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features. By now the biosphere is teeming with a multitude of lives in the throes of
conflicts, catastrophes, and cycles of disease and barrenness necessary to avoid a plethoric
crowding of entities feeding on one another. Then the Movement of Wholeness, having
allowed the principle of Multiplicity to dominate the earth, reverses its direction. The
archetype Man takes a more concrete form, gradually revealing its complex plenitude of
being through a series of Avatars.
In and through the series of planetary, racial, and cultural Avatars, and eventually
through personages with definite missions and illumined individuals nearing the
consummation of humanhood in the "divine Marriage," spirit acts within a human
framework. It seeks to integrate archetypal Qualities — Letters of the creative Word —
with generic human nature (which it slowly but progressively transforms), and with
cultures and social communities.
Also, whenever possible archetypes, are actualized in and through individualized
persons eager to experience attunement with their essential beingness, that is, with the
particular spiritual Quality it is their dharma to embody in everyday living, through everrenewed
acts of theophany (divine revelation of the spirit within).
Spirit therefore operates in the Movement of Wholeness as an integrative principle. In
my book The Planetarization of Consciousness, which was concerned mainly with the
Day period of the entire cycle of being, I strongly emphasized the concept of ONE as the
universal principle of integration — a catalytic agent whose "presence" is effective in
drawing together disparate elements at all levels of material, organic, and human
organization. I particularly stated that this word did not refer to "the One" or to a Supreme
Being, but to an impersonal integrative principle to which no particular form or identity
could be given. This integrative principle operates in the whole cycle of being in two basic
ways: as the Compassion radiating from the Godhead state at the symbolic Midnight —
and after Noon as the power seeking to integrate human organisms (in their successively
developed biological, cultural, psychic, intellectual, and individualized aspects) with
spiritual Qualities.
The latter gradually take more definite forms, first defining the dharmas of
sociocultural collectivities, then the dharmas of individualized human beings. (After the
Pleroma state is reached by illumined beings in whom the "divine Marriage" has occurred,
spirit acts in a more subjective way, but for the normal embodied consciousness today
such an action must remain a mystery. It may have something to do with the
repotentialization of energy at subtle levels of materiality and the intensification of what
will become divine Compassion in the Godhead state.)
Because spirit is the "power" (shakti) in and through which the principle of Unity
operates within the Movement of Wholeness, its action is most intense when this principle
reaches maximum strength; its intensity decreases when the principle of Multiplicity
waxes. Yet the drive toward an ever greater and more differentiated multitude of
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