The Creative Process Blog

God and man ‘work with’ each other, aspiring to transform human consciousness into the perfection (compassion) of the One.

Simply, they are involved within a progression from matter, to life, to mind, and then to Spirit; or another way, our consciousness progresses from infrahuman, to human, to suprahuman. Humanity, finally, is to be surpassed, living totally ‘within’ the life of humanity while being ‘above’ humanity, in order to guide Nature to the perfection of the One.

The numinous levels of the psyche can be understood progressively in terms of the violence of sacrifice:

God sacrifices man for God

God sacrifices God for man

Man sacrifices God for man

Man sacrifices man for God and man

God and man, giving themselves ‘entirely to create’ the meaning of existence, are ‘working out’ the evolutionary process. The operative word is ‘work’, which means, destroying in order to create. We are asked to be more than we know how to be, continually brought into question, overcoming simplicity with greater complexity and increased intricacy (compassion).

God is not in a distant heaven but within ourselves and our society. Our work is to go within, awakening the power of the deep unconscious, in order to bring the Self to form . . . ‘overcoming’ ourselves to be our Self.

AUROBINDO QUOTE
The idea or experience of an inner darkness when looking inwards is the first reaction of a mentality which has lived always on the surface and has no realized inner existence; it has only a constructed internal experience which depends on the outside world for the materials of its being. But to those into whose composition there has entered the power of a more inner living, the movement of going within and living within brings not a darkness or dull emptiness but an enlargement, a rush of new experience, a greater vision, a larger capacity, an extended life infinitely more real and various than the first pettiness of the life constructed for itself by our normal physical humanity, a joy of being which is larger and richer than any delight in existence that the outer vital man or the surface mental man can gain by their dynamic vital force and activity or subtlety and expansion of the mental existence.

God and man ‘work with’ each other, aspiring to transform human consciousness into the perfection (compassion) of the One.

Simply, they are involved within a progression from matter, to life, to mind, and then to Spirit; or another way, our consciousness progresses from infrahuman, to human, to suprahuman. Humanity, finally, is to be surpassed, living totally ‘within’ the life of humanity while being ‘above’ humanity, in order to guide Nature to the perfection of the One.

The numinous levels of the psyche can be understood progressively in terms of the violence of sacrifice:

God sacrifices man for God

God sacrifices God for man

Man sacrifices God for man

Man sacrifices man for God and man

God and man, giving themselves ‘entirely to create’ the meaning of existence, are ‘working out’ the evolutionary process. The operative word is ‘work’, which means, destroying in order to create. We are asked to be more than we know how to be, continually brought into question, overcoming simplicity with greater complexity and increased intricacy (compassion).

God is not in a distant heaven but within ourselves and our society. Our work is to go within, awakening the power of the deep unconscious, in order to bring the Self to form . . . ‘overcoming’ ourselves to be our Self.

AUROBINDO QUOTE
The idea or experience of an inner darkness when looking inwards is the first reaction of a mentality which has lived always on the surface and has no realized inner existence; it has only a constructed internal experience which depends on the outside world for the materials of its being. But to those into whose composition there has entered the power of a more inner living, the movement of going within and living within brings not a darkness or dull emptiness but an enlargement, a rush of new experience, a greater vision, a larger capacity, an extended life infinitely more real and various than the first pettiness of the life constructed for itself by our normal physical humanity, a joy of being which is larger and richer than any delight in existence that the outer vital man or the surface mental man can gain by their dynamic vital force and activity or subtlety and expansion of the mental existence.