Preparing for the Miraculous

226 eleven talksto return to its Origin instead of having to remain foreverseparated from it. The divine Love which she poured intoit would be incarnated in the progressive succession of theAvatars enabling and supporting the evolution. This Lovewould also create the presence of the soul, the divine Self,in the manifestation. Hidden in the lower evolution, itwould become consciously active in the human being, and,once fully developed, it will give shape to the species of thefuture, the spiritual superman.When the plunge happened into the Darkness and Inconscienceof the separation, which the Mother said was “anaccident,” “immediately something else sprang forth formthe Source which probably would not have manifested ifthis accident had not taken place. If Delight had remainedDelight, conceived as Delight, and everything [of the manifestation]had come about in Delight and Union instead of indivision, there would never have been any need for the divineConsciousness to plunge into the inconscience as Love.” 26This is the justification of our evolutionary universe.The four great beings, cause and basis of the manifestation,were the Lords of Falsehood, Ignorance (or Inconscience),Suffering, and Death. Through them the Divineplunged into its opposite, for reasons called his Lila in theHindu tradition, which also means that they were fundamentallyknown to himself alone. (As we have seen in theprevious section, they are still unknowable to humanity onits evolutionary pilgrimage.)Sri Aurobindo mentions them in his sonnet “The IronDictators:”I looked for Thee alone, but met my glanceThe iron dreadful Four who rule our breath,26 The Mother: Entretiens 1955, p. 478.