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"overmind," beyond which he envisions a "supermind" referring to the planetary dharma
(or supreme "Truth") of humanity.
From such a point of view, the planetary function of humanity as a whole is to develop
a network of integrated mental consciousness progressively filling the noosphere with the
harvest of significant and revealing experiences left by every culture. Archetypally, Man is
the being in charge of giving meaning to every activity within the planetary organism —
meaning in relation to the whole; meaning which includes much more than sense-data and
rationalistic interpretations. Ultimately, this meaning includes a full awareness of the
original archetype structuring the various activities within the entire planet — and much
more than the archetypal structure. The "omega-state" is not only a perfect realization of
the "alpha-creative" release. At least in principle, it also includes a plus factor which is
essentially unpredictable — the spiritual harvest of meaning produced by the magic of
relatedness, by the unceasing interaction between all existents within the planetary field.
The factor of interrelatedness should never be ignored. It is ignored if one believes that
a single individual alone can reach a state of being identical to the state which the
Communion of co-conscious and co-active perfected human beings (the Pleroma) can
attain at the close of a great planetary cycle. Inasmuch as a self-conscious individual
human being is a whole, he or she can experience Wholeness and be "illumined" or
"initiated" in terms of the "divine Marriage" mentioned above. But the illumination an
individual can receive is always colored by the particularity of the spiritual Quality (the
Letter of the creative Word) which constitutes his or her spiritual identity. At the level of
any particular being, light is colored; or perhaps we should speak of luminescence rather
than light. A red radiation may be extremely intense, but it docs not contain the entire
spectrum of solar light human beings consider "white."
Modern students of esoteric philosophy (though evidently it is no longer "esoteric"!)
speak of seven "cosmic Rays" emanating from the originating release of divine power; and
such a sevenfold differentiation of a primordial creative release seems almost universally
accepted by esoteric philosophies (though in some instances only five streams of power
are mentioned publicly). If the one creative release beginning the cycle divides at once into
seven streams of power, it is logical to expect that at the close of the cycle the complex
interrelatedness of seven groups of perfected human beings is needed to produce the
synthesis of meanings out of which the one white Light would emerge as a supreme final
realization, balancing, as it were, the primordial unity of the creative Word.
The problem implied in the preceding paragraphs is encountered at every level of
existence, because at every level an organized system — an existent — is both a whole and
a participant in the field of activity (and also in the consciousness) of a greater, more
encompassing whole. Every whole is a manifestation of Wholeness, but only at the level at
which it actually operates. The greater whole in which its activity takes place contains
many other existential units that are also wholes, all of which perform only limited
functions in the organism of the greater whole. As every whole is therefore at the same
time whole and part, it may identify itself either with its own wholeness — with its own
sense of being a complete system — or with its "partness," that is, with the function it
performs not only in but also for the greater whole.
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