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We shall discuss in this chapter three great faculty inherent each higher creative stage, which appears, simultaneously on closing of the preceding stage.
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We may call the first great faculty with the name of “analytic faculty” – the faculty through which each higher stage investigates the values lived in the external world. We have learnt that each higher creative stage which appears simultaneously on closing of the preceding stage cannot come down from its higher conscious plan. Since no higher stage can ever remain cut off spiritually from the preceding stages and develop as an island, this faculty serves as a medium for each higher stage to establish its link with the external world and investigate the values lived in them under its higher conscious enlightenment. This remarkable faculty under which each higher stage establishes link with the preceding stages not only helps the higher stage in developing values of the stage but it also helps in bridging the gulfs between the stages and through that gives rational order to the different stages, we call it the universe.
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This remarkable faculty helps each creative stage in preserving and developing values of the stage from within. We may name this great faculty as the "faculty of procreation". Through this faculty, each creative stage strictly preserves the values of the stage from within through complementary division of values at spiritual level of the stage. While living in polarity, the relative values through mutual spiritual action continue to maintain and reproduce them.
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This great faculty which is inherent in each creative stage may be called the “rational faculty”. Through this faculty nature provides laws, determines values and gives direction to each developing stage from within the stage for accomplishment of values in the right direction. No developing stage can ever reach completion until it strictly follows the laws, values and direction imparted to it from within through this
faculty. All of these remarkable faculties which are laid on spiritual basis and have been active in different forms throughout the development of the universe, right from the elementary stages of Cosmos up to the present creative stage of Man stand as basic pillars of the Creative Process of universe in stages. We shall first discuss the need of faculty we called “analytical faculty” its role and imperatives in developing each higher creative stage.
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Universe – A Continuum Whole
“Under this remarkable faculty each higher stage establishes its link with the preceding stages; determines values lived in them under its higher conscious enlightenment and by bridging the gulfs existing between them gives rational order to the universe”
The faculty we shall briefly discuss here is multifarious in nature and is laid on spiritual values. It exists throughout the universe in different forms relevant to the rational plan of each higher stage. The scientists are yet learning to understand this great faculty functioning at the High and Low Energy developmental process of Cosmos. We are, however, aware of this faculty working at the creative stage of Earth. Particularly, we know this faculty active at the organic stages of Vegetables and Animals as well as at the present Self-conscious Stage of Man. At the Vegetable and Animal stages of development, we call this faculty as the “faculty of digestion” or “ digestive system” and at the Self-conscious Stage of man, we call it as the "faculty of reason" or "analytic faculty" of Human Self. We shall now discuss the need, role and imperatives of this faculty, we call it the "analytic faculty" and which come along and is developed by each higher stage.
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Each higher stage, which starts from insignificant values of the stage simultaneously on closing of the preceding stage, has to confront tremendous difficulties for its development. Unless, therefore, it appears with a special rational faculty with which it could, while living at its higher conscious plan, investigate the values in the external world as well as face the obstacles standing in its way, it can neither maintain itself nor can it develop values of the stage. The following factors establishes the need for such a medium or faculty:
- Under one of the cardinal principles of creation, simultaneously on start of the higher creative stage, the values earned in the preceding stage become fixed. The preceding stage, which lives at an infinite low intellectual level, remains ignorant of the higher stage living on it. Since the preceding stages stubbornly continue to preserve their values and never relax or change them in favour of the higher stage, they remain constant threat to the very existence of the higher stage. The fixed behaviour of the preceding stages living at an infinite low and different kind of rational order also becomes a stumbling block in the way of development of the higher stage. In-order, therefore, as well as help it in developing values of the stage under the higher plan of consciousness, it is imperative for the higher stage to investigate the values of the preceding stages living outside it and without overthrowing them (as these can never be overthrown because they remain fixed and immutable) overcome their resistance. The higher is apt to bring along a medium which could have access to the external world and help analyse the behaviour lived in the whole creation living beneath it under higher conscious light of the stage. It may be mentioned that the potential threat to the higher creative stage from the fixed behaviour of the external world is not without wisdom. This hostile situation which continues to lurk on the higher stage keeps the higher stage alert and prevents it slumbering or going tardy for the very sake of its existence. Hence to keep itself abreast with the situation, the higher stage has to come with a medium which could help probe the behaviour of the external world which remains fixed and help it overcoming its
resistance. [The evolutionists believe that the higher stage co-exists with the preceding stages by adaptation with the values lived in them. It should be noted that the higher stage, which appears at an infinite higher plan of consciousness cannot come down to the level of the values, lived in the preceding stages. Whenever the higher stage appears, it comes along with the infra-structure which could have the capability to dominate the behaviour of the whole nature living beneath it and at the same time rise to the highest values of the stage. At the very start of Animal Stage, amoeba survived not because of its adaptation with the external world. It survived because of its infrastructure, which had been computerised and laid under the higher plan of consciousness, which dominated the conscious order of all the nature living outside it. The question is, how could a higher stage adapt the values of the stage, which exists at an infinite low and different plan of consciousness. The higher stage could adapt the values of the lower stage only if it could come down from its higher state of consciousness. But in that case it would not be a higher stage. It would be living at the conscious level of the preceding stage at a higher degree but not at a higher stage laid on infinite higher plan of consciousness superseding the conscious level of the whole nature living beneath it. The higher stage cannot make adaptation even under the need of self-preservation, as it is apt to arrest the development of the stage completely. Nature never tolerates such adaptations and is apt to annihilate the creation if ever found slumbering or going tardy. Hence what the evolutionists call ‘adaptation', it is nothing but improvements cleverly made by the higher stage in its infra-structure under higher plan of the stage to enable it to dominate the fixed behaviour of the world living outside it and at the same time earn higher values of the stage. Adaptation is not made under the need of self-preservation. A very inferior organism is as well adapted as the higher organisms to the conditions of existence, judged by its success in maintaining itself.]
