“Having pervaded this entire universe with a fragment of myself, I remain.” The pull of that overshadowing “remaining Self” is what draws the little fragment back to its originating source.
In relation to integration we can say that unity has to do with a relationship in consciousness. Life is One-no more distinctions, but only identification. The whole identifies itself with the parts of itself. Integration leads to synthesis and emerges in units of consciousness provided that these units acknowledge the presence of the one life in each part. Because we deal with the whole, synthesis has to do with the universal. All separation is overcome by it. All opposites disappear in the one. Joy and sadness, good and evil disappear when they are recognised as having only a temporary existence. The inner and outer life fuse. All that come to be within the original thoughtform of the planetary Logos is gradually brought into synthesis by the planetary Purpose. But this occurs in many phases and steps of integration; each time a broader and larger synthesis is brought about, from synthesis on the level of atoms to synthesis on the level of consciousness to the general identification with the Whole. This takes place because the instinctive inclination to fuse and unite is part of the entire universe. This expresses itself in the many societies, unions, associations, groups, and alliances. This instinct of integration is the guarantee of ultimate synthesis.
How does man fit into this process? Like any separate principle, we are apprentices in Synthesis and integration. We learn to evolve in our own bodies, swimming in our own information that we seize and reconstruct as fully and as incompletely as is our own understanding of ourselves. this ideas we grasp all have the goal of guiding us toward our higher reality. As for our thoughts, they are distorted reflections of ourselves, that reality from which we are abstracted. Man is the constant expression of the synthesis of his own thoughts and when they put him in alignment with the reality of The Thought that contains them, he becomes more integrated. What we are, the quality of our expression, depends entirely on the quality of all our thoughts. All are obligatorily perceptions of ourselves, as much as the idea we have of our neighbour, the sun, or of an abstract concept that we project incessantly without realizing it.
To succeed on this Path of Return in an efficient accelerated way we have to make use of the will which is latent in all of us. This aspect of will is present at the centre of the causal body. But because for the moment it is still impossible to reveal that Jewel in the Lotus, we have to limit ourselves to the use of the will of the personality. This is related to the will of the soul through the Petals of sacrifice in the lotus of the soul. One of the qualities of the personal will is perseverance. It is this quality we can call on and use to walk on the Path of Return. Together with another quality of the will, that of determination, we can bring the purpose of synthesis and integration even nearer. This is because the ultimate characteristic of will is the expression of the self that produces synthesis. In this way, at the end of the Path of Return, synthesis is reached by the use of constant effort. The separation at the departure of the hero has been nullified and the separated parts are fused again into ONE.
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