Preparing for the Miraculous

the kalki avatar 243inconscience, her Love into this suffering, and her Truthinto this falsehood. And a greater consciousness, a more totallove, a more perfect truth than what had been emanatedat first, plunged, so to say, into the horror of Matter in orderto awaken in it Consciousness, Love and Truth, and to beginthe movement of redemption, which was to bring thematerial universe back to its supreme origin.” 23The “movement of redemption” is none other thanwhat we call “evolution,” the slow upward climb on theladder established as the manifestation of the Divine, andwhich Sri Aurobindo called “involution.” What in presentdayscience and common thought is seen as an exclusivelymaterial process, is by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother put inits complete, spiritual context. Thanks to them humanity isbecoming aware of what is really at stake in the universe:the regaining of the divinity which was at the beginningand which will be at the end – the divine “adventure of consciousnessand joy.”During one of her occult explorations with Théon atTlemcen, the Mother saw in a cave deep under water a recliningdivine figure. “In fact, this is the origin of all Avatars.He is, so to say, the first universal Avatar who, gradually,has assumed more and more conscious bodies and finallymanifested in a kind of recognized line of Beings who havedescended directly from the Supreme to perfect this workof preparing the universe so that, through a conscious progression,it may become ready to receive and manifest thesupramental Light in its entirety.” 24 In other words, the divinefigure which the Mother saw at the base of the materialuniverse was a personification of the divine Love makingthe upward climb possible, and to this end incarnating in23 The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-1958, p. 208.24 The Mother’s Agenda, 1961, p. 417.