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The Four Crucial Phases of the Cycle of Being - 5
From Midnight to Sunrise:
The activity of the "Builders of Archetypes"
In the Godhead state Wholeness assumes, as totally as possible, the subjective character of
all-inclusive oneness. All-inclusiveness, however, implies the inclusion in consciousness
of the failures of human evolution mentioned above. Many of these failures are almost
totally unconscious centers of circles so empty of contents that circumference and center
are indistinguishable. They do not "exist," but in some mysterious subjective way they
"inist" as the shadows of Wholeness in the "memory" of Pleroma beings who at any level
(planetary or cosmic) must include them, for these "failures" are as much a part of the
cycle as the "successes." This inclusion in subjective consciousness is what divine
Compassion means.
Such a compassion is not a "feeling" in the human sense of the term; it is the resonance
of a state of subjective being. It is nearly absolute Unity remembering Multiplicity, and
this remembrance renders absolute oneness impossible. It is Wholeness compelling an
almost totally subjective One to summon back to objective existence all that has failed,
totally or partially, during the whole Day before Midnight; for in the consciousness of this
One is condensed the total potency and the entire spiritual harvest of the experiences of
the cosmos approaching nearly perfect unity. It is Wholeness compelling the Movement to
radically alter its direction, to let the principle of Multiplicity rise to an eventual
supremacy once more at Noon. It is Midnight dreaming of this ineluctable Noon, and this
dream is a vision of a future universe that will answer the particular need of the failures of
the cycle-that-was — the need for a "second chance" to experience Wholeness in the
plenitude of concrete objective living, as participants in a new humanity on a material
planet.
The existence of such a humanity able to choose the meaning it will give to its
experience is still immensely remote. It can occur only after a workable form of living has
been built. This requires, not only the formation of archetypes and the transmutation of
potential into kinetic energy but also the arousal of the partial failures of the past from
their long "sleep" in states of unconscious or semiconscious subjectivity. Before this, the
inertia of the nearly absolute failures of the past cycle (symbolized in Genesis as "the dark
waters of space") must be overcome
During the period that follows the symbolic Midnight (the Godhead state), the energy
of the Movement of Wholeness that had been condensed in the state of nearly absolute
Unity must be, first, transmuted into active divine Compassion. Then the "dream" of the
Godhead must be defined gradually in terms of various levels of archetypes. This process
of formation is predominantly subjective because the principle of Unity is still dominant;
but the principle of Multiplicity is rising to power, and what is produced in the
subjectivity of the "divine Mind" becomes increasingly objective. The process — the
formation of archetypes — is hierarchical. Esoteric traditions and many theologies refer to
it as the establishment of a graded series of "creative Hierarchies." The more distant these
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