... 1880-1910”. There he writes about that period: “Occult science tended to stress man’s intimate and meaningful relationship with the cosmos in terms of ‘revealed’ correspondences between the microcosm and macrocosm, and strove to counter materialist science, with its emphasis upon tangible and measurable phenomena and its neglect of invisible qualities respecting the spirit and the emotions. These new ...
... the historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke writes: “Occult science tended to stress man’s intimate and meaningful relationship with the cosmos in terms of ‘revealed’ correspondences between the microcosm and macrocosm, and strove to counter materialist science, with its emphasis upon tangible and measurable phenomena and its neglect of invisible qualities respecting the spirit and emotions. These new ‘m ...
... the closeness of chaos. "And I think there is a lot of evidence for that including cultural evidence....."9. It can be said that, as the field of research is expanding, both microcosmically and macrocosmically, fresh data are pouring upon us to suggest that the materialistic view of the universe and the materialistic interpretation of evolution should lose force and give way to a new way of ...
... beyond doubt by now that the fact is not so. The only way to cure the world outside is to cure oneself first inside. The ancient proverb still holds good: the macrocosm is only an enlargement of the microcosm, the microcosm is the macrocosm in miniature. The universe is a transcript, a projection on a large scale of the individual nature within. What is there is here and what is not here is not found ...
... physical centre is usually felt—only all the action takes place around the individual. All is in the self; when identified with the universal self, all is in you. Also, the microcosm reproduces the macrocosm—so all is present in each, though all is not expressed (and cannot be) in the surface consciousness. The Atman, the Soul and the Psychic Being The Atman is one in all, is not born ...
... hint of it at least, though not the permanent, ineffable realisation of it. In the ultimate analysis, the stage—be it Hell, Earth, Chaos, Purgatory, or Paradise—is the human heart; the microcosm is the macrocosm. Savitri may be said to be the third and final term in the series, of which the earlier terms are the Commedia and Paradise Lost. It is an attempt to, "reveal from ...
... the self; when identified with the universal self, all is in you. Also, the microcosm reproduces the macrocosm—so all is present in each, though all is not expressed (and cannot be) in the surface consciousness. There is the experience of the microcosm (the universe in oneself) in which all that is in the macrocosm (the larger universe) is present. All these things are for experience, for knowledge ...
... combine the two for the perfect possession of the various relations of Purusha and Prakriti in the light of the Divine. There is, says the Upanishad, a fivefold soul in man and the world, the microcosm and the macrocosm. The physical soul, self or being,—Purusha, Atman,—is that of which we are all at first conscious, a self which seems to have hardly any existence apart from the body and no action vital ...
... in the end, even, this seemingly small embodied consciousness can so enlarge itself that it contains in itself the whole universe, ātmani viśa-darśanam . But, physically, it is a microcosm in a macrocosm, and the macrocosm too, the large world too, is a body and field inhabited by the spiritual knower. That becomes evident when the Gita proceeds to state the character, nature, source, deformations ...
... reflection within of the seven objective worlds without, a hierarchy of levels of human consciousness matching exactly a hierarchy or world-stair without; and the tremendous equation "the microcosm is the macrocosm" formed itself inevitably to explain the complex action and tantalising actors in the Vedic drama. It was clear the same Truth or Law sustained the universe without and the bud of the human... here, nor feel the burden or taint of action. To move out of ego's cabinning categories is to be able to see the One in everything and everything in the One and live the truth that "the microcosm is the macrocosm". How, then, can one suffer division, isolation or defeat? They must cease! Of the stages of such self-realisation, Sri Aurobindo writes: The first movement of self-realisation... sacrifice, and their exact implications for the inner sacrifice or consecration: in other words, to discover the numerous correspondences between the cosmic system or the outer universe and the microcosmic world of the individual human entity. Sri Aurobindo found it sometimes convenient to work backwards from Purana to Upanishad and Upanishad to Veda, like tracking a known river to its mountainous ...
... 452; parallelism and symbolism, 452; symbolism of sacrifice, 453; Veda as high-aspiring Song of Humanity, 454; the seven-fold cosmic scheme, 454; the linkworld of satyam-rtam-brhat, 454; microcosm is macrocosm, 454; Sri Aurobindo's translations from Veda, 455; Hymns to Agni, 455-57; language of the Veda, 456; who is Agni, 456; a god elect, eclectic, unique, 457; 'Apri' hymns, 457; Varuna ...
... Human society was for them an attempt to express in life the cosmic Purusha. … Man and the cosmos are both of them symbols and expressions of the same hidden reality.” 2 Man as a microcosm contains the macrocosm within him. The structure of his person is expressed in society as the fundamental characteristics of the brahmin , kshatriya , vaishya and shudra . These four “ varnas, ” writes... And knowledge of them puts the importance of the Aurobindian revolution in perspective. Positivist and Spiritual Evolution The central theme of this talk is that the macrocosm, and in it the human being as the microcosm, are brought about by a divine creative Force above and behind them, which Sri Aurobindo calls “Supermind.” What Sri Aurobindo called Supermind, and what he and the Mother discovered... takes are determined from on high, and ultimately from the Supermind, the creative Being emanating (as rendered in the sephiroth, the chakras and the chain of being) the structures of the macro- and microcosm. “For the evolution proceeded in the past by the upsurging, at each critical stage, of a concealed Power from its involution in the Inconscience, but also by a descent from above, from its own plane ...
... of this fourfold constitution of the being, certain fundamental views of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy need to be grasped. First, man's being is part of the being of the universe, man being a microcosm of the macrocosm; therefore the psychological nature of man is intimately related to the metaphysical nature of the universe. Secondly, all of the universe is a manifestation of consciousness which has been ...
... spiritually advanced people for the Ashram. Nothing of the kind. She selects different types.... She wants to observe how the Divine works in different types." 32 The Ashram society was the microcosm of the macrocosmic global human race; and the integral Yoga was verily a pilot-project in the dynamics of individual and collectivist change, and the "instruments" were therefore chosen with that object in ...
... mechanism. This is the great resistance to the change of power, the molehill trying to stay the law of Harmony. Therefore it is where the battle is taking place at this moment, in the microcosm and the macrocosm. It is like a caricature (or the more exact face) of all the polished and civilized activities of the brilliant elf of the higher levels: doubt, fear, avidity, self-centeredness, all the... and churning its humanity, like the “ocean of unconsciousness” of the Puranic legends, until it yields all its nectar of immortality. And the seeker discovers – on his own small scale, in the microcosm he represents – that the Harmony of the new world, the new consciousness he has touched gropingly, is a tremendous transforming Power. In the past, it may have chanted up above, produced lovely ...
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