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The Symbolic Ignorance How can
there be dark spots in the light of the full consciousness (the Mother's
consciousness)? The darkness is only relative and depends upon the degree or
status of conscious-ness. At the outset, on lower and narrower ranges, the
light is dim and hedged in: it is surrounded by a much greater and denser area
of darkness. As the consciousness grows, that is to say, manifests itself, as
it rises and widens, the obscurity too recedes more and more and slowly fades
away. This consciousness is not personal, but something impersonal. In other
words, it holds within itself the universe including especially the earth. And
earth is a dark object; it is made of ignorance and unconsciousness. The light
envelops it and only gradually penetrates and transforms it. The Mother's
consciousness is thus the representative consciousness; it represents all that
is yet unconscious and striving secretly without knowing towards consciousness;
it is also at the same time the light itself that acts and transforms. The
divine consciousness embodied acting upon itself thus symbolises and embodies its action upon
what would be viewed as others.
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