlife-delight\u2019s response:
    Only material forms could then be her
    \nguests
    Driven by an inanimate world-force. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nBut for this consciousness
    \nin ferment within material nature, there would be no meaningful
    \nupward movement at all. There would be no sensational delight, no
    \ndrive for enjoyment of life, no activity of thinking which enlarges
    \nthe horizon of man. There would only be a meaningless motion of
    \nmaterial forms driven by a dumb mechanical Energy. Matter would be
    \nthe base and Matter the limit.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Golden Superfluity<\/B>
    \n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nEarth
    \nby this golden superfluity
    Bore thinking man and more than man
    \nshall bear; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThis element of awaking and
    \nawakening consciousness may seem to be redundant in a self-sufficing
    \nscheme of Matter. But it is due to the pressure of this consciousness
    \nthat the thinking creature that is man becomes at all possible, man
    \nwho has taken up the course of the earth’s evolution in himself and
    \ngives a meaningful direction to it. And that is not the end of the
    \nmatter. Under the push of this developing consciousness man is slowly
    \ndeveloping into a conscient power greater than the human and is well
    \non his way to becoming a God.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Our Cause<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThis
    \nhigher scheme of being is our cause
    And holds the key to our
    \nascending fate;
    It calls out of our dense mortality
    The
    \nconscious spirit nursed in Matter\u2019s house. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nIt is the existence and the
    \noperation of this organisation of the planes of inner consciousness
    \nin man that gives a meaning to his life. In fact his very existence
    \nis made possible because of this " foundation above ". The
    \nmovement of human life is upwards and its significance can be
    \nunderstood only in the light of the workings of this consciousness.
    \nIt is the pressure from these higher ranges of consciousness that
    \nurges the soul, the element of divine consciousness embedded in
    \nMatter, to emerge out of its inconscience and steadily grow into its
    \nfull stature.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Our Determinant<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe
    \nliving symbol of these conscious planes,
    Its influences and
    \ngodheads of the unseen,
    Its unthought logic of Reality\u2019s acts
    \n
    Arisen from the unspoken truth in things,
    Have fixed our
    \ninner life\u2019s slow-scaled degrees. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThis inner stair of the
    \nbeing of man embodies the presence and the workings of the many
    \nPowers and Personalities that are active in the Cosmos. The sequence
    \nand the purpose of all that takes place in this multi-dimensional
    \ncreation, the cause of everything which lies in the ensouling truth,
    \nare known there spontaneously. All these features determine the pace
    \nand the direction of the inner evolution of the soul.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Ladder of Delivering
    \nAscent<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nIts
    \nsteps are paces of the soul\u2019s return
    From the deep adventure of
    \nmaterial birth,
    A ladder of delivering ascent
    And rungs that
    \nNature climbs to deity. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe soul is a
    \nself-projection of the Divine Being into manifestation, into a
    \nventure that involves a plunge into the densities of Matter and a
    \nslow return to its Source in the luminous Spirit building up in the
    \nprocess a field for its various experience and means for growth into
    \na divine personality embodying the rich results of its toil. The
    \nstair of gradations of consciousness in the inner being forms the
    \npathway for this ascending evolution in Nature by which Matter
    \ndiscovers itself in the Spirit.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Downward Plunge<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nOnce
    \nin the vigil of a deathless gaze
    These grades had marked her
    \ngiant downward plunge,
    The wide and prone leap of a godhead\u2019s
    \nfall. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThese series of
    \nconsciousness, constituting the ladder of ascent, originally formed
    \nthe steps along which the Divine Soul descended into evolution. This
    \nwas the course taken by the Divinity, the supreme Nature, par\u0101
    \nprak\u0157ti, when the self-manifestation was projected in the regard of
    \nthe Conscious Being and the creative Movement starting from the pure
    \nSpirit above culminated in the involution in Inconscience below. This
    \nwas the way in which by a farther and farther descent from its
    \noriginal station in the infinite Consciousness the Soul fell into a
    \nswoon of self-forgetfulness in the obscurity of the infinitesimal.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Holocaust of the
    \nSupreme<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nOur
    \nlife is a holocaust of the Supreme. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe
    \ngreat World-Mother by her sacrifice
    Has made her soul the body of
    \nour state;
    Accepting sorrow and unconsciousness
    Divinity\u2019s
    \nlapse from its own splendours wove
    The many-patterned ground of
    \nall we are. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nMan is not left to his own
    \nfate. The Creator has also entered this field of strife and labour
    \nand is suffering with his creature in order that he may rise to his
    \nfull manhood in the Divine Consciousness. The Supreme lives here in
    \nthe cosmos as the Universal Inhabitant and in the individual as the
    \nindwelling Spirit, the individual divine. The Supreme Nature, the
    \nShakti that has manifested the universe has embodied herself in her
    \nCreation; her being forms the stuff of this variegated life-movement.
    \nLeaving her natural states of full Consciousness and unbounded Bliss,
    \nthe Divine Shakti has taken upon herself all the darkness and
    \nobscurity of Ignorance, and the resultant suffering prevailing in the
    \nworld, in order to work them out in her all-seeing Wisdom and ensure
    \nfor man his high destiny.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Idol of Self<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAn
    \nidol of self is our mortality. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nLimitation, struggle,
    \ndisease and death characterise the normal existence of man. But that
    \nis not the whole truth of him; it is only a temporary state. Behind
    \nhis mortal nature is another and greater truth, the truth of immortal
    \nDivinity. The outer nature of humanity is only a frame, a seizable
    \nform of the Divine who dwells within as the self indestructible. The
    \nmortal is a figure assumed by the Immortal.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Our Earth (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nOur
    \nearth is a fragment and a residue; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThis earth is obviously not
    \nthe whole of the Universe. There are many " earths " in the
    \nlanguage of the Vedic Mystic and all together constitute a
    \nmulti-tiered gigantic Creation. The earth that is inhabited by man is
    \nonly a small part of this Whole. It is also\u2014in the descending order
    \nof the devolution of the creative Spirit\u2014the last formation, the
    \nejection into material inconscience of a supreme self-deploying
    \nConsciousness. It contains the essence of all that has preceded its
    \nformation.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Our Earth (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nHer
    \npower is packed with the stuff of greater worlds
    And steeped in
    \ntheir colour-lustres dimmed by her drowse; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe earth-nature is
    \ninstinct with the potentials of the worlds and planes that are behind
    \nand above it. For it represents a concretisation of the principles
    \nand powers that base and form those worlds. The Sat-Chit-Ananda, the
    \nworld of Mahas\u2014the Supramental, the Mind and the Life Planes of
    \nCreation are all enwombed in their principles of existence in the
    \nbody of Earth which represents material Nature. Their characteristic
    \npowers, however, are latent, obscured in the trance of her
    \ninconscience. By the process of evolution and the emergence of the
    \nconcealed consciousness, these powers come to reveal themselves.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nThe earth-potency is lit in
    \nits depths with this greater charge.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Our Earth (III)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAn
    \natavism of higher births is hers,
    Her sleep is stirred by their
    \nburied memories
    Recalling the lost spheres from which they fell. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe forces, the beings that
    \nare inhabiting the earth are precipitated from above into the
    \ndevolutionary movement. All on earth is derived from the planes and
    \nworlds above in the cosmic hierarchy. All is instinct with the
    \nmemories of those higher states of existence and there is a constant
    \npull upwards to go back to those native realms. These memories,
    \nthough not active, are always there latent in the depths and keep up
    \nthe urge for return to the domains to which they relate.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Our Earth (IV)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nUnsatisfied
    \nforces in her bosom move;
    They are partners of her greater
    \ngrowing fate
    And her return to immortality; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe earth is, as it were, a
    \ncauldron of forces and movements, ever in action, ever at strife. It
    \nis the centre and field for a mighty evolution by which mortal life
    \nseeks to arrive at Immortality\u2014a state supreme from which the whole
    \nmovement of manifestation starts. There are forces at work in this
    \nfield building the way upwards to Immortality overcoming the
    \nopposition of the elements that seek to hold things down to the
    \nstates of limitation, obscurity and death. These battling
    \nforces,\u2014vital, mental, spiritual etc.\u2014refusing to accept the
    \nnether conditions as final, help to shape the destiny of the earth in
    \nthe course of their travail.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Our Earth (V)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThey
    \nconsent to share her doom of birth and death;
    They kindle partial
    \ngleams of the All and drive
    Her blind laborious spirit to compose
    \n
    A meagre image of the mighty Whole. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThese elements and forces
    \nfrom the higher realms are at work in the terrestrial field and they
    \nshare in carrying the earth’s load, taking up in the process the yoke
    \nof mortality. But they keep the consciousness of their one origin and
    \nthrow up radiations, severally, of the One manifesting Spirit. They
    \ngo on putting pressure upon the striving mechanical earth-nature,
    \nprak\u0157ti, to build some figure\u2014however inadequate\u2014of this cosmic
    \nUnity.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nWhat this blind nature,
    \nworking in the belt of Ignorance, can erect is only a fitful shadow
    \nof the great living Unity that exists behind the veil.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Luminous Soul<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe
    \ncalm and luminous Intimacy within
    Approves her work and guides
    \nthe unseeing Power. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nBehind the strivings of the
    \nearth-nature labouring in a pervading Ignorance and obscurity there
    \nis the Soul, deeply conscient, puissant. It is this Soul closely
