<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252">
<title>-002_Cycles of Creation.htm</title>
</head>
<div align="center">
	<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
	<td>
<p class="paracenter"><b><i>Series One </i></b>
</p>
<p class="paracenter"></p>
<p class="paracenter"><b>Section One </b>
</p>
<hr></p>
<p class="paracenter">I
</p>
<p class="paracenter"></p>
<p class="paracenter"><b>CYCLES OF CREATION</b></p>
<p class="paracenter"></p>
<p class="para"> The present cycle of creation has 
for its goal the advent of the Supermind, the coming of a supramental race of 
beings.
</p>
<br>
<p class="para"> The world, it seems, moves in 
cycles. There are periods of creation with a hiatus or a gap in between of 
dissolution. Present day science too speaks of the universe proceeding in 
pulsations, that is to say, alternate expansion and contraction. Indian 
mythology speaks of alternate 'Pralaya' and 'Srishti'. The Indian system speaks 
also of 'Maha-pralaya', utter dissolution or 'Yoga-nidra' of the Supreme. In 
other words, there are periods when the universe retires altogether into its 
origin and when it comes out it manifests itself in an entirely new way. In a 
given creation between two major dissolutions, 'Maha-pralaya', that is to say, 
in a major cycle, there are minor cycles (epicycles) marked by minor 
dissolutions, 'Khandapralaya'.
</p>
<br>
<p class="para"> The present major cycle aims, as 
I have said, at the manifestation of the Supermind and the installation of the 
supramental race. The cycle started, one does not know when, billions of years 
ago perhaps, but the principle of the creation seems to be clear enough. It has 
matter for its base, earth as its centre and man as its dynamic agent. For all 
we know there may be, there are other principles-and modalities of creation. One 
may well conceive of air,
</p>
<br><p class="pageno">Page-3</p>
<hr>
<p class="para">for example, as the basis of creation and some other heavenly 
body, an airy globe in a far-off galaxy, for example, being the basis of 
creation and an airy creature as the vehicle for the play based upon that 
principle. Even fire may be the basic principle of another creation and 
salamander-like beings its natural inhabitants. There may be quite other 
principles or modes of creation conceivable or inconceivable by the human mind. 
However, we speak now of the present terrestrial creation of which we human 
beings are representative participants.
</p>
<br>
<p class="para"> The present cycle, the great 
cycle that is to say, has, as I have said, for its ultimate motive and purpose 
the advent and reign of the Supermind. But this proceeds through stages, each 
stage forming a minor or lesser cycle. The stages of these cycles are the 
different degrees of what is called evolution. The evolution starts upon the 
basis of an apparently simple substance and goes on unfolding gradually an 
inherent complexity. As we know, the different cycles of evolution in the past 
were at the outset a purely material universe of inorganic elements, then came 
the cycle of organic combinations, then the manifestation of life and next the 
mind and at present the mind at its peak capacity, which means the advent of the 
strange creature that has a miraculous destiny to accomplish. And that is to 
bring forth out of him the achievement and fulfilment of the next cycle. For the 
mind is there to bring forth, to usher in the Supermind and man is there as the 
laboratory and the vanguard as well of the Supermind.
</p>
<br><p class="pageno">Page-4</p>
<hr>
<p class="para"> At the present time the human 
consciousness in general has been so prepared and its dwelling and playfield the 
earth-consciousness made ready to such a degree that it has been possible for 
the still secreted higher perfection to enter into the arena. The evolution, the 
growth has been a gradual expression and revelation of the light, the 
consciousness in a higher and higher degree of purity and potency through an 
encasement hard and resistant at first but gradually yielding to the impact of 
the higher status and even transforming itself so as to become its instrument 
and embodiment. We speak of the present situation, we are concerned with man and 
what he is to grow into or bring out of himself. Here also there seem to be 
stages or cycles of creation leading to the final achievement. The whole burden 
of the present endeavour is how to transcend, transform or modify the animalhood 
which is the basis of humanity even now and in and through which man is growing 
and seeking to manifest and incarnate his superior potencies. Man's supramental 
destiny means that he totally outgrows the animal, outgrows even his manhood in 
so far as it is merely human; for he has to incorporate the principle of the 
supramental which wholly transcends the mental.
</p>
<br>
<p class="para"> The first step in this momentous 
movement has been taken, the first act achieved, for the supramental is now here 
established in the earth's atmosphere and is already percolating into general 
human consciousness. It is no longer a far-off object residing away in its own 
home, its higher transcendent status, but a concrete reality as
</p>
<br><p class="pageno">Page-5</p>
<hr>
<p class="para">something like earth's own. It is at work in this material 
envelope, this animal encasing of humanity and is vigorously transforming, 
demolishing and building, preparing the new structure.
</p>
<br>
<p class="para"> The embodiment of the supramental, 
the supramental consciousness in its supramental body is indeed even now rather 
a far-off event. But the beginning of a supramen-talised humanity, a section of 
it as the spearhead is quite a possibility in a comparatively near future. A 
race of elite in whom the grosser elements of humanhood, its physical animality 
and mentality have been purified of their dross, refined into something of the 
pure luminous reflection of the higher consciousness—that is the immediate end 
for which the new force seems to be labouring. And the consequence too of this 
achievement is expected to be also very considerable. The whole human race or 
even a majority of it is not likely to be transfigured into the élite, the race 
of the pioneers just referred to. The advent or the preparation of such a body 
will in its turn naturally influence the rest of mankind and act so effectively 
and largely that the human race in general will put on a different aspect, the 
aspect of a humanity not of the Kaliyuga but of the Satyayuga. That is what the 
general human mind has been aspiring for and calling &quot;Ramarajya&quot;. A humanity 
with a radiant mind, a purified, generous, un-egoistic, yet creative vital and a 
physical consciousness enjoying, revealing, building forms of true beauty seems 
to be a nearer and intermediary probability—and animal-born humanity retaining 
its normal animal structure, still
</p>
<br><p class="pageno">Page-6</p>
<hr>
<p class="para">out-growing its grosser movements and instincts, controlling and 
guiding, modifying and utilising them to higher purposes (Pashupati) may well be 
a happy stage towards the final appearance of the supramental race wholly 
transcending the frame of animality, born and existing in the purely supramental 
way.
</p>
<br>
<p class="para"> A supramentalised material 
universe or rather physical earth may itself put on a different, a radiant 
appearance and also the beings and creatures of the other levels of life and 
physical existence may also undergo a sea-change, but of that nothing need be or 
can be previewed at present.
</p>
<br><p class="pageno">Page-7</p>
	</td>
</tr>
	</table>
</div>
</html>