- The universe though raised in successive stages, yet as it is being under an overall purpose of creation; it spiritually exists as a continuum whole. Therefore, the higher stage, which appears at unprecedented higher plan of consciousness though, lives and develops as an independent stage, yet it cannot cut off spiritually from all the preceding stages and live as an island. Each higher stage descends from the overall purpose of the creation. Unless, therefore, the higher stage spiritually remains attached with all the creation and satisfies its innate urge of knowing and exploring the values lived in the preceding stages under the higher plan of its consciousness, it can never develop as an independent higher stage. The need for coming up with a faculty with which the higher stage, while living at an infinitely higher kind of consciousness, could maintain link with the external world exists as indispensable for developing it as an independent stage.
- The urge to know itself, its identification and purpose of existence is the very characteristics of consciousness. However, the universe being in the process of creation, there does not exist any absolute, stationary frame of reference with which the higher stage could identify its values and its place. It is therefore, imperative that the higher stage must come along with an analytic faculty as a medium, which could probe the whole nature living beneath it, and determine its place and the very purpose of its existence. It should be
noted [ Incidentally, these facts reject the doctrine of evolution according to which values develop from below. It also nullifies the claim that the higher values earned by the succeeding stage under its higher conscious plan are the sublimated version of the values living in the preceding stages as the values of the preceding stages can neither transform nor change their characteristics fixed under the low and different kind of conscious plan. Besides, the values earned by the higher stage dominate the whole of nature and not only the values fixed by the immediate preceding stage.]
that such a medium does not investigate the values lived in the immediate preceding stage. It probes the whole nature living beneath the higher stage.
The principal law of the creative process that higher stage cannot come down to the level of the creative stages living beneath it and at the same time the innate urge from within the creative stage for probing the world living outside it and through that determining the values under its own conscious enlightenment establishes that each higher stage which starts from insignificant values of the stage comes along with a medium or a faculty which could have direct access to all the preceding stages and understand the values lived in them under higher conscious enlightenment of the stage. The end products of such "knowledge" serve as vitality to the higher stage for satisfying its spiritual urge of self-identification as well as for satisfying its sense of attachment with the external world. It also helps to survive it by intelligently overcoming the threat made by the fixed behaviour of the external world vis-ŕ-vis developing the values as an independent higher stage.
When we study the links established by the higher stages, we find that the nature of these links and the vitality received varied from stage to stage corresponding to the conscious enlightenment of each stage. Although, we are not aware of the form of links established at the Cosmos, we are aware of the form of link established by the Earth as an independent stage with the solar system and through that the Cosmos. Similarly, we know the forms of links developed at the biological stages and the present Self-conscious Stage of Man with the stages living beneath them. It may be mentioned that though, we cannot lay technicalities the way these faculties function as it is a very intricate process which may be investigated and studied by the scientists, we shall briefly generalise here the links and their forms established by each higher creative stage relevant to its conscious enlightenment.
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The planet Earth as an independent creative stage outside the Cosmos maintains its link with the Cosmos through the Solar System by extracting energy (vitality) from the sun as "food" for its living processes. In this connection we produce a passage from Frederick Engels' work titled "Dialectics of Nature". Although the passage is written in the context that force and energy are aspects of attraction and repulsion, nevertheless it throws light on the fixed position of Earth and its link with the Cosmos through the Solar System. Engels writes:
"For we are concerned here, first of all, not with the universe, but with the phenomena occurring on the earth and conditioned by the exactly fixed position of the earth in the solar system, and of the solar system in the universe. At every moment, however, our solar system gives out enormous quantities of motion into space, and motion of a very definite quality, viz., the sun's heat, i.e., and repulsion. But our earth itself allows of the existence of life on it only owing to the sun's heat, and the earth in turn finally radiates into space the sun's heat received, after it has converted a portion of this heat into other forms of motion. Consequently, in the solar system and above all on the earth, attraction already considerably preponderates over repulsion. Without the repulsive motion radiated to us from the sun, all motion on the earth would cease."
Engels' observation supports the fact that the Planet earth maintains its link with the Cosmos through the solar system by absorbing the sun contents strictly in accordance with its living requirements. Planet earth as an independent creative stage has developed its own shell of magneto-sphere around it - a sort of screening system - which allows only that sort of sun's radiation which is needed for its living purposes as a vitality (food) and after absorbing the necessary contents flushes away the rest of it as a waste. All the physical laws developed by the Planet Earth were strictly built under the higher conscious plan of Planet Earth. The magneto-sphere and other allied apparatus serve the Planet Earth as an analytic faculty through which it maintains its link with the solar system and through that the whole Cosmos. Earth 's magneto-sphere is a kind of an armour protecting it from a flux of super-fast charged particles radiated from the sun and takes in only that sort of radiation which is useful for it. Earth's magnetic field remains considerably flattened on the illuminated side.
