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<p class="paracenter">A PAGE OF OCCULT HISTORY
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<p class="para"> At the beginning of creation, 
four individual formations—the first personalities—made their appearance. There 
were: (1) a Being of Light or Consciousness, (2) a Being of Truth or Reality, 
(3) a Being of Love or Ananda and (4) a Being of Life. And the first law of 
creation was freedom of decision. These Beings were manifestations in the free 
movement of the Divine; they themselves moved free, according to their 
individualised conscious will. They stood out, as if in relief, on the 
background of the Divine Existence. For originally, although they differentiated 
themselves from each other and from the Divine, yet they formed a unified 
harmony and lived and moved and had their being as different members of the same 
divine Body. At first they stood out, but still essentially and apparently 
linked on to their fountain and origin. Soon, however, they stood out no longer 
on the Divine, but moved out of him, away and separate; they sought to fulfil 
their individualised will and destiny. The Divine did not impose its will or 
force these individualities to turn round: that would frustrate the very purpose 
of creation. He allowed these independent beings to enjoy their full
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<p class="para">independence, although they were born out of him and essential 
part and parcel of his own being. They went abroad on a journey of adventure, 
each carving out its own line of growth and fulfilment. The first fruit, the 
inevitable reaction of freedom was precisely, as is just said, a separation from 
the Divine, each one encircled within its ego, limited and bound to its own fund 
of potency: individualism means limitation. Now, once separated, the connection 
with the source snapped, that is to say in the outward activity, in dynamic 
movement or becoming (not in essential being), the Four Independents lapsed into 
their opposites: Light changed to Darkness, i.e. consciousness to 
unconsciousness, Truth changed to Falsehood, Delight changed to Pain and 
Suffering, and Life changed to Death. That is how the four undivine principles, 
the Powers of the Undivine came to rule and fashion the material creation.
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<p class="para"> Into the heart of this Darkness 
and Falsehood and Pain and Death, a seed was sown, a grain that is to be the 
epitome and symbol of material creation and in and through which the Divine will 
claim back all the elements gone astray, the prodigal ones who will return to 
recognise and fulfil the Divine. That was Earth. And the earth, in her turn, in 
her labour towards the Divine Fulfilment, out of her bosom, threw up a being who 
would again symbolise and epitomise the earth
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<p class="para">and material creation. That is Man. For, man came with the soul 
in him, the Psychic Being, the Divine Flame, the spark of consciousness in the 
midst of universal unconsciousness, a miniature of the original Divine 
Light-Truth-Love-Life. In the meantime, to help the evolution, to join hands 
with the aspiring soul in the human being, there was created, on the defection 
of the First Lords—the Asuric Quaternity—a second hierarchy of luminous 
beings—Devas, gods. (Something of this inner history of the world is reflected 
in the Greek legend of struggle between the Titans and the Olympians.) These 
gods, however, being a posterior creation, perhaps because they were young and 
inexperienced, could not cope immediately with their strong Elders. It is why we 
see in the mythological legends the gods very often worsted at the hands of the 
Asuras, Indra hiding under the sea, Zeus threatened often with defeat and 
disaster. It is only an intervention from the Supreme (the Greeks called it 
Fate) that saved them in the end and restored the balance.
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<p class="para"> However, the Asuras came to think 
better of the game and consented to use their freedom on the side of the Divine, 
for the fulfilment of the Divine; that is to say, they agreed to conversion. 
Thus they took birth as or in human beings, so that they may be in contact with 
the hitman soul—Psyche—which is the only door or passage to the Divine in this 
material world. But the
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<p class="para">matter was not easy; the process was not straight. For, even 
agreeing to be converted, even basking in the sunshine of the human psychic, 
these incorrigible Elders could not forget or wholly give up their old habit and 
nature. They now wanted to work for the Divine Fulfilment in order to magnify 
themselves thereby; they consented to serve the Divine in order to make the 
Divine serve them, utilise the Divine End for their own purposes. They wished to 
see the new creation after their own heart's desire.
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<p class="para"> That is how things have become 
difficult upon earth and are delaying the ultimate consummation which, however, 
is sure to come about when the wheel of Time or Fate has turned full circle.
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-59</p>
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