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been taken. This is the cyclic or polarity approach I am presenting. It is founded on the
realization of Wholeness, the realization that all opposites are inseparably included in
Wholeness. They are harmonized in Wholeness, not absolutely unified; for there can be
neither absolute Unity nor absolute Multiplicity in Wholeness. Yet because activity at any
particular time and place cannot be oriented in two opposite directions at the same time, it
must be polarized by an opposing trend effective at some other place or time.
Consciousness, however, always can be established in Wholeness.
Because human beings operate during the Noon-to-Sunset period in which the
principle of Unity rises, to act in tune with the Movement of Wholeness necessitates
working toward greater integration. But this activity need not ignore, abjure, or abhor the
power of the principle of Multiplicity. The realization of Wholeness can permeate the
consciousness of the acting individual, who then is liberated from emotional attachment to
the goal his or her actions serve. Action can be performed "in the Name of" Wholeness and
serve the purpose of the particular moment of the performance — a purpose which is
defined by the moment's and performance's place in the entire cycle of being.
In other words, because human beings exist during the phase of the entire cycle of
being when the rise of the principle of Unity is the fundamental issue — and thus the
necessity of its victory over the inertial power of the previously dominant principle of
Multiplicity — the essential function of humanity throughout its evolution is to be attuned
to and exteriorize in integrative acts the evolutionary trend toward an ever more inclusive
manifestation of the principle of Unity. The keynote of human history, therefore, should
be cooperation and harmonization. On the other hand, because the principle of
Multiplicity is still dominant and (now in a more introverted way) insists on
differentiation, a truly human form of cooperation and integration should correlate truly
autonomous units of consciousness. Such an autonomy requires the development of mind
as an individualized principle of formation. The principle of Multiplicity gives power to
the development of individuals; but this development of a consciousness of individual
selfhood should be bent in a centripetal direction by an increasingly conscious and
powerful allegiance to the rising trend toward Unity. Individuals must learn to act at the
service of a common purpose and to be inspired by an integrative power.
Individuals nevertheless are "free" not to align their centralized and individualized
energies — their wills. Their wills can resist the mounting trend toward the all-human
experience of wholeness that develops through ever more inclusive modes of organization
and co-active behavior. Their self-conscious egos and egocentric minds can cling to the
experiences they can have as separate persons. If human beings do this, they become
partial or total evolutionary failures.
In the next chapter I will discuss the problem of evolutionary failure. For now let us
say that the possibility for it exists the moment the power of the Godhead polarizes
Natural Man at the symbolic Noon. The powerful downpour of energy of quasi-absolute,
"supreme" Oneness objectivized in the experience of the Avatar state engenders an
equally supreme problem. A human being whose entire organism is flooded with that
feeling-experience of quasi-absolute Oneness cries out, "I am the Onel" This cry is so
powerful that most of those around him fall in awe and worship what they can relate to
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