Preparing for the Miraculous

eing human and the copernican principle 143Most important in this context is the Aurobindian viewof what one might call “the double movement” in evolution.The manifestation is the result of a plunge by the Divineinto his contrary, thereby creating the glorious scaleof the worlds, from the highest expressions of the divineConsciousness to the lowest, those of the Inconscient. Thuswas established “the Chain of Being:” in descending orderspirit, mind, the life forces, and matter. In its urge to regainthe divine Origin, the evolution is the slow re-conquest ofthe original and central Consciousness, ascending the existingscale step by step. The downward movement Sri Aurobindohas called “involution” and the upward movement“evolution.” To accede to a new, higher step in the evolutiona double movement is needed: the inner urge on theexisting level, obeying the evolutionary aim of re-conquest,and an answer from the corresponding higher step in theinvolution. What is here summarized in an abstract waymeans that, in order to realize the urge in Nature to exceedthe level of the primates, a response from the worlds of themind was needed, and not only an answer but a participation,an incarnation of the mental life in the life of the primates.The human is that being that has in him the mentalcharacteristics from the worlds of the mind incarnated inthe material unfolding of the terrestrial evolution.Human beings are the sons and daughters of MotherEarth. As such they carry in them the evolutionary gradationsof their formation – matter, the life forces, mind.Because these evolutionary gradations correspond to thecosmic gradations, the human being is rightly called a “microcosm.”The gradations are concretely expressed in whatyogic experience has called the “chakras,” lined up in thesubtle body along the backbone. Through the chakras, thehuman being is tuned to the universal forces, even thoughunaware of it. “All the time the universal forces are pouringinto him without his knowing it. He is aware only of