If we look at the earth, which shaped itself in the form of hills, streams, valleys, rivers, seas etc., we find remarkable proportions in these formations because of which they look beautiful and attractive. Now these values and measurements in the physical form of earth we call them physical laws have been created through the higher rational plan of earth. These laws, as revealed by the classic physics, do not exist in a unified order anywhere else in the whole Cosmos. Since these laws without overthrowing the values fixed in the Cosmic dominate them, hence these laws have not been laid by Cosmic Order; these have been fixed through the "Analytic" or if we prefer call it the "Sublimation Process" of the Earth under its higher rational plan.
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The Vegetable Stage simultaneously on completion of the creative stage of Earth took its start in a microscopically plastic cell of plant. The Vegetable Stage maintains its link with the physical Earth through its roots and stems and with the Solar System through its chlorophyll, which acts as a "rational faculty" or a "digestive system" of the plant. Through roots and stems, the plant sucks water, minerals etc. from the Earth and through the cell's chlorophyll, the plant traps sunlight in the regions of violet, blue, orange and red wavelengths for synthesising energy-rich compounds. The whole process is known as the process of photosynthesis. The key factor in photosynthesis is water, carbon dioxide and sunlight. The photons of light excite chlorophyll molecule within a plant cell causing it to give off an electron. The chlorophyll molecule, which becomes positively, charged extracts a replacement electron from water; the water is split in the process, producing oxygen and positively charged hydrogen ions. The positive ions and negative electrons are transported to alternate sides of a chloroplast membrane, creating an electrochemical potential similar to that inside a battery. The energy of this natural battery is then used to synthesise ATP molecule-biological activators that are used to convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrates. This description is by no means complete than saying that the brain is an Electro-chemical computer to learn the intricacies involved. Our purpose for laying these descriptions is to establish that each higher creative stage develops its link with all the preceding stages living outside it as without the spiritual vitality received through such links, no higher stage can survive and develop as an island.
Now when we look at the Vegetable Stage, we find that the analytic faculty of Vegetables recast the rational values fixed by the physical Earth as well as the whole nature in the form of various species of vegetables in proportions as determined by the new conscious enlightenment of the Vegetable Stage. If we take the physical laws as the elementary measurements with which the planet Earth fashioned itself and its atmosphere, we could see these measurements recast with greater intelligence at the higher Vegetable Stage in the form of beautiful flowers and their various delightful colours, in the size and shape of plants and trees, in the proportion of tender branches and their leaves as well as in the various kinds of fruits and their juices. All these artistic manifestations are based on complete mathematical equations - a priori consciousness - in so harmonious proportions that they decorate the Earth like the paradise.
Life is not the appellation of consciousness only. Beauty and attraction are also the characteristics of consciousness. As life or consciousness advances step by step to higher stages its form and materiality in which it appears continue to soften and rise in harmonious proportions as compared to the crude forms and materiality it lived in the preceding stages. The characteristics in life to maintain discipline, attract harmony and observe proportions in its manifestation shows that the Creator of the universe is not merely a Universal Consciousness, but He is also a Universal Beauty.
Looking at the various kinds of colourful flowers and the artistic cuts of their leaves as well as different kinds of plants living side by side, we cannot say that these values have evolved from the unified order of physical earth which never knew even the existence of Vegetable Stage on it. We can never imagine that various kinds of juices developed by Vegetables were secreted by stones and minerals or that the various beautiful colours in the form of plastic petals laid artistically by the plants were sublimated by the sun rays on their own by transforming and changing their original characteristics. As a matter of fact this higher sublime work has been made possible by the Vegetable Stage through the medium of its analytic faculty under the light of higher conscious plan.
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The Animal Stage took its start in the unicellular amoeba - a microscopic organism. The animal maintained its link with the vegetables and physical world through the analytic faculty we call it the "digestive system". At its initial stage, the animal cell of amoeba which appears with insignificant sense proportions had an equally insignificant digestive system such as it extracted its food "vitality" from a drop of water by absorbing carbohydrates and oxygen and then as it continued to develop from a single cell to multi-cellular animal, it improved the faculty of digestion and thereby widened the scope of improving sense perceptions. The biologists are well aware about the complicated digestive system of the animal which though functions as an independent laboratory or as an analytic faculty, yet indirectly it remains attached with the perceptual brain of the animal which supports it. It may be noted that the digestive system developed by the organism receives raw contents direct from the world living outside it for processing them strictly in accordance with the wishes of the organism. It establishes that the digestive faculty remains in close proximity of the outer world as well as in indirect touch of the brain, which in the form of different secretions conveys messages for deducing end products with particular characteristics of sensations. Hence whatever the contents are received by the digestive system as food, it honestly analyses them as a rational medium and helps the organism by lifting the end products of the raw material to the sensory level (sublimated form) for absorption as a vitality for improving and maintaining the characteristics of sense perceptions.
At the Animal Stage, the animal determined the world living outside it, the vegetables, the unified physical behaviour of earth and the cosmos under the higher rational plan of senses. The animal, through its analytic faculty (digestive system) analysed and modified the whole nature of the external world in the form of sense perceptions under the higher plan of consciousness. The great task for animal life was to complete its sense perceptions on a universal scale. It is important to note that it was due to the higher conscious enlightenment with which it differentiated the physical characteristics such as darkness and light, remoteness and vicinity, as well as the properties of matter as a liquid or solid, soft or hard, cold or warm. The sense perceptions were not sublimated by the external world, which never knew even the existence of animal life on it. If the sun shown, it was its own way of living, for its life involves shinning and burning. The heat and brightness of the sun are its real characteristics through which it derives satisfaction. As against this, the animal could not just afford to go near the sun. The sun being ignorant of the higher life would simply burn it. Similarly if a certain plant had developed a certain taste in its fruit, bitter or sweet, it was its own characteristic. The meaning given to various tastes by the animal were determined by the higher conscious level of the animal which plants never knew.