    \nidentified with the inner nature that sanctions the movement as the
    \nMaster and guides the operating Force as the Intelligence within,
    \nprajn\u0101.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nBehind mechanical Prakriti
    \nthere is the conscious Purusha who gives a direction and a meaning to
    \nher apparently meandering movements.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    A Puny Start<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nHis
    \nvast design accepts a puny start. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThis creation has come into
    \nbeing on some purpose. The course of this manifestation follows a
    \npattern that has been pre-visioned in the Real-Idea of the creative
    \nInfinite. The whole Movement is cast in an infinite perspective, but
    \nit follows a process of becoming that starts from the fragmented
    \ninfinitesimal, tucchyena, from the obscurity of the Inconscient. Life
    \nsprings in small bubbles, consciousness awakes in precarious
    \nvibrations. From these inchoate movements grows the mighty
    \nmanifestation of the Universe.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    World Design (I)<\/B>
    \n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAn
    \nattempt, a drawing half-done is the world\u2019s life;
    Its lines
    \ndoubt their concealed significance,
    Its curves join not their
    \nhigh-intended close. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe present state of
    \nworld-existence is evidently not the final picture of what is
    \nintended. It is really an incomplete drawing with many elements still
    \nto be brought in, many ends still to be picked up and joined; what
    \nhas been achieved so far is no index to the nature of the truths that
    \nare pressing for manifestation but have not yet found adequate
    \nexpression. This present appearance of the world may even give room
    \nto the doubt if there is any meaning at all in the world-movement.
    \nBut in fact it is only the skeletal frame that is in formation. Much
    \nis still to be done before the full figure of the intended fulfilment
    \nemerges.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    World Design (II)<\/B>
    \n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nYet
    \nsome first image of greatness trembles there, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nMaybe all in life appears
    \nas a medley of opposites, a disorder bewildering in its complexity,
    \nmoving towards none knows for certain where. But a careful eye cannot
    \nfail to perceive some faint outline of the marvellous edifice that is
    \nin the making. The beginnings of an eventual efflorescence of Light,
    \nBliss, Immortality are glimpsed, however fleetingly,<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    World Design (III)<\/B>
    \n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAnd
    \nwhen the ambiguous crowded parts have met
    The many-toned unity to
    \nwhich they moved,
    The Artist\u2019s joy shall laugh at reason\u2019s
    \nrules; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe innumerable elements
    \nthat are strewn about in their plethora in this world appear to be
    \nutterly different from each other, with no clear relations where they
    \nare not jarring. The human mind with its logical reason can only see
    \nand envisage a growing division, a disparate multitude. But
    \nnevertheless there is a concealed Intelligence behind the outward
    \nprocesses of Nature which steadily moves them towards a graded Unity
    \nin which all find their just and inevitable place.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nAnd when this impelled
    \naction reaches its destined result in the emergence of a living Unity
    \nof the Whole, creative Delight will have scored over the gloomy
    \nprognostications of human Reason.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    The End (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe
    \ndivine intention suddenly shall be seen,
    The end vindicate
    \nintuition\u2019s sure technique. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nIt is at the culminating
    \nstages that the Purpose of the Creation will come to be fully
    \ndemonstrated. All the long travail of Nature, so meandering in its
    \ncourse, so wasteful in its processes to the little mind of reason,
    \nwill prove to have been after all a guided movement led by the
    \nspontaneous operation of a Truth-Knowledge in its depths.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nThe movements of external
    \nNature conceal behind their uncertain and tentative workings the sure
    \nsteps of a Conscious Power that builds the Creation.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    The End (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nA
    \ngraph shall be of many meeting worlds,
    A cube and union crystal
    \nof the gods;
    A Mind shall think behind Nature\u2019s mindless mask,
    \n
    A conscious Vast fill the old dumb brute Space. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe pattern that shall
    \nemerge will be of a Oneness deployed manifold. The Many will recover
    \nthemselves in the One. The origin, the course and the goal will stand
    \nself-revealed to the Wise. Where now there is no overt operation of
    \nthe thinking mind, there will commence the action of a faultless
    \nMind; where now there is no evidence of the existence of
    \nconsciousness in large belts of material Nature, there will pulsate
    \neverywhere a consciousness that is infinite.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Soul<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThis
    \nfaint and fluid sketch of soul called man
    Shall stand out on the
    \nbackground of long Time
    A glowing epitome of eternity,
    A
    \nlittle point reveal the infinitudes. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nMan is neither the body nor
    \nthe life that activates it, nor even the mind that is encased in the
