Chapter 3The Meaning and Purpose of Avatarhood · Human Judgments of the Divine

Chapter One

The Meaning and Purpose

of Avatarhood Surely for the earth consciousness it is so [the very fact that the Divine manifests himself is the greatest of all splendours]. Consider the obscurity here and what it would be if the Divine did not directly intervene and the Light of Lights did not break out of the obscurity — for that is the meaning of the manifestation.

* An Incarnation is the Divine Consciousness and Being manifest-ing through a physical body. It is possible from any plane.

* It is the omnipresent cosmic Divine who supports the action of the universe; if there is an Incarnation, it does not in the least diminish the cosmic Presence and the cosmic action in the three or thirty million universes.

* The descending Power chooses its own place, body, time for the manifestation; something of that is foreseen by those who have vision but not the whole.

* An Avatar is supposed to be from birth. Each soul at its birth takes from the cosmic mind, life and matter to shape a new external personality for himself. What prevents the Divine from doing the same? What is continued from birth to birth is the inner being.

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