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momentum of the Movement of Wholeness to reverse its polarity. The "center" once more
is moved by the idea of a "circle" it would centralize. The incredibly condensed core of
subjective being, haunted by the memory of dimensionality, is not allowed by the
Movement of Wholeness to reach the condition of a dimensionless mathematical point.
After Midnight, the principle of Multiplicity once more waxes in strength; energy
gradually depotentializes itself. It operates in precosmic modes of mental activity. At this
stage, "mental activity" refers to the creation of archetypes — that is, to formulas of being,
systems (or "models") of organization that will become structural foundations for physical
matter. As the waxing principle of Multiplicity reaches a condition of equal strength with
the waning principle of Unity, the release of energy takes the form of the Creative Act. The
latter, focused through archetypal forms which have become fully defined by then and
which in their totality may be called "the Word" (or Logos), gives birth to an increasingly
objective, physical universe.
This objective and measurable universe — our universe — represents only one half of
the entire cycle of being. It is neither "the Whole" nor the whole of reality. Neither is it an
"illusion," nor is the other half of the cycle (the symbolic Night period) Reality with a
capital R. There can be neither one absolute subject nor an infinite multiplicity of absolute
("subjectivityless") objects spread through forever-extended space. Reality is the cyclic
interplay of subject and object. It is wholeness being experienced, partially or completely,
by conscious entities in which varying degrees of subjectivity interact with what we call a
body. In a deeper sense, reality is Wholeness experiencing Itself subjectively as "One" and
objectively as "Many" — simultaneously. 19
Because all beings possess a degree of consciousness within the Movement of
Wholeness, they might be compared to particles of water within a wave. Each particle
experiences the wave in its own way, according to its particular position, from its own
perspective. Human beings experience the Movement of Wholeness as the natural
succession of earthly days and nights and the yearly cycle of seasonal activity. The
polarities of the latter cycle manifest in the vegetable kingdom as the fully developed plant
(with stem, leaves, and flowers) and the seed. The condition of being a living organism
composed of billions of cells is only the objective and existential half of this cycle. But
"something" in a human being should be able to experience the entire "Cycle of Man" —
19 This interplay of subjectivity and objectivity within our concrete physical universe eventually manifests on
earth (and presumably on any planet presenting the necessary telluric conditions) as the individual person.
The root-symbol of self-conscious personhood is the statement "I am," in which the "I" stands for the
subjective centralizing principle and "am" refers to the state of objective existence as a living organism. In the
Bible, when the "Lord God" (YHVH) declares to Moses that His name is "I AM," he presents himself as the
archetype of individualized personhood. In Sanskrit, the "I" is implied in the divine name Ish (see the Isha
Upanishad, remarkably commented upon by Sri Aurobindo). The complete form of this name is given as
Ishvara, the Creative Being and "Lord" of the universe — the manifested aspect of Brahman. However, as we
shall see in Part Three, this "I" should not be confused with the ego, which is only a mechanism of adaptation
of the organism-as-a-whole to the physical, social, and psychic environment, within which a child has to
develop his or her conscious mind and to operate as effectively and comfortably as possible.
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