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Simultaneously on accomplishment of sense perceptions by the Animal in the physical form of its brain, the life took another big leap and appeared as Self-conscious Entity in man. It should be noted that according to one of the fundamental laws of the Creative Process, simultaneously on appearance of Human Self as Self-conscious Entity, all the values accomplished by the Animal Stage in the physical form of man, that is, its instincts, sense perceptions as well as its form became fixed. Hence Human Self having appeared as an independent higher stage outside the physical body as well as its perceptual brain as a non-material Self-conscious Entity probes the external world through the "faculty of reason" an equally non-material faculty. Up to the Animal Stage, the life was not aware of itself as a Self-conscious Entity as it remained immersed in material forms. Hence upto these stages, all the analytic activities were made through the physical means of motion under space-time barrier. At the Self-conscious Stage, Human self which appeared as a non-material entity, its "faculty of reason", equally non-material, functions through the thought processes laid on pure conscious contents outside the whole material universe.
The Human Self established its link with all the preceding stages through its analytic faculty of reason which lives in close proximity of the sensory area of the physical brain and which also indirectly remains attached with the Human Self which has developed it for processing data of the external physical world as demanded by the Self. The human physical brain is in fact the perfect animal brain in which the animal accomplished uniformity of the sense in all proportions. Hence by living in close proximity of the physical brain, the analytic faculty of reason brought by the Human Self remains in direct touch with the external world through the sense perceptions developed by the physical brain. Man has to take care of the physical needs of its physical body in turn so that it may live to serve him through the physical brain. The Human Self-being non-material and living outside the space-time physical world remains in unconscious state. (We shall discuss it in one of the next chapters).
The animal digestive faculty at the physical stage is a skin to the analytic faculty of reason at the mental stage of Man. We do not find any change in the analytic faculties developed by the preceding stages, as those have since become immutable along with the relevant life stage. However, since at the present creative stage of Man, the Human Self is still in the making and it continues to remain under constant pressure to realise all the latent values of self-cognition, the human analytic faculty has to rise in its deliberations along with self-cognition of self. We shall discuss more of it also in another chapter.
At the present Self-conscious plan of Man, the Human Self, which has directly become conscious of its Creator, wants to know the reality of the external world for satisfying its inherent urge of seeking the Creator. The Human analytic faculty serves the human self by recommending overall reality of the universe as demand by the Self. Accordingly the Human analytic faculty (ego) while investigating the material universe does not see it as the animal perceptions determine it. It looks at it under its infinite higher and wider concept given to it by the Human Self in the form of intuitions. Such as when it finds great harmony and discipline in the development of universe in one direction it makes it aware of certain purpose underlying development of the universe. Or when it sees staggering vastness of heavens and the huge celestial bodies manifesting great energy and grandeur, it convinces it that the purpose underlying development of the universe is equally great. Similarly when the man looks at the fixed character of the universe living outside him it gives him the feeling of superiority over the whole nature and hence he is convinced that his creation is the sole purpose behind the creation of the universe. These and other uncountable concepts which the Human being derives through its analytic faculty are never known to the whole universe. These appeared only in the Human Self, which probed the universe under his higher and exalted conscious enlightenment.
If we look back at the different stages laid in succession, we call it the universe, we will find that all these stages are linked through the medium we have called analytic faculty. Thus the great gulfs existing between the stages are bridged through the analytic faculty of each higher stage. - The faculty which serves as a medium between the two worlds. Through this remarkable faculty the universe despite its development in divergent stages lives as a continuum whole. Such as the Human Self is linked with the instinctive life of plants and the instinctive life of plants is linked with the system of earth and the system of earth is linked with the celestial system we call it the Cosmos. It is because of this faculty that the Human Self lives as an independent whole in the universe. Its whole past though spread over million of years, yet it is reflected in the Human self just as a fleeting moment. All life, inspite of its divergent tendencies, ultimately submerges in the Human Self or Soul. Similarly, all the attributes of the Creator, which He manifested in the creation of the universe, appear in micro-miniaturised form in the unit of Human Self.
The remarkable process of development through links has revealed new truths, which remained, obscure and hidden from us. The fact that it is always the higher stage which develops its link with the whole nature living outside it and not the external world, which remains fixed and never knows the higher stage developed on it establishing that:
- The universe and its developmental processes are living processes; they are not dead or mechanical in nature;
- It supports the scientific discovery that the developmental processes of the universe proceed in one direction only; they are irreversible. These processes are irreversible because they are laid on successive plans of consciousness, which because of the very characteristics of consciousness cannot be reversed.
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"Each creative stage maintains its values distinctly from within and preserves them through a remarkable faculty raised on spiritual values we call it the faculty of procreation."
The other great faculty, which exists as an indispensable part of the creative process, is known as the "faculty of procreation". The development of the universe in different successive stages has shown that each stage which starts simultaneously at the close of the preceding stage being different in the scale of consciousness over all the preceding stages which become immutable on their succession develops its values as a distinct stage living out of all the preceding stages. It is prerequisite, therefore, for each developing stage to reproduce and maintain values of the stage by acting and reacting at its own conscious level from within. The process through which each higher stage preserved and developed its values from within is known as the process of procreation.