    \nliving body. He is truly the soul which holds together all these
    \ninstruments of experience and presides over them. The soul has not
    \nyet developed, not yet taken proper shape; it is still in a formative
    \nstage. When by experience over lives it grows sufficiently in stature
    \nand emerges into its true and full form, it will reveal itself in its
    \nreal nature: a concentrated projection of the Eternal in the field of
    \nTime, a formation of the Infinite.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nThe soul is an emanation of
    \nthe Divine, eternal and infinite, in a manifestation in terms of
    \nTimeSoul and Form. It may appear to be bound by these terms, but once
    \nit comes into its own, it reveals itself as timeless and infinite in
    \ncharacter.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Mystery that is the
    \nUniverse<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nA
    \nMystery\u2019s process is the universe. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe Universe is not a
    \ncreation that has been constructed once for all by some super-human
    \nAgency and governed by a Law or laws determinable by human Reason. It
    \nis a Movement, a changing process that cannot be truly fathomed by
    \nthe mind. Every moment new factors, new elements come into play and
    \nno law is absolute. Further, the Universe is not of one substance say
    \nof Matter. There are other strands in its texture\u2014the vital, the
    \nmental and still other subtler ones\u2014making it a complex Whole which
    \ndefies in its workings the rules of logic and reason. It is a Mystery
    \nthat slowly unfolds itself.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Anomalous Base<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAt
    \nfirst was laid a strange anomalous base,
    A void, a cipher of some
    \nsecret Whole,
    Where zero held infinity in its sum
    And All and
    \nNothing were a single term,
    An eternal negative, a matrix Nought:
    \n<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe beginnings of this
    \nuniverse are from a state in which life is not, sensation is not,
    \nconsciousness is not. It is a huge Negation of everything and yet out
    \nof it all has come to be. It is a zero, but not an empty zero. In its
    \nbosom lie all the conceivable potentialities. Out of this womb of
    \nNothing issues everything, out of non-existence comes existence.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nThus there is a
    \ncontradiction at the very base of this material Creation: a pervading
    \nNil holding the All in its secrecies.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Child<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nInto
    \nits forms the Child is ever born
    Who lives for ever in the vasts
    \nof God. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nFrom out of this matrix of
    \nNought, forms come into existence. But they are not mere shapes of
    \nsome Fancy which appear and disappear. Each form is a significant
    \nfiguration of the soul, a birth of the divine Consciousness that
    \ndwells within it. This entity that ensouls every form is an emanation
    \nof the Eternal and it lives and grows in this manifestation of the
    \nInfinite.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Matter<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nA
    \nslow reversal\u2019s movement then took place:
    A gas belched out
    \nfrom some invisible Fire,
    Of its dense rings were formed these
    \nmillion stars; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe downward movement of
    \nthe descent of the creative Spirit culminates with the plunge into
    \nutter Nescience. The progressive densification of consciousness
    \nreaches its acme in Inconscience. Thereafter starts the return
    \nmovement; Involution turns into Evolution. The concealed
    \nconcentration of consciousness presses upward and outward and the
    \nfirst formation of Matter takes place providing a stable base for the
    \nevolutionary movement in its working.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    God’s Tread<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nUpon
    \nearth\u2019s new-born soil God\u2019s tread was heard. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAnd once this stable base
    \nof Matter is organised and firm moulds for the emerging Spirit to
    \nhouse itself are ashaping, there is the first stir of consciousness
    \nall over the Earth. These vibrations of the manifesting Spirit take
    \nthe form of life-sensations which develop its sustained purposeful
    \nmovements in the progression of life.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Mind<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAcross
    \nthe thick smoke of earth\u2019s ignorance
    A Mind began to see and
    \nlook at forms<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nAnd
    \ngroped for knowledge in the nescient Night: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nIn the first conditions of
    \nInconscience when consciousness is still asleep, as it were, and even
    \nin the subsequent states of its gradual awakenings, the earth is
    \nenveloped by obscurity; there is a struggle for self-awareness and
    \nall-awareness amidst the dark shades of Ignorance which is a state of
    \npartial awareness seeking to be fully aware.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nIn the pervading Night of
    \nabsence of consciousness, awareness slowly awakes, strives to come
    \ninto its own and develop into a mind which begins to cognise and
    \nextend its field of knowing.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Force<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nCaught
    \nin a blind stone-grip Force worked its plan
    And made in sleep
    \nthis huge mechanical world, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe Consciousness that is
    \nat first concealed and gradually awakens is not simply an awareness.
