' Becoming Self Aware '...

Manifestation implies the necessity of manifesting.

But it might be objected that any sort of necessity existing in the divine equally implies its insufficiency.

The answer is that the number One may become aware of itself as being one only by becoming aware of the presence of Two--itself and another.

But the figure Nought is under no compulsion.

Here we have a mathematical hint towards understanding the riddle of manifestation.

Mind as Void is the supreme inconceivable unmanifesting ultimate whereas the World-Mind is forever throwing forth the universe-series as a second, an "other" wherein it becomes self-aware.



-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 3: World-Mind and ``Creation'' > # 60
-- Perspectives > Chapter 27: World-Mind > # 26 Paul Brunton