Although the procreative process is a medium for continuing and preserving the flow of values at each creative stage but when we study this remarkable process in depth, we find that preservation and continuity of values is not the end in itself; it is a mean to developing the creation step by step to its maturity and perfection through satisfaction of the inherent spiritual love of the Creator. In other words the faculty of procreation is solely laid on satisfaction of spiritual urge from within the creation. We can understand this ingenious process if we take the whole universe as a creation and explain the creative process in the light of inherent spiritual relationship between the Creator and the creation.
The creation, which emerges as an art of the Creator, does not exist independently on its own. It owes its entire existence to its Creator. Hence it's inherent love and attraction for the Creator keeps it restless to seek union with the Creator Who lives as the only attraction or gaol for it. However, since the creation while in the making is unable to conceive the Creator directly at its low and immature conscious level, the only way to satisfy its inherent love for the Creator is to seek Him from within by an instinctive division of its own attributes into two complementary units of attraction. Loving its own beauty and values is in a way loving the Creator because the beauty and charm manifested in creation belong to the Creator only. Through this process each of the infinite unit-values which appear at each stage continue to live by dividing its attributes from within in such complementary units in which the values retained potentially by one unit remain dormant or in unconscious state in the other unit and the values retained potentially by the other unit remain dormant or in unconscious state in the first unit. Thus each complementary unit while living as a unit-whole continues to attract the other complementary unit on spiritual level. We call this mutual attraction between the complementary units as "polarity" in the inorganic stages and "sex" in the organic stages. At the inorganic stages the polarity acted under the external causes while at the organic or mental stages it acted from within the life-units.
The mutual attraction from within each unit-value when on its height draws both the complementary units together as one and through disseminating the values they continue to reproduce and develop values of the stage. It may be noted that the drive behind mutual attraction both at inorganic and organic stages is to get spiritual satisfaction by fusing into a unit whole. However, the union lasts only for a short duration for the reasons that:
- If the polarity or sex-units on their union fuse permanently as a unit-whole, the procreative process would stop; and
- In that case it would imply that life has met its ultimate source, hence it has no urge to go beyond.
The separation of complementary units soon after their union establishes, therefore, that life can find full satisfaction only by attaining permanent union with its Creator. This remarkable process which affords temporary spiritual satisfaction by fusing into one also helps the stage for developing values of its own kind.
In the elementary Cosmic Order, we find procreative process in the polarity of particles and in the huge celestial bodies consisting of the particles. The study of cosmologists has revealed that galaxies behave as living "beast". The polarity between the galaxies of a given class drives them to join together and live in pairs. These galaxies interact each other which results in their merger (a sort of mating) and consequently through disseminating their physical characteristics they continue to preserve their hierarchical system as well as chemical composition, physical morphology etc. At the next higher stage of Earth, the earth has divided itself in complementary poles; we call them the north pole and the south pole. All the physical laws developed by earth in fact reflect the behaviour of infinite substances, which act and react under polarity in the form of pull and push. At the Animal Stage, life started in the unit cell of amoeba, which lived in polarity from within, and then through mutual action and reaction of polarity from within, it continued to develop by splitting in independent units. Later the animal permanently divided itself into two units of complementary attractions in the form of opposite sex. In other words, the polarity instead of living from within the unit cell now separated it in the form of unit organism; each organism living in opposite sex. At the Human stage, we find this complementary division in the physiques of a man and a woman who while living at the same spiritual and conscious plan attract each other because of complementary division of their attributes in physical forms. With the complementary division in attributes, each unit continues to live as a complete whole and at the same time remains divided in attributes! Because of complementary division, both of the units attract each other and through the act of mutual approximation and separation (we call it mating) they continue the flow of human "physical" life, as do the other animal species.
Although at the "physical" level a man and a woman remain in complementary division in the form of opposite sex as the other animal species live, yet we should know that Man as a Self-conscious Entity lives out of the physical body in his mental state at a universal higher order of consciousness where direct spiritual cognition of his Creator has made him conscious of himself. Self-consciousness or self-awareness implies that Human Self has become aware of Entity Whom he consciously or unconsciously, attracts as his Creator. Human Self-being a non-material entity, he seeks his Creator in the non-material
form [ All psychologists and writers on human nature agree that man possesses an urge for ideals. Ideals are the ultimate and the sole dynamic power of all human activity. As a matter of fact human history is the history of Ideals.]
of ideals. Thus very Human Self lives in complementary "spiritual" polarity from within in the form of "Self" and the "Ideal of the Self". Both, that is the Ideal and the Self-Love and mutually lives as a seeker and a sought and as a lover and a loved.
The Procreative Process is thus a spiritual process for developing the creation step by step to its ultimate union with its Source, the Creator. The search for source or we may say the search for affinities is characteristics of all life. The urge for search of affinities is present in matter, in the animal and in man. It is due to this inherent urge of seeking its source that life processes did not stop at a certain stage. After its long journey, the creative process of life is now active at the present Self-conscious stage of Man where for the first time; life has begun to find direct cognition of its Creator. Since, however, it is not yet fit to conceive Him, it seeks its Creator in its mental state in the form of Ideals. The fact that love of Ideals is inherent urge of Man supports the fact that human being consciously or unconsciously is seeking his Creator - his ultimate Love and Source.
It is interesting to note that Sigmund Freud who wrote Theory of sexuality and is considered, as the father of psychoanalysis did not know the very nature of complementary division of man in male and female physical forms. He
writes: [ New introductory lectures on psychoanalysis P.146-149.]
