Involution Quotes

“But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can give
impudence to his betters!”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

“The Big Bang is an involution event, signifying a transition from a higher state to a lower state. God splinters from a conscious unity into an unconscious plurality of countless individual cells. This is “the Fall”. It was not Man that fell, it was God. The God Mirror split into myriad shards, and now they all have to be fitted together again, so that God can once again see himself reflected and know exactly who he is. The evolution of the Cosmos is designed to achieve exactly this. At the Big Bang, God totally loses consciousness. We might even say that God dies. It then has to resurrect itself, which equates to completely restoring consciousness.”
― Thomas Stark, The Stairway to Consciousness: The Birth of Self-Awareness from Unconscious Archetypes

“So as evolution progresses, consciousness becomes more involved in matter: living beings become a fuller expression of spirit and move closer to the source from which they, and all things, came.”
― Steve Taylor, Spiritual Science: Why Science Needs Spirituality to Make Sense of the World

“The Big Bang, the shattering of the cosmic mirror, is an involution event (a higher state gives rise to a lower state), while the Big Crunch, the reconstitution of the mirror, is the culmination of evolution (a lower state gives rise to a higher state).”
― Harry Knox, God Is a Hive Mind: The Cellular Divinity

“Assigner of the ordeal and the path
Who chooses in this holocaust of the soul
Death, fall and sorrow as the spirit’s goads,
The dubious godhead with his torch of pain
Lit up the chasm of the unfinished world
And called her to fill with her vast self the abyss.

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― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol