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<p class="paracenter">THE SYMBOLIC IGNORANCE
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<p class="para"> How can there be dark spots in 
the light of the full consciousness (the Mother's consciousness)? The darkness 
is only relative and depends upon the degree or status of consciousness. At the 
outset, on lower and narrower ranges, the light is dim and confined: it is 
surrounded by a much greater and denser area of darkness. As the consciousness 
grows, that is to say, manifests itself, as it rises and widens, the obscurity 
too recedes more and more and slowly fades away. This consciousness is not 
personal, but something impersonal. In other words, it holds within itself the 
universe including especially the earth. And earth is a dark object; it is made 
of ignorance and unconsciousness. The light envelops it and only gradually 
penetrates and transforms it. The Mother's consciousness is thus the 
representative consciousness; it represents all that is yet unconscious and 
striving secretly without knowing towards consciousness; it is also at the same 
time the light itself that acts and transforms. The divine consciousness 
embodied acting upon itself thus symbolises and embodies its action upon what 
would be viewed as others.
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