"When you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is "male or female"? And you are accustomed to make the distinction with unhesitating certainty. Anatomical science shares your certainty at one point and not much further. The male sexual product, the spermatozoon, and its vehicle are male; the ovum and the organism that harbours it are female. In both sexes organs have been formed which serve exclusively for the sexual functions; they were probably developed from the same (innate) disposition into two different forms. Besides this, in both sexes the other organs, the bodily shapes and tissues, show the influence of the individual's sex, but this is inconstant and its amount variable; these are what are known as the secondary sexual characters. Science next tells you something that runs counter to your expectation and probably calculated to confuse your feelings. It draws your attention to the fact that portions of the male sexual apparatus also appear in women's bodies, though in an atrophied state, and vice versa in the alternate case. It regards their occurrence as indications of bisexuality, as though an individual is not a man or a woman but always both - merely a certain amount more the one than the other.
And now you are already prepared to hear that psychology too is unable to solve the riddle of femininity. The explanation must no doubt come from
elsewhere [We regret that the Muslim world failed to deliver the Divine message to these scholars. Sigmund Freud is expecting the answer from certain other source. But we already know that this riddle has since been solved in the Divine Guidance we have put on the shelves for
'barakaats'. The universal law of living of creation in complementary division in the form of opposite pairs relevant to conscious level of each creative stage has been revealed at several places in the Holy
Quran, which shows its special significance. In Sura Ya-sin, it is thus revealed:
"Glory be to Him Who created all the sexual pairs of that which the earth growth, and of themselves, and of that which they know
not." (51: 49) Sigmund Freud and Frederick Engels misled a great part of humanity because of their ignorance of the nature of polarity, which they regarded as mechanical. Who is to be blamed for this? Certainly the Muslim world, particularly the Ullema are responsible for this lapse. Had both of these scholars who presented materialistic interpretation of life known the reality of polarity of sexes vividly revealed in the Holy Quran as spiritual in nature, the mankind would not have suffered morally and spiritually so colossal as it has.], and cannot come till we have learnt how in general the differentiation of living organism into sexes came about. We know nothing about it, yet the existence of two sexes is a most striking characteristic of organic life which distinguishes it sharply from inanimate nature."
We find similar surprise when we study the work of Fredrick Engels who constructed " Dialectics of nature" without knowing the very cause of polarity, which he regarded as mechanical in nature. Had he known the nature of polarity at the inorganic stages as complementary laid strictly on spiritual grounds, his whole dialectics would have given the true interpretation of the development of rational universe. Similarly had Freud known that the nature of division in sexes is complementary and that it is laid on spiritual values, his conclusion that gratification of sex instinct is the sole aim of human life would have proved absurd. We regret to say that the two big names who wrote two big works the very bias of which they confessed knew not misled the western nations to disastrous consequences.
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"Through this faculty nature gives laws, determines values and lays direction for developing each higher stage which succeed simultaneously on closing of the preceding stage"
We have learnt that as established by the classic physics, all forms of matter and their motion (energy) are strictly disciplined under laws and that the development of universe proceeds in one direction only. The most important question is that who determines the laws and values of a particular stage and gives direction for its development. The question is important because as we know the creation at whatever stage of development it may be, it cannot while in the making determine laws, values and direction on its own without prior understanding. Particularly in view of the fact that simultaneously on reaching its completion, the preceding stage is closed on it and, therefore, it can neither jump into a higher creative stage nor its fixed values can give law or determine direction of the higher stage which simultaneously starts as an independent stage at an infinite higher plan of consciousness. And if in spite of development of the universe in different stages (succeeded by different kind of consciousness) the universe behaves as a perfect rational order we are sure that certain Absolute all-pervading Self-conscious Entity exists which computerises the values, give laws and determines the succession for attaining certain overall purpose under His free Will.
When we study the discoveries made by the natural sciences in all the three major fields of development of universe, that is, the Physics, the Biology and the Psychology, we find that whenever in a particular creative stage, development retarded or went astray, nature brought forward new Laws in the Physical stages, Model Species at vegetable and Animal Stages and Prophets and Messengers at the Psychological Stage of man through the medium scientists call it the "Emergent Evolution" or "Emergent creation". For example, if we study the laws of matter as established on the Planet earth, we find that these laws have been designed consciously or unconsciously, in order to make possible the appearance and the development of life on Earth in the form and manner in which it did, because we find that exceptions to the general laws whenever they were of a vital importance have not been ignored. It is a general principle, for example, that all fluids contracts when cooled but water expands when cooled below 4°C with the result that ice is lighter than water and floats on its surface. But for this apparently insignificant fact, which is a departure from a general rule, organic life on earth would have been impossible, as all the oceans and lakes on this planet would have frozen from top to bottom. Such examples which can be multiplied reveal that creative processes remain active from within every stage and wherever so desired, the Nature remains too ready to lay direction and bring forward laws and values as suited for receiving higher creative orders determined by the Nature under overall purpose of creation. At the Vegetable and Animal Stages, we find laying of direction and creation of new laws and values in the form of different model species. At these stages whenever life slumbered or went astray Nature had bought new vegetable and animal species as model guides by creating sudden variations in them at each respective creative stage. The aim of the creation of species at the Animal stage was to accomplish perfect sense perceptions which the stage after passing through millions of different species ultimately perfected in the species which served as a physical organism of Man. Thus each species was a step towards attaining perfection of sense perceptions.
