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A Page of Occult History AT the
beginning of creation, four individual formations-the first personalities-made
their appearance. There were: (1) a Being of Light or Consciousness, (2)
a Being of Truth or Reality, (3) a Being of Love or Ananda and (4) a Being of
Life. And the first law of creation was freedom of decision. These Beings were
manifestations in the free movement of the Divine; they themselves moved free,
according to their individualised
conscious will. They stood out, as if in bold relief, on the background of the
Divine Existence. For originally, although they
differentiated themselves from each other and from the Divine, yet they formed
a unified harmony and lived and moved and had their being as different members
of the same divine Body. At first they stood out, but still essentially
and apparently linked on to their fount and origin. Soon, however, they stood
out no longer on the Divine, but moved out of him, away and separate; they
sought to fulfil their individualised will and destiny. The Divine did not
impose its will or force these individualities to turn round: that would
frustrate the very purpose of creation. He allowed these independent beings to
enjoy their full independence, although they were born out of him and essential
part and parcel of his own being. They went abroad on a journey of adventure,
each carving out its own line of growth and fulfilment. The first fruit, the
inevitable reaction of freedom was precisely, as is just said, a separation
from the Divine, each one encircled within its ego, limited and bound to its
own fund of potency: individualism means limitation. Now, once separated, the
connection with the source snapped, that is to say in the outward activity, in
dynamic movement or becoming (not in essential being), the Four Independents
lapsed
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conscious-ness to unconsciousness, Truth changed to Falsehood, Delight changed
to Pain and Suffering, and Life changed to Death. That is how the four undivine
principles, the Powers of the Undivine came to rule
and fashion the material creation. Into
the heart of this Darkness and Falsehood and Pain and Death, a seed was sown, a
grain that is to be the epitome and symbol of material creation and in and
through which the Divine will claim back all the elements gone astray, the
prodigal ones who will return to recognise and fulfil the Divine. That was
Earth. And the earth, in her turn, in her labour towards the Divine Fulfilment,
out of her bosom, threw up a being who would again symbolise and epitomise the earth and
material creation. That is However,
the Asuras came to think better of the game and consented to use their freedom
on the side of the Divine, for the fulfilment of the Divine; that is to say,
they agreed to conversion. Thus they took birth as or in human beings, so that
they may be in contact with the human soul – Psyche – which is the only door or
passage to the Divine in this material world. But the matter was not easy; the
process was not straight. For, even agreeing to be converted, even basking in
the sunshine of the human psyche, these incorrigible Elders
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nature. They now wanted to work for the Divine Fulfilment in order to magnify
themselves thereby; they consented to serve the Divine in order to make the
Divine serve them, utilise the Divine End for their own purposes. They wished
to see the new creation after their own heart's desire. That
is how things have become difficult upon earth and are delaying the ultimate
consummation which, however, is sure to come about when the wheel of Time or
Fate has turned full circle.
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