Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance towards the Sevenfold Knowledge Garry Jacobs Involution creates a Seven-fold Ignorance Original Ignorance of the Absolute Cosmic.
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Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance towards the Sevenfold Knowledge
Garry Jacobs 1
Involution creates a Seven-fold Ignorance
Original Ignorance of the Absolute
Cosmic Ignorance of the unity of God and Nature
Temporal Ignorance of our eternal existence
Egoistic Ignorance of our oneness with others
Psychological Ignorance of the entire fullness of our being
Constitutional Ignorance of our surface mind, life, body
Practical Ignorance of truth and right action in the world 2
Process of Creation by Involution
By Self-conception , Supermind projects Brahman as an object to its own subjective self-experience
By Self-limitation , Mind divides the One into God & Nature, Consciousness & Force, Time & Timeless, Finite & Infinite
By Self-absorption , Consciousness becomes involved in Force as energetic movements of Life and immobile forms of Matter
Ego separates our surface consciousness from the Self in the depths and from other selves
Ignorance knowledge separates us from the entirety and integrality of 3
Process of Evolution is by Ascent and Integration
Evolution raises the Force of Consciousness in the manifest being to the greater intensity of what is still unmanifest
Evolution is by a heightening, widening, integration
Values change as we ascend to each new level
Integral transformation to manifest Spirit in Life is the aim of Being in Nature
Evolution is growth out of 7-fold ignorance into integral Knowledge 4
Indian Spiritual Tradition
Starts from the surface in one of the parts of being and tries to reach the spirit
It moves to the subtle inner mind – Purusha – and from there to the Superconscient
It regards the individual as temporary
It regards the world as ephemeral or irredeemable
It regards the ego for as creator and rejects the world as incorrigible falsehood, suffering or Maya 5
Tradition starts from Mind and accepts as real separation and division into
Absolute and the Relative
Immutable Brahman and mutable Brahman
Transcendent and Universal
Matter and Spirit
Life and Spirit
God and Nature 6
Constitutional Ignorance
We are unaware of our true self
Our consciousness is founded on the plane of Matter
Our predominant principle is mental intelligence supported by the sense-mind
Our mental intelligence is preoccupied with material existence
We rely on the emphasis of senses on outer actions & appearances
Our lives are a compromise with matter—material vitalism
Mental, Vital and Physical function separately and in conflict
This is the crux of our Ignorance 7
First step toward humanity’s progress
This preoccupation with matter and life is a necessary first step
Outgrowing vital materialism is essential for true happiness and fullness of being
Growth into full mental being is first transitional move to freedom and perfection 8
Becoming mental beings
Rising in the scale of mind opens the possibility of a higher, wider existence, consciousness, force, happiness & delight Mind is liberated from tyranny of physical and life
We acquire greater knowledge & control over our physical-vital existence Life and body become obedient to higher will, ethical perception and aesthetic intelligence Our parts acquire higher values Mother should be more real to us than property & social approval 9
Mind is not enough
Surface mental knowledge of physical universe is imperfect guide
Even truths of physical things cannot be entirely known
We cannot know or make the right use of material existence
Mind serves the vital and physical
Mind lacks the power to purify and transform life 10
We must go beyond and within
We must heighten and widen our consciousness universally and infinitely
We must infuse, transform and integralize our natural being with the Being, Consciousness and Delight of Spirit 11
Overcoming Constitutional Ignorance
We can heighted and widen our natural being and integrate it with higher spiritual principles
We can rise above mental intelligence to discover higher principles, powers, ranges, instruments beyond mind, vital, physical
We can go within to discover ourselves as Soul or Spirit using mind, life and body as field for experience
Then we can possess the true constitution of our being 12
Psychological Ignorance
Conquest of Constitutional Ignorance cannot be complete without conquest of Psychological Ignorance
Psychological Ignorance is a limitation of self-knowledge to surface conscient waking self
Behind the surface is a vast subliminal existence and energy of our secret being 13
Surface consciousness is bound, hedged in, encircled
Ego divides us from not self
Limitation of the senses prevents wider knowledge
Identification with the body limits us in space and time
Identification with a class, position, role, social identity
Limitation of our beliefs, attitudes and values 14
Subliminal Being
Subconscient
Intraconscient
Circumconscient
Superconscient
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Subconscient
Subconscient is below the mind & conscious life – inferior and obscure
Subconscient is Inconscience in process of becoming conscious
Purely physical – bodily functions and life processes
Vital elements – unmentalized impulses, urges
Submerged sense-mind – more operative in the animal and plant
Memory of past impressions beneath the surface arising in dreams
Everything rejected from the surface
Subconscious is reverse of the surface
Subconscious supports all in us that refuses to change 16