    \nIt has and is itself a Power. It has an inalienable Force which
    \neffectuates what it is charged with by the perceiving element. Such a
    \nForce is embedded in the material Creation and it works under the
    \ncover of the inconscience of Matter to build and shape the world in
    \nthe image of the Idea impelling it from behind. Only this Force is
    \nnot able to function in freedom; for it is constricted in the hard
    \nand dense obscurity of Matter which is its first field.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Object<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThat
    \nMatter might grow conscious of its soul
    And like a busy midwife
    \nthe life-power
    Deliver the zero carrier of the All. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAnd this is the objective
    \nof the whole working. The Force\u2014the evolutionary Force\u2014labours
    \nincessantly, from every point, in order that Matter which is at first
    \ninconscient, utterly unaware, may slowly awake to awareness,
    \ngradually become conscious of the divine Spirit that ensouls it. And
    \nin this labour, the Life-power\u2014the Nature-Force formulated as the
    \nEnergy of Life\u2014takes a leading part: it vivifies all the forms of
    \nMatter and as it builds itself in them, it exerts a pressure on the
    \nconcealed elements to emerge into manifestation.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nNescient Matter is acted
    \nupon by the Life-force to deliver the truths enwombed in it: the
    \ninlaid consciousness evolves in multiple forms and the material
    \ngradually becomes aware of the divine Spirit at its core.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nSo is the All that is the
    \nmultitudinous Universe manifested from the potent Zero that is the
    \nmaterial Inconscient.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Grace<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nBecause
    \neternal eyes turned on earth\u2019s gulfs
    The lucent clarity of a
    \npure regard
    And saw a shadow of the Unknowable
    Mirrored in
    \nthe Inconscient\u2019s boundless sleep,
    Creation\u2019s search for self
    \nbegan its stir. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThere was a stage in the
    \ncourse of the devolution of the Spirit when the creative
    \nConsciousness completely lost itself in the trance of Involution. All
    \nwas utter Nescience, a total Night. It was then that the Supreme
    \nDivinity directed its gaze at the bottomless pit in which the entire
    \nMovement had fallen and sent a Ray of its Light, its saviour Grace to
    \nreclaim the lost spirit. And it is due to the presence and action of
    \nthis Grace that things revived, awareness broke out in the stirrings
    \nof consciousness and the return journey commenced. The quest of
    \nthings for their self started.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Divine Idea<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nA
    \nspirit dreamed in the crude cosmic whirl,
    Mind flowed unknowing
    \nin the sap of life
    And Matter\u2019s breasts suckled the divine
    \nIdea. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nWith this awakening to its
    \nown existence, the soul’s memories began to appear. Amidst the
    \nspinning movements of the Universe, the soul went on dwelling upon
    \nits memories and their sequences; its element of perceiving and
    \nconceiving consciousness gradually suffused the life-movement that
    \nwas glow. Thus did the essence of the Real-Idea at the origin of
    \nthings stream into the stuff of the material Universe.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Miracle Born<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nA
    \nmiracle of the Absolute was born,
    Infinity put on a finite soul,
    \n
    All ocean lived within a wandering drop,
    A time-made body
    \nhoused the Illimitable. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAnd the miracle happened.
