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Omniscience, Beneficence, Charity, Perfection, Plenitude of Being, Permanence, Destroyer,
Redeemer, and so on). 29
Each of these spiritual Qualities will seek concrete manifestation during the period of
the new universe — or in a more restricted sense (as the universal Whole is a hierarchy of
subwholes, sub-subwholes, and soon) during a planetary cycle in which some kind of
"humanity" develops and seeks Illumination. After the symbolic Noon of this cycle, the
evolution of humanity will be essentially an attempt to establish a permanent link between
each of these Qualities and corresponding lines of development of human beings in
concrete physical organisms.
At first this link is only generic and collective. Each racial line of human development
and each culture — each originally related to a particular continent and region of the
biosphere — is linked with a particular spiritual Quality (Ray and sub-Ray). The Quality is
"projected upon," or reflected especially clearly by, one or more prototypal beings later
worshipped or revered as the "great ancestor" of the race, tribe, or nation, for even modern
nations are not without revered "Fathers" and heroes having embodied a highly valued
way of life under difficult conditions. Such prototypal personages become at least symbols
of a human collectivity's rootedness in a past which is glorified and idealized long after it
actually has taken place. At least in terms of the salient features of their characters and
deeds, they can be considered Avatars for the collectivity for which they represent a
particular quality of being (or a small group of such qualities).
Collective avatarhood can become individualized avatarhood once the process of
individualization has been successfully undergone, once a person has freed himself or
herself from bondage to the set patterns of family and culture and has achieved a radical
independence from the collective power of society and at least a degree of authentic
spiritual autonomy. When this happens, a definite linking of a particular spiritual Quality
and an individual person occurs. I have referred to this in previous writings as a "one-toone
relationship" between a spiritual entity (or Quality) and a living human being. 30 The
process of establishing such a one-to-one relationship may have been attempted and
partially or temporarily achieved during a succession of human lives — a process which
we shall examine in Chapter II when we study the complex and usually misunderstood
concept of "reincarnation." For now let us say only that the ultimate goal of such a process
29 In Occult terminology, the creative God often is considered one "Ray" of Light which differentiates into
three basic Rays, which in turn differentiate into a multiplicity of colors and shades. Or the creative power
might be considered as a mysterious, physically inaudible because mainly subjective Sound (nada or Aum)
which has a quasi-infinite number of overtones, or rather of undertones, as the creative Tone operates in a
"descending" mode. The energy of this creative Tone (also called Fohat) compels the total failures to break
away from the condition of total indifference to relationship and existence. It whirls these utterly separate,
static, almost dimensionless points of being into immense whorls of cosmic protomatter — the first stage of
existence assumed by the failures that in their nearly total separateness had become the dark roots of matter,
pure chaos.
30 See The Planetarization of Consciousness, Part Two, Chapter 7, "Soul-Field, Mind, and Reincarnation."
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