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<p class="paracenter">THE SPIRAL UNIVERSE
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<p class="para">Evolution does not proceed in a straight line, but in a spiral. That is 
to say, it is not a constant progress in one direction, but consists of 
progression, regression and an ultimate progression. The spiral movement means 
that all things must enter into the phenomenon of evolution, so that it is not 
one thing only that progresses and others remain behind but that all move 
forward—all move forward but at different speeds and also from different 
starting-points. And they move not straight as the crow flies, but in a circle 
like the soaring eagle. When you concentrate upon one point of the circle, you 
will see relatively to it many others not advancing at all but receding and the 
point itself will seem at times to be going back towards a position already left 
behind. One goes back to pick up certain elements that have not been included in 
the progress, not properly dealt with. It happens usually that when you progress 
in one thing, you forget another; so you have to turn back and take up the 
neglected element. Thus you have to go round and round, as it were, until you 
include the totality of your being, even embrace the totality of the universe. 
When you have, however, gathered the bypassed factor and come back to the 
original position from where you seemed to have
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<p class="para">regressed, you find that you are 
not exactly at the same point but at a corresponding point on a higher plane. 
That forms a spiral, not merely a circle.
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<p class="para"> There are, in the universe, an 
infinite number of points moving, each forming a spiral; so there are an 
infinite number of spirals. And these spirals do not lie only side by side, but 
cross each other and thus give an aspect of contrariness and contradictoriness. 
So if you wish to take a total view of the movement of universal progress, you 
will be somewhat puzzled. There are so many lines that advance and there are so 
many which recede at the same time. Some come into the light, others go into the 
background and none independent or self-sufficient. There is a sort of 
intermingling, even coordination.
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<p class="para"> The universe can thus be 
conceived as a globe consisting of an infinite number of intersecting spirals. 
One can give to each spiral a different colour, each representing one aspect of 
nature's movement. A model globe of this kind may perhaps be constructed. A 
section only of the curve of a spiral is on the outside, the rest is within the 
globe and can be seen because of its special colour, provided we consider the 
globe as something transparent. It is these multiple sections outside that form 
the surface of the globe. The inside is of course full of spirals, excepting 
that section of a spiral which is outside. And yet though crossing and 
recrossing they do not form an opaque mass. One can see through and follow the 
brilliant lines of various colours. That is
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<p class="para">how I see it. You can try to make 
a geometrical figure of it, if possible.
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<p class="para"> Nature has a plan of its own. It 
is not like the coherent rational plan of man. Nature's plan is made of an 
aspiration, a decision and a goal. But the way is quite fantastic, so it appears 
to man. Nature seems to move from moment to moment, under the stress of the 
occasion; there are advances, withdrawals, trials, contradictions, demolitions 
of things, laborious building up, and again throwing down. It is a complete 
chaos. She begins a thing, leaves it half done, takes up another, rejects one 
thing altogether, begins anew something left off, makes, remakes, unmakes, 
separates, mixes up. She follows a million lines of advance at the same time but 
not from the same point and each with its own speed and rhythm. There is such a 
tangle that seems to make no sense. Still there is a plan, she pursues an object 
which seems to be very clear to her, although veiled to the human eye. The 
spiral globe I spoke of was meant to give some idea of this complex unity in 
Nature's plan.
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<p class="para"> You can bring in a better order, 
with less waste and more efficiency a more conscious organisation. But for that 
man must change his own inner organisation first. In his own consciousness and 
being he must bring out a new order, a new cosmos.
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