    \nThe Absolute Reality manifested itself in the realm of the relative
    \nand the determinate. What is infinite, boundless by nature, took a
    \nfinite form. But the finite was unique in that it contained in itself
    \nthe full Infinite; the finite was only a point of concentration of
    \nthe Infinite. So too the Eternal without bounds came to dwell in a
    \nform subject to the bounds of Time, governed by the processes of
    \nbirth and death.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nWhat was beyond the
    \nlimitations of Space and Time took shape in their dominion.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Purpose<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nTo
    \nlive this Mystery out our souls came here. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nTo make it possible for the
    \nInfinite, the boundless, to limit itself without forfeiting its
    \nnature of infinity; to make possible for the Eternal, the Timeless,
    \nto pour itself in the moments of Time without ceasing ever to be the
    \nreality eternal; this is the objective set for the embodied souls by
    \nthe Divinity that has released them into this manifestation. Each
    \nsoul has to realise and manifest the Infinite in its finite form, the
    \ntimeless Immortal in conditions of time-governed mortality.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Seer Within<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nA
    \nSeer within who knows the ordered plan
    Concealed behind our
    \nmomentary steps,
    Inspires our ascent to viewless heights
    As
    \nonce the abysmal leap to birth and life. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nMan as he is, living on the
    \nsuperficies of life, journeying from moment to moment in a pervading
    \nuniversal Ignorance, does not know the direction of his
    \nlife-movement; he is not even sure if there is a direction. But deep
    \nwithin him there is a seeing Intelligence that knows the purpose, the
    \ndestination of the life-journey, and that impels man to move forward,
    \nclimb upward in the evolutionary scheme of the Universe. This is the
    \nsame Wisdom, the Knowledge-Idea that originally precipitates the
    \ndescent of the Spirit into the abyss of Inconscience in order to work
    \nout the Divine Plan that bases this Creation. The Consciousness that
    \nhas impelled the Cosmic movement at its origin also guides it from
    \nwithin to the goal previsioned in its regard.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Traveller in Time
    \n(I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nHis
    \ncall had reached the Traveller in Time. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nApart
    \nin an unfathomed loneliness,
    He travelled in his mute and single
    \nstrength
    Bearing the burden of the world\u2019s desire. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAswapathy had awakened to
    \nthis impelling Knowledge within and was forging his way up the
    \nheights of the Spirit. He was not involved in the Nature-movements of
    \nthe terrestrial universe, though he embodied the keen aspiration of
    \nthe Earth for deliverance from the yoke of Ignorance, limitation and
    \nmortality into the freedom of Light, Infinity and Immortality. He
    \nlived in the profounds of his soul, and unaided, worked his way up
    \ndrawing upon its innate self-gathered power.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Traveller in Time
    \n(II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nA
    \nformless Stillness called, a nameless Light. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAbove
    \nhim was the white immobile Ray,
    Around him the eternal Silences. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAs Aswapathy freed himself
    \nfrom the movements of this world of Names and Forms in Ignorance and
    \nentered the purer realms of the Spirit, a vast, tremendous Silence
    \ngreeted him. Above the mobile is the immobile, looking over the k\u0219ara
    \nis the ak\u0219ara. All was still; there was no form, no movement. But it
    \nwas not a stillness of Nescience, darkness of cessation. There
    \ngleamed a great Light, scintillating in its purity, unmoving,
    \nunnameable.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \nHe had entered the silent,
    \nluminous vasts of the Eternal.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Traveller in Time
    \n(III)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nNo
    \nterm was fixed to the high-pitched attempt; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nIn the very nature of
    \nthings there is no limit to the ascension of the Soul. The Reality is
    \nInfinite and each horizon yields to another; from ‘peak to peak’ one
    \nascends and perceives the still " much to be done "\u2014observes
    \nthe ancient Seer in the Veda. However vast a world that is reached
    \nand explored, there is another above it drawing the adventurous Soul
    \nto its heights. It is an endless progression.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Traveller in Time
    \n(IV)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nWorld
    \nafter world disclosed its guarded powers,
    Heaven after heaven its
    \ndeep beatitudes,
    But still the invisible Magnet drew his soul. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nThe various Planes of
    \nExistence and the worlds on each Plane revealed themselves with the
    \ncharacteristic Powers and Principles of their organisation. He
    \nexperienced the various Bliss of the ascending series of the worlds,
    \neach world yielding its particular formulation of the essential
    \nDelight in Creation. But he did not and could not rest in any of
    \nthese realms. For his being was irresistably drawn to Something which
    \nwas not yet visible to his eye but was exercising palpably its spell
    \non him. He climbed on and on.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
    \n


    \n
    Traveller in Time
    \n(V)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nA
    \nfigure sole on Nature\u2019s giant stair,
    He mounted towards an
    \nindiscernible end
    On the bare summit of created things. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n


    \nAswapathy ascended along
    \nthe stair of the Cosmos, the graded levels of the Spirit in
    \nmanifestation, towards a goal that drew him upward, but itself
    \nremained indefinite. He moved towards an Absolute transcending all
    \ncreation. <\/FONT><\/FONT>
    \n<\/P>
    \n



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