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it produces at each have different functions in the cycle of being. In both cases the function
of mind is to give form to the energy of spirit; yet mind also can act in the service of the
forces that work against spirit.
Mind indeed is neutral. So is the principle of relatedness, as is Wholeness itself —
because forever unconcerned with Unity or Multiplicity as such. Wholeness is the perfect
though dynamic and ever-changing relatedness of all there is and can ever be. In
Wholeness form and movement stand in contrast, but not in conflict. Contrast means form;
and form, mind. Mind therefore is inherent in Wholeness; yet it acts in a different,
particularized manner in every form or category of forms.
During the period of the Movement of Wholeness between Midnight and Sunrise,
mind acts by giving a cosmic outline to the supreme release of divine Compassion — the
spirit radiating from the Godhead. This cosmic outline is the "Form" needed to make
divine compassion effectual and therefore to meet the need of the many types of failures of
the once human past. The "creative Hierarchies" at work between Midnight and Sunrise
operate as aspects of the divine Mind. They become increasingly defined and relatively
individualized as the principle of Multiplicity waxes. Yet they are held together as a divine
"Host" by the power of the still dominant principle of Unity, and the vast number of
archetypes they create are forms in (rather than of) the divine Mind.
These archetypal forms retain their power during the immensely long period of
evolution from Creation to the coming of what I have called Natural Man. They act, one
might say, as "guiding fields" for the development and activities of biological orders,
families, genera, and species — thus for the operation of "life," which (as we have seen) is a
new manifestation of the integrative activity of spirit acting upon a multitude of material
elements. In any particular life species, instinct results from the combination of the energy
of life intent upon perpetuating its specific rhythm and the persistent presence of the
archetypal form built by the divine Mind for a particular manifestation of life.
During the last part of the period between Sunrise and Noon, protohuman races may
be considered extreme manifestations of the dominance of the principle of Multiplicity,
because in them the power of archetypal forms is as weak as it can be. In Occult
cosmogonies they are called "mindless," not only because the truly human mind has not
yet appeared, but because their forms apparently were unsteady, indefinite, and often
altered by interracial mixtures.
At this Noon point in the cycle, the power of Unity is at its lowest ebb. It is reenergized
by the "descent" (or projection) of the archetype Man through, yet also in, the person of the
Avatar or series of Avatars. The Compassion radiating from the Godhead state vibrates
wherever beings of a new and truly human type appear on our planet. Because the balance
between the principles of Multiplicity and Unity is definitely altered after the symbolic
Noon, Wholeness assumes a new form of manifestation; a new mind begins to develop in
what has really become "humanity." Out of the operation of this human mind, cultures
take form. A culture is a complex form of mind "inspirited" by the energy released by the
Avatar at his death. (During the Avatar's life this energy was focused and "condensed" in a
potential mode in his total person.)
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