THE GOD-MAN The Life, Journeys and Work of Meher Baba with an ...

420 THE GOD-MANthought of as equivalent to a human whim or desire but as an inexplicable spontaneous 'act' in infinitude,impossible to describe for it was beginningless and has no ending. (vi) In the act of contraction or creationGod subj ects himself to evolution in the soul and body of Nature in all its forms and to involution ofconsciousness in human nature. (vii) The states, worlds and planes overlap and interpenetrate, for these aretimeless and simultaneous, not to be separated except in rational thought. 1 (viii) The description of theevolutionary process is not a scientific outline of evolution (which would be quite different), but anindication of the evolution of consciousness in its main physical stages, pre-human and human. (ix) It is verynecessary to bear in mind that in the highest as in the lowest forms of life there is 'transcendence'. Thus thecosmology is not to be dismissed as 'pantheistic'. There is no limit to God in Baba's teaching, so thattranscendence is of its essence.To attempt to reconcile what is said above with present day astronomical and geo-physical theories, orwith biology or any of the physical sciences, or with anthropology or the study of psychology, would be ofgreat interest, possible only when it be remembered that the point of view from which Baba's cosmology ispresented and that of science are not the same: one is from within, the other from without; one is intuitive,the other mathematical; one is knowledge of Being the other of Existence. 2 When Baba speaks of the 'initialurge' from, which came 'The most finite point' of creation, the beginning of the evolutionary process, we maybe reminded of the theory of Professor Martin Ryle that creation started 10,000 million years ago with astupendous explosion, which has been flying outwards ever since, in which our own galaxy, the Milky Way,is a tiny fragment. But Baba also says that everything is simultaneous and 'is' as it ever was, which is notunlike the opposite theory of Professor Fred Hoyle that creation is continuous and that everything is as italways has been and always will be, that as galaxies recede their place is always reoccupied, the creation ofnew matter out of the nothingness being infinite.The cosmology is really 'cosmic' in the sense that it embraces the entire creation, so that the evolutionaryprocesses are not limited to this earth. Baba has said little about this, but at the meeting in November 1962 atwhich I was present, reported in the first part of this book, he said that on this earth there was the mostadvanced development1 To suppose oneself to be on a particular plane or to discuss on what planes other persons may be is withoutmeaning.2 We are reminded of St Thomas Aquinas's remark that' An error concerning the Creation ends as falsethinking about God. '