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which has much the same philosophical meaning at the level of abstract principles)
implies either time or an absolute dualism denied by the very fact of thinking about it; for
the thinker evidently is neither God nor chaos but part of a movement of relatedness
between these opposites. This dynamic process of relationship is the Movement of
Wholeness.
Every whole in the universe, be it an atom, a galaxy, or a human being, is a phase of
that movement. When a human being enters the Path, the movement accelerates. It takes
the form of a ritual because every movement, every act, becomes symbolic. It becomes a
mythos which must be lived by every person on the Path. It is a walk, a series of falls and
recoveries. Each individual must tread it alone, yet his or her whole culture also is
involved, for the culture has molded the individual's mind. The Pleroma, too, is involved,
because the future includes the past whence the Pleroma has emerged through dynamic
but always uncertain and dangerous presents. Whoever does the walking must carry the
burden of time and causation, must experience the birthing of the future out of the womb
of the past through individualized nows. The individualization of time — of the meaning
a person gives to a series of events, once he or she has started on the Path of
transformation of the basic frames of reference to which these events are to be related — is
indeed an unrelenting necessity. So, at least, it must seem to the traveler on the Path.
Yet perhaps as one comes very close to the supreme moment of Illumination, this too
may seem to be an illusion produced by an unbalanced relation between Unity and
Multiplicity — between "I" and the universe. As the Gate of Silence is reached and the
opposite polarities of being are perfectly equilibrated for an instant, does not Wholeness
reveal itself as changelessly perfect and whole? Is it "for an instant" only? Are transitions
and rites of passage, from self-limiting levels to always more inclusive ones, never ending?
Is even the continuum of change the ultimate illusion? Or does the supreme realization
arise only when one totally accepts the fact that Motion is unceasing, that Wholeness is a
tidal movement of being; and that peace and fulfillment can come only to the
consciousness that has identified itself with that movement, whatever form its turning
points and reversals of polarity may take? For such a consciousness every moment sings
with a rapture of change and unceasing renewal.
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