Preparing for the Miraculous

12 eleven talksThis superficial or exoteric meaning has led to themis understandings which rendered Gnosticism suspect,not unintentionally. Yet, names of Man and Woman orHusband and Wife for the absolute Being, who is the creator,and his Knowledge or Power, who is the creatrix, arecommon to most high religions. In Hinduism, for instance,they are Purusha and Prakriti or Ishvara and Shakti. The principleof the universal manifestation is then their Son, thetrue and perfect Anthropos or Adamas, divine as his parentsare, from whom all things originate, and who is seenas “an incorruptible and endless light.” This “pre-exist entman” was none other than the archetypal man perceivedby the Mother, or the cosmic Purusha mentioned by SriAurobindo. As the light not darkened by matter but at itsorigin, he is what Sri Aurobindo has called the Supermindor archetypal Superman.KabbalahOne of the biblical expressions that have entered intothe common language is that “man is created in the image ofGod.” The interpretation of this saying given in the spiritualand occult traditions rather differs from the way it is commonlyunderstood. For the biblical book of Genesis tells oftwo ways in which Adam was created. In the one he was atfirst alone, and God gave him a mate to lighten his solitude;in the other God created Eve from one of Adam’s ribs. Thelatter version would mean that Adam was man-woman, potentiallyandrogynous, and that the separation of the sexesresulted from an operation upon Adam’s bisexual body.This becomes meaningful if one knows that the divinePurusha, the Supramental Being at the origin of creation, isthe gnostic Adam who is not bi-sexual but a-sexual. Sri Aurobindoand the Mother have stressed time and again thatthe supramental being is asexual, and that the sexes are a