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theodicy: “nature does not make mistakes” 225were essentially the very [divine] principles of these things.Besides, they had full freedom of choice, for the creationwas to be Freedom itself ... As soon as they set to work – theyhad their own idea of how it had to be done – being totallyfree, they chose to do it independently. Instead of taking theattitude of servant and instrument ... they took the attitudeof the master [of the Ego], and this mistake – as I may callit – was the first cause, the essential cause of all the disorderin the universe. As soon as there was separation – for this isthe essential cause, separation – as soon as there was separationbetween the Supreme and what had been emanated,Consciousness turned into inconscience, Light into darkness,Love into hatred, Bliss into suffering, Life into deathand Truth into falsehood. And they proceeded with theircreations independently, in separation and disorder. ...“The creative Force [i.e. the Great Mother] which hademanated these four Beings, essentially for the creation ofthe world, saw what was happening, and turning to the Supremeshe prayed for a remedy and a cure of the evil thathad been done. Then she was given the command to precipitateher Consciousness into this inconscience, her Loveinto this suffering, and her Truth into this falsehood. Anda greater consciousness, a more total love, a more perfecttruth than what had been emanated at first, plunged, so tosay, into the horror of Matter in order to awaken in it Consciousness,Love and Truth, and to begin the movement ofredemption, which was to bring the material universe backto its supreme origin. And this is my story.” 25This is the wording of one version of the Mother’s story,which she has told or referred to on other occasions also. Itis noteworthy that it was the Great Mother’s second interventionwhich created the possibility of the manifestation25 The Mother: Entretiens 1957-58, pp. 235-236.