Changing the subconscious
Changing the subconscious is indispensable for higher life and integral transformation of the nature
Subconscious cannot be changed by a descent alone
Descent would plunge us into dull trance or sleep
Gaining awareness and control of it are very important
Mind can be aware and control only by –
ascending to superconscient
looking down from the heights
transforming the depths by the higher consciousness 17
Intraconscient of the Subliminal
Intraconscient is still more valuable and potent than Subconscious
The real power is not on the surface
Inner intelligence, sense-mind, vital and subtle physical being
Subliminal mediates between Inconscient and the larger planes of Life and Mind created by the involutionary descent
Subliminal supports our waking consciousness &surface responses 18
Circumconscient
Circumconscient is an enveloping consciousness which receives currents from universal Mind, Life and Subtle material forces
We can control by penetrating the dividing wall and becoming conscious of them
We become fully aware by going behind the veil of surface mind and living in the inner mind, life and inmost soul
We can also rise to a higher plane of mind above the waking consciousness 19
Superconscient
Superconscient & Inconscient were created by a double involution
Superconscient includes the higher spiritual planes of mind, supermind and pure spiritual being
Ascent beyond normal mind is necessary to reach integral self knowledge, consciousness and being
Self-transcendence involves Ascent, Widening and Integration
We must rise into higher planes of Mind to become conscious in the Superconscient
Destiny of man is to unite the sSubconscient with Superconscient 20
Temporal Ignorance
We live from moment to moment in Time ignorant of past & future
Our view is limited to the present body between a single birth and death
We are ignorant of the karma of past deeds
We do not know what is waiting in future births
Temporal ignorance is dependent upon the constitutional ignorance – living on the surface 21
Realizing our Immortality
Overcoming temporal ignorance is possible only by withdrawing from absorbing material preoccupation and to live constantly in the inner and higher planes of spiritual Mind and pure Spirit
We have to live in the consciousness of our immortality
We can awaken to and live consciously in both Timeless Immortality and Time Immortality
Timeless Immortality –the Spirit’s timeless existence is the true immortality
Time Immortality –the soul’s perpetual continuity of temporal existence and experience from life to life 22
Overcoming Egoistic Ignorance
Ego is falsification of our true individuality
Ego separates us from other souls & shuts us up in our individual experience
Ego prevents us from living as the universal individual
Ego separates us from God, our highest Self, the one Self in all existences, Divine Inhabitant within us
Ego cannot survive heightening, deepening and widening of spirit
True individuality remains after disappearance of ego
By widening, our separate individuality becomes universal
By rising into the supreme infinity and eternity, we become independent of individual and cosmic existence 23
Overcoming Cosmic Ignorance
We gain knowledge of ourselves as the timeless, immutable Self possessing itself in and beyond cosmos
We reunite and reconcile the One and the Many
We reconcile eternal unity and eternal multiplicity
We reunite soul with God
We discover the Divine in the universe – basis for the Divine Play in Time 24
Overcoming the Original Ignorance
Now we can approach the Absolute as the source of all circumstances and relations
We can raise our existence to absolute values that converge into the Absolute 25
Overcoming the Practical Ignorance
Practical Ignorance expresses as wrong-doing, suffering, error, confusion, discord and falsehood
Only when the other six forms of Ignorance are transformed can perfect Knowledge replace the practical ignorance.
False, imperfect values are transformed into divine values of Infinite Being, Consciousness-Force and Ananda 26
Mental vs. Supramental Knowledge
Mental knowledge is knowledge of the separate parts and their surface relationship to one another
Supramental Knowledge is knowledge of the whole and integration of all its aspects with one another to discover
Finite as frontal appearance of the infinite
Ignorance as limitation of knowledge not its opposite
Formlessness as the basis for all form
Oneness as the source of the Many
Silence as basis for all movement
Being as basis for Becoming – not its opposite
Absolute as the basis for the Relative 27
Conscious Spiritual Evolution
Change from mental into spiritual and supramental way of being
Self-expansion out of sevenfold ignorance into sevenfold knowledge
Natural completion of upward process of Nature
The true spiritual individual emerges
Spiritual Evolution transforms life in Ignorance into Divine Life of truth-conscious spirit
Life no longer appears as a formation of things and an action of beings created by separative Ignorance 28
Sincerity
Spiritual sincerity is an inner psychic status capable of receiving Grace
Psychic sincerity brings one in contact with Mother’s consciousness
Mental receptivity results in clarity & attracts the knowledge we seek
Physical sincerity restores lost objects
Body’s sincerity is receptivity that thrills in gratitude
Gratitude is an emotion of the psychic being
Sincerity makes gratitude possible
Sincerity to Mother is to be aware of God’s intention and act on it – he tells us that intention in the book
Increasing sincerity is everlasting opening 29