The
Unfolding of Consciousness
One of those pregnant
and significant ideas which Theosophy scatters so lavishly around
is this that the same scale is repeated over and over again, the
same succession of events in larger or smaller cycles. If you understand
one cycle, you understand the whole. The same laws by which a solar
system is builded go to the building up of the system of man. The
laws by which the Self unfolds his powers in the universe, from
the fire-mist up to the LOGOS, are the same laws of consciousness
which repeat themselves in the universe of man. If you understand
them in the one, you can equally understand them in the other. Grasp
them in the small, and the large is revealed to you. Grasp them
in the large, and the small becomes intelligible to you.
The great unfolding from
the stone to the God goes on through millions of years, through
aeons of time. But the long unfolding that takes place in the universe,
takes place in a shorter time-cycle within the limit of humanity,
and this in a cycle so brief that it seems as nothing beside the
longer one. Within a still briefer cycle a similar unfolding takes
place in the individualÄ rapidly, swiftly, with all the force
of its past behind it. These forces that manifest and unveil themselves
in evolution are cumulative in their power. Embodied in the stone,
in the mineral world, they grow and put out a little more of strength,
and in the mineral world accomplish their unfolding. Then they become
too strong for the mineral, and press on into the vegetable world.
There they unfold more and more of their divinity, until they become
too mighty for the vegetable, and become animal.
Expanding within and
gaining experiences from the animal, they again overflow the limits
of the animal, and appear as the human. In the human being they
still grow and accumulate with ever-increasing force, and exert
greater pressure against the barrier; and then out of the human,
they press into the super-human. This last process of evolution
is called "Yoga."
Coming to the individual,
the man of our own globe has behind him his long evolution in other
chains than ursÄthis same evolution through mineral to vegetable,
through vegetable to animal, through animal to man, and then from
our last dwelling-place in the lunar orb on to this terrene globe
that we call the earth. Our evolution here has all the force of
the last evolution in it, and hence, when we come to this shortest
cycle of evolution which
is called Yoga, the man has behind him the whole of the forces accumulated
in his human evolution, and it is the accumulation of these forces
which enables him to make the passage so rapidly. We must connect
our Yoga with the evolution of consciousness everywhere, else we
shall not understand it at all; for the laws of evolution of consciousness
in a universe are exactly the same as the laws of Yoga, and the
principles whereby onsciousness unfolds itself in the great evolution
of humanity are the same principles that we take in Yoga and deliberately
apply to the more rapid unfolding of our own consciousness. So that
Yoga, when it is definitely begun, is not a new thing, as some people
imagine.
The whole evolution is
one in its essence. The succession is the same, the sequences identical.
Whether you are thinking of the unfolding of consciousness in the
universe, or in the human race, or in the individual, you can study
the laws of the whole, and in Yoga you learn to apply those same
laws to your own consciousness rationally and definitely. All the
laws are one, however different in their stage of manifestation.
If you look at Yoga in
this light, then this Yoga, which seemed so alien and so far off,
will begin to wear a familiar face, and come to you in a garb not
wholly strange. As you study the unfolding of consciousness, and
the corresponding evolution of form, it will not seem so strange
that from man you should pass on to superman, transcending the barrier
of humanity, and finding yourself in the region where divinity becomes
more manifest.
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