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waxing power of Unity. Any individual in whom the battle is lost finds himself or herself
sliding into a dark abyss where great pride, anger, and lust gradually disconnect his or her
struggling center of consciousness and will from the rest of the tide of all-human evolution
and unification. The eventual end is the utter repudiation of the power of love and of any
divine manifestation, and after ages of preying upon weak psyches in an attempt to regain
ever-waning energies, a state of nearly absolute isolation.
This end — the end of what is traditionally called the "black" path because it is rooted
in a negative response to the "light" of the Godhead — constitutes a state of total failure of
human evolution. Yet it, too, represents a state of nearly absolute unity — the unity of a
center without a circle, thus without substance and consciousness. Such a state is the
opposite of the all-inclusive oneness of the Godhead state, which is an utterly condensed
condition of nearly total unification of all the substance, power, and consciousness of a
vast universal cycle of being. The state of nearly absolute darkness is one of nearly
absolute indifference, because where there is no longer energy and substance, even hatred
or conscious denial can no longer exist. It is the state of nearly absolute materiality, the
ultimate of decay. Yet it is only nearly absolute, just as the Godhead is only a nearly
absolute condition of all-encompassing oneness of being; for any absolute, by definition,
denies the possibility of any relative state ever existing.
Even in the deepest darkness of "pure" matter and seemingly total indifference to
being, an immensely dim longing for substantial existence must be and is present. Without
it, there could be no reaction to the release of creative power at the symbolic Sunrise of a
new cycle. This creative release has, however, repeatedly to "churn" the almost totally
indifferent matter of the space it encompasses, because this matter initially almost totally
resists the rhythmic movement of the creative energy of the divine Builders of the nascent
cosmos. This need for constantly repetitive, rhythmic activity is reflected in the magic
rituals of primitive societies; it also is apparent in the methods of modern commercial and
political advertising and even in today's "meditation" or "minimal" music.
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