Preparing for the Miraculous

2 eleven talksmade Truth turn into falsehood, Light into darkness andignorance, Bliss into suffering, and Life into death.“The Creative Power implored the Supreme Origin,ask ing for a special intervention which could save thiscor rupt ed universe; and in reply to this prayer there wasemanated from the Supreme Origin a special Entity of loveand consciousness, who cast himself directly into the mostinconscient matter to begin there the work of awakening. Inthe old narratives this Being is described as stretched out ina deep sleep at the bottom of a very dark cave.”This very old story about an accident on the thresholdof creation, for which the Great Mother was held responsible,is also the foundation story of all schools of Gnosticism;according to the gnostic myths, souls (sparks of the Divine)get lost in the world of the Ignorance and can only be savedby a redeemer who reminds them of their origin. In theBible, Satan (originally the Angel of Light) revolts againstGod and becomes the devil. The Mother herself has morethan once told the same story in its complete form: the fourattributes of the Divine – truth, light, life and bliss – in theirboundless egoistic pride deemed themselves equal to bethe very Divine and therefore turned into the great Asuras:the Lords of Falsehood, Darkness, Suffering and Death.(In one of his sonnets Sri Aurobindo called them “the ironDictators”. They are also known as the Four Horsemen ofthe Apocalypse.)The “special Entity,” emanated by the Divine to savethe world, is described in the narratives of the old traditions“as stretched out in a deep sleep at the bottom of avery dark cave, and in his sleep prismatic rays of light irradiatefrom him and gradually penetrate in all the elementsof the Inconscient.” Without this direct divine permeationthe world of Ignorance and Darkness could never haveevolved back towards its Origin.