Preparing for the Miraculous

6 eleven talksthe French Revolution, which was almost immediately followedby the rise of the proletariat (shudras) and their massmovements of socialism and communism.Thus we may conclude that, according to Sri Auro bindoand the Mother, and the traditions they refer to, there is thepresence of a divine archetype resembling the human formabove or behind the evolution. The knowledge of this formhas been and still is common wisdom in East and West. Itis this form – here understood in the philosophical Platonicsense as “idea” – which we find in the course of the evolutionof life on Earth gradually express ed in the shape of thehuman being. This form is also the inspiration of the knowledgeat the base of the occult schemata of the world, e.g. thechakras, the chain of being, the astrological structure of thehuman being, and the sephiroth in the Kabbalah.Primordial ManThe pure spiritual knowledge is the great treasureheed fully kept in India, and which she is now communicatingto the world for its further evolution. Yet this knowledge,though often truncated, has also been a part of othergreat wisdom traditions through the ages.“The ideas of the Upanishads,” writes Sri Aurobindo,“can be rediscovered in much of the thought of Pythagorasand Plato and form the profounder part of Neoplatonismand Gnosticism with all their considerable consequencesto the philosophical thinking of the West.” In his remarkableseries of articles on the pre-Socratic sage Heraclitus,he writes for instance that in one of Heraclitus’ sayings“we are reminded of the Vedic Fire which is hymned as theupbuilder of the worlds, the secret Immortal in men andthings, the periphery of the gods. ... We are reminded of theVedic thunderbolt, that electric Fire, of the Sun who is the