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account of emanation, account of how [[Primary Forms]] work their way down from the top into creation. account of the "Art of Creation" in other words.
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	In this chapter Carpenter dances around the idea of a cosmic [[Fabric of Consciousness]]		In this chapter Carpenter dances around the idea of a cosmic [[Fabric of Consciousness]], but nevertheless comes down firmly in favour of the reality of its existence.

	===The Three Stages of Consciousness===		===The Three Stages of Consciousness===

	In which Edward Carpenter outlines a three-stage model for the evolution of Consciousness in humanity from [[Simple Consciousness]] through [[Self Consciousness]] and finally to [[Cosmic Consciousness]].		In which Edward Carpenter outlines a three-stage model for the evolution of Consciousness in humanity from [[Simple Consciousness]] through [[Self Consciousness]] and finally to [[Cosmic Consciousness]].

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	===The Devils and ~~teh~~ Idols===		===The Devils and the Idols===

			"The devils are very real powers and centres of human energy and vitality. But yet there is a difference; and the difference may perhaps be broadly defined thus—that the Gods are powers making for Life and Harmony, and the Devils are powers making for Discord and Death.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers . Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition."</ref>

	~~[[Is a book by~~:~~:Edward Carpenter\| ]]~~		"There are centres in the human body and mind which make for Corruption"<Ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition."</ref>

	~~===The Gods as Dwelling in~~ the ~~Physiological~~ Centers~~===~~		This is an extension of the basic argument, but with the imposition of Christian sensibility, that there is deep within us some "Centers...which make for Corruption." To be sure, there is some truth to this. No doubt it is easier to blame the "devils and demons" for the potentials we find within ourselves, but again, this is a superstitious oversimplification. If we act badly it is because of [[Toxic Socialization]]. If we elevate things to the status of archetype, it is not necessarily because these things represent physiology, apparitions of the race life, or even [[Primary Forms]] (though this may be the case), it could be because human hands have constructed and elevated the archetypes thus.

	~~===The Devils~~ and the ~~Idols===~~		When discussing [[Archetypes]], [[Primary Forms]], myths, and so on, it is important to remember that these are always constructed by human hands and presented by humans with interests that do not always fall on the humanitarian side of things.