At the Psychological or Self-conscious Stage of man, Human Self came to know itself as distinct from all other creations. Self-consciousness grows in man through the knowledge of what is other than the Self. When a child comes into the world he has but a vague knowledge of himself and his surroundings. Gradually he begins to feel around him objects and persons who come most into contact with him. It is then that he knows of his own existence and can say "I". The knowledge of "I" id the beginning of Self-consciousness. As he gains in his knowledge of things other than himself, he gains in fact the knowledge of his own Self. In the beginning, the child's urge of self finds an expression in his attachment to objects capable of satisfying his instinctive desires of which the most important is the desire for eating. This is the first stage in the growth of his Self-consciousness. After some time - and this marks the beginning of the second stage in the growth of his Self-consciousness - he begins to appreciate, at first unconsciously and later on consciously, the greatness and goodness of some people around him, who are at the outset his parents and teachers. These people become the ideal of his Self. He loves to become like them. He is happy when he is able to win their approval and love and unhappy when he unable to do so. As he grows in years, the circle of his acquaintance is enlarged and he is able to get a more general notion of greatness and goodness based on the opinions of those people in the extended circle of his society, whom he admires or loves. With every extension of social relations his idea of beauty is refined, improved and enlarged a little more and Self-consciousness is correspondingly developed. This process of the growth of self-consciousness, with an improved knowledge of social relations, goes on forever. An ideal takes many forms. It may be one of our instinctive desires, that is, eating, drinking, or sexual pleasures. It may be a son, wife, friends, a boss, riches, fame, honour, property, profession, position, power or title. It may be narrowly altruistic, that is, the love of a tribe, a caste, a guild, a community, a race, a colour, or a nation. It may be of the nature of an ideology also. But no ideal is able to meet the full requirements of the urge of Self. Every ideal, therefore, yields place to another one after some time. The individual really loves something the beauty of, which excels that of every one of the ideals chosen by him from time to time. This means that a person's idea of beauty continues to develop forever.
The Self has the tendency to discard all ideals except one. When the child grows in years, he feels that there are other persons besides his parents, that is, his teachers, whom he can admire or love. A grown up person too remains under influence of many ideals for some time. In the beginning, these ideals are conflicting and inharmonious with one another. Gradually, they come into comparison with each other in the light of his internal desire for beauty with the ultimate result that they are more and more superseded and controlled by a single all-powerful idea, which becomes the ideal of the Self.
The ideal shifts from the concrete to the abstract. The Self yearns for something of which the beauty is permanent and unlimited. A man whose ideal is his child, for example, must feel that he is sure to be miserable in case he should die. Therefore, in his saner moments he tries to fix his attention on something more permanent as source of joy or consolation for him. This joy or consolation can never be complete unless the ideal becomes completely abstract. It is so because; the Human Self being a non-material, and living beyond space-time barriers knows no death. His ideal, therefore, must be abstract beauty like his own Self-living forever. No ideal except the Right Ideal is completely abstract. Every ideal prescribes laws, which become the effective moral code of the individual. Every person has to observe a code of do's and don'ts in order to achieve the ideal chosen by him.
The human society has developed the ideals more or less in the same way in which the individual does. The primitive man followed his own instinctive desires. Later on his desires became complicated and modified by his sympathies for the family. Subsequently, he learnt to sacrifice some of his personal and family interests for the general good of the tribe, which became his ideal in common with other members of the tribe. The tribes were many and they fought with one another till they discovered the truth that tribal warfare was suicidal and felt the need of combining under a king who, thereby, come to have a piece of land to rule. The king became the ideal of the subjects and was invested with a "divine right". But shortly the greed and tyranny of the king drew attention to the fact that no ideal could be good enough which neglected the welfare of the common people, which, of course, meant the people in the country. This shifted the ideal from king to the country and to the people in the country. It changed from the idea of the divine right of one person to the idea of the sanctity of the nation or to nationalism. The good of the nation required that it should rule itself; therefore, the ideal rose higher and came to be expressed by the words democracy, liberty, fraternity, equality and freedom, which terms, however, had still a limited sense because they were applicable to the members of a limited group of people, a nation, living within definite geographical limits. Till the end of First World War societies were at this stage of development throughout the world. But since that war, the ideals of the human society have taken an important step forward in their progress. From ideals they become ideologies or philosophies of life, that is, Fascism and Communism, each of which professed to be a complete explanation of existence. Thus we have come a step nearer the final ideology which will be a complete philosophy of life with universal sympathies. Like the ideals of the individuals, the ideals of human societies have advanced from the concrete to the abstract and from less perfect and less universal to the more perfect and the more universal.
The ideal group in which humanity is divided at present takes the place of species in which the animal was divided before the appearance of man. An ideal group behaves like a living organism and is subject to laws, which are similar to the laws of Biology. Every ideal group has the will to live and to grow indefinitely. Like an organism it has a purpose which is the ideal, meets with resistance in its efforts to achieve that purpose, exerts itself to overcome resistance, increases and enlarges its powers through exertion and becomes weak when it fails to exert itself or give up effort.
Every ideal is a challenge to every ideal and aims at getting power, extending the sphere of its influence and increasing the number of its helpers and adherents at the expense of all other ideals. Thus, ever since man has become conscious of himself, there has proceeded an unending war of ideal groups in the human society just as at the Animal Stage, species of different kind lived as ideal
groups [ The fact that at the Animal Stage , different kind of animal species lived as "ideal" groups as do the ideal groups of the mankind and continued to live through struggle until the stage accomplished its perfection in the model species in the physical form of Man is thus beautifully revealed in the Holy
Quran: "There is not an animal in the earth nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you. We have neglected nothing in the Book (of Our decrees). Then unto their Lord they will be
gathered." (6: 38) The sentence "Then unto their Lord they will be gathered" reveals that all kind of animals and colourful birds which were created under the Will of the Creator and struggled in right direction for earning values befitting to receive the higher creative stage of Man will continue to have their sense presentation in the next exalted universe as would do the other formations of the present universe such as the grandeur of the cosmic order as well as the charm and beauty manifested in the form of fascinating valleys, hills, rivers, trees, gardens etc. on the earth.]
and continued to live through struggle until the stage accomplished its perfection in the model species in the physical form of Man. Thus the whole history of Man is nothing but a record of the struggle of ideals.
Just as in the case of physical stages of development, Nature continued to guide and correct the path by bringing forward new laws and values and at the biological stages whenever life slumbered or went astray. Nature was bringing new species as model guides through what the evolutionists call emergent variations, similarly at the Self-conscious Stage of Man, the Creator did not leave the man to satisfy the urge of Self for seeking perfect ideal through his own whims and caprices. It is inconceivable that the Creator may have left inherent urge in the Human Self for seeking and loving Him in the form of ideals and at the same time He may not have provided the laws, values and direction with which to identify his love. The medium or the faculty through which mankind has from time to time been provided guidance is what is historically known as the institution of prophet-hood. The history stands witness that whenever communities went astray, the Creator through the process of Emergent Creation brought forward such men who rose to the highest level of Self-consciousness with special favour of the Creator and became inspired teacher and revealer of the Will of the Creator. While certain communities who took gratification of animal instincts as the only urge of the Self and sought pleasure through perversion of natural processes were removed from the face of the earth, the other communities who took heed to the teachings of the prophets continued to march towards right direction.
In the animal world, phenomenon of sudden variations of species came to an end with the appearance of the first man, that is, the first animal that was biologically complete enough to make possible the continuation of the process of development without the creation of any more species. One can assume that in the human world the corresponding phenomenon of prophet-hood must similarly come to an end with the appearance of the last prophet whose practical life is an application of the Right Ideal to all the fundamental aspects (that is, to the spiritual, social, ethical, legal, economic, military and political aspects) of natural human activity. Indeed the life example of such a prophet will embody all the essentials of that process by means of which life will actually be able to unfold and develop itself to realise its aspiration and actualise its potentialities in the future.
Man lives with his ideals. Even those who deny this inner psychic urge to their Self's, already live with the ideal; although their ideal may be low or based on negative values because of sheer ignorance of their own Self's. The Self can, however, attain permanent satisfaction only if its ideal is based on the attributes of the very Self. It is because real satisfaction cannot be achieved if the ideal lacks in the qualities and attributes as are embedded in the Self or Soul. For instance, Human Self enjoys freedom, it exists as a unit entity, it gives decisions, it is conscious of itself, it has the attributes of love and attraction, it is aware of eternity, etc. Accordingly the Right Ideal must have similar attributes as manifested by the Soul. It follows therefore, that only such Ideal or Ideology, which is based on the attributes of Human Self, can satisfy the Self to identify with. The ideal is half of the Human Self and it lives in Soul just like the two complementary parts, which live in the unit-seed.
If we take away the ideal, the Human Self cannot exist, that is, it can never know of itself as a Self-conscious Entity.
Although the human urge is to love and seek its Creator whose reflection he finds in his Self, yet as he is in the making, he may misuse the gift of freedom and adopt some wrong ideal. Mankind has been provided guidance by the Creator through the Prophets and Messengers created by Him through the law of Emergent Creation. Those people who follow different ideologies in fact live as different species of Human Self. According to the creative process, there is only one Right Ideology as the truth is only one but the forms of wrong are many. Therefore, the next stage of conscious light must build or start on the spiritual values attained by the followers of the Right Ideology. All the other species have to suffer as a natural consequence. In other words, those who remained blind in the present stage of creation
cannot [ The fact has been revealed in Holy Quran as under:
"Whoso is blind here will be blind in the Hereafter and yet further from the
road." (17: 72)]
see the light that will appear at the next higher stage. Such people will have to pass through great mental and spiritual agony to make them fit for reaching that conscious light. This is similar to the various species of animals in this world, which are consciously blind compared to the conscious light bestowed on man. The wrong ideologies, which negate the spiritual values of the Human Self, keep the Human Self-blind. The followers of such ideologies believe in the reverse order of creation. That is, they think themselves as the product of material forces. These people are prone to annihilate their Self's or Souls for ever and thus they may never attain the spiritual light in the next stage which has to build on the Human Self's only. This is the fundamental law of the creative process that life start and advance on right conscious values. The conscious light at the next higher stage is spiritual light of glory of the Creator and as such, only that part of humanity that had faith in the Creator and developed their Self's in the right direction can see the glory of the Creator at the next higher stage. It is high time, therefore, for those who have the gifts of worldly life to choose the Right Ideology for their smooth journey in the next tier of their life - the universe beyond. Let us remember that no man other than the men created under the natural process of Emergent Creation can give laws and determine ideologies for the mankind.
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The classic physics has shown that there does not exist absolute stationary frame of reference in the universe with which we can determine the absolute laws. In the absence of absolute reference, our reason, the main instrument of knowledge we possess, can tell us only about relative values. It cannot, therefore, give a definite answer as to whether there are absolute values, and if so, how can these be known. It tends to define values in subjective terms, only in relation to the particular experience of the individual. It amounts to denial of an objective system of values, valid for all men at all times. The laws, values and direction must come through the natural medium laid by Creator. We cannot deny such a medium, as without such a medium the universe, which follows laws and has developed in successive orders, could never be as it is.
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