Preparing for the Miraculous

4 eleven talksInconscient, was under different names known in the ancientwisdom traditions. “In every country, every tradition,the event has been presented in a special way, with differentlimitations, different details or particular features, but,truly speaking, the origin of all these stories is the same.” Itis the gnostic story, rediscovered and revived in the greatperiods of the history of humankind (as we shall see). Andwe remember that, at the beginning of the evolution as wellas at its end, there is a divine archetype determining thedevelopment of Life on Earth. 1Sri Aurobindo too has written about such archetype,which he called “the body of the creative Deity.” When consideringthe four varnas – brahmins, kshatriyas, vaishyas, andshudras – he mentions the Purushasukta of the Vedas “wherethe four orders are described as having sprung from thebody of the creative Deity, from his head, arms, thighs andfeet. To us,” he comments, “this is merely a poeti cal image.As if this were all, as if the men of those days would haveso profound a reverence for mere poetical figures like thisof the body of Brahma. ... We read always our mentalityinto that of these ancient forefathers and it is therefore thatwe can find in them nothing but imaginative barbarians. ...The image was to these seers a revelative symbol of the unrevealedand it was used because it could hint luminouslyto the mind what the precise intellectual word, apt only forlogical or practical thought or to express the physical andsuperficial, could not at all hope to manifest. To them thissymbol of the Creator’s body was more than an image, itexpressed a divine reality. Human society was for them anattempt to express in life the cosmic Purusha. ... Man andThe references to the works of Sri Aurobindo follow the online edition by theSri Aurobindo Ashram for the volumes of the Complete Works published thereuntil February 2011.1 See in L’Agenda de Mère the conversation of 7 November 1961.