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The Inevitability of Success and Failure - 2
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The two basic causes of failure
The deepest roots of failure are formed at the two great turning points of the Movement of
Wholeness — the symbolic Midnight (when the principle of Unity reaches its climax) and
the Noon-hour (when the principle of Multiplicity is nearly all-powerful). At these two
points, a reversal of the dynamic character and the duality of the motion must occur. The
ever-changing relationship between the principles of Unity and Multiplicity had become
either interiorized or exteriorized in and through forms. These forms have by then
acquired inertia, and inertia inevitably presents an obstacle to the necessary repolarization
and redirection of the motion. Whatever expresses or identifies itself with this inertia
generates the seeds of failure.
At the level of ethical judgment, failure manifests as the direct or indirect source of
"evil." But evil and failure are fundamentally the result of not taking the new evolutionary
step. The original sins are actually "sins of omission." What is not done when the dharma
demands that it should be done inevitably leads, sooner or later, to inherently destructive
acts, to "sins of commission." Individuals (or collectivities of individuals) who do not go
ahead with the Movement of Wholeness fall behind, to some extent blocking the path for
those who come after them; they may even induce a contagious movement of retreat.
Because two great moments of repolarization occur in the Movement, two kinds of
resistance are possible: resistance belonging to the Night hemicycle of subjective being and
resistance belonging to the Day hemicycle human consciousness interprets as the
objective, existential world. Metaphysicians and occultists thus have alluded to two basic
kinds of failure and evil; "cosmic evil" and "existential evil."
Cosmic evil is rooted in the subjective resistance of centers of consciousness who
refuse, as it were, to accept the crucial change at the symbolic Midnight, when the trend
toward what seems to be the possibility of absolute oneness must be reversed by the
outflow of Compassion calling for a new world dominated by the principle of Multiplicity.
The "resisters" are so powerfully drawn toward what seems to them the goal of absolute
oneness that they refuse to identify themselves with the Compassion of the Godhead state.
In Mahayana Buddhism these resisters are called Pratyeka Buddhas, Buddhas of spiritual
selfishness. The one-pointed, utterly concentrated will of these beings — the will to reach
Nirvana (the state of oneness) — makes it impossible for them to "remember" the failures
of the world in which they were able to reach a limited kind of Illumination — perhaps
even in some cases using human beings who had a tendency to fail as means to reach their
own spiritual goal.
Compassion in the Godhead state demands that all the failures, partial or total, of the
half-cycle that began with the advent of Natural Man be collectively remembered.
Condensed into an all-inclusive "memory," all the negative reactions to evolutionary
charge that had occurred during the human period of the cycle have to be faced. Out of
this confrontation total Compassion emerges. This gives rise to the subjective, supramental
Idea of a new universe in which all that partially or totally failed in the old universe is to
be given a "second chance" to reach perfect Illumination and the Pleroma condition of
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