The reason for involution is Delight-the Delight of Being (the Spirit or Absolute) moving to Delight of Becoming (temporal existence, the cosmos). Spirit or consciousness manifests as these three, and then as the intermediate link of Supermind, which is transitional between the higher and lower (matter, life, and mind) nature. Sat, Chit- Tapas, and Delight/ Ananda are the three aspects of Satchitananda, and they are part of involution. the Absolute, Brahman extends Itself to create a universe of separate forms from out of Its own Force/Energy. The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, a Rosicrucian text written by Max Heindel, advances the concept of epigenesis as the key related to the evolution (after an involutionary period) of human beings.Īccording to Sri Aurobindo Introduction Sri Aurobindoįor Sri Aurobindo, involution is the process by which the Omnipresent Reality, i.e. In the cosmology of Surat Shabda Yoga, involution and evolution apply to both the macrocosm, the whole of creation, and the microcosm, the constitution of an individual soul. This succeeding period of existence, during which the individual human being develops self-consciousness into divine omniscience, is called " spiritual evolution". From that point, life begins to ascend into higher Worlds. Its purpose is to slowly carry life lower and deeper into denser and denser matter for the building of forms, till the nadir of materiality is reached. That period of time devoted to the attainment of self- consciousness and the building of the vehicles through which the spirit in man manifests, is called involution. Involution thus refers to the incarnation of spirit in an already established matter, the necessary prerequisite of evolution:Īs an example, the so-called descent of the Monad into matter means an involution or involving or infolding of spiritual potencies into material vehicles which coincidentally and contemporaneously, through the compelling urge of the infolding energies, unfold their own latent capacities, unwrap them, roll them forth and this is the evolution of matter. When the universe attains a stage of sufficient density, the individual spirit is able to descend and participate in the evolution. In theosophy, anthroposophy and Rosicrucianism, involution and evolution are part of a complex sequence of cosmic cycles, called Round. In some instances it refers to a process prior to evolution which gives rise to the cosmos, in others it is an aspect of evolution, and in still others it is a process that follows the completion of evolution in the human form. The term involution has various meanings.
Several notions of a counterpart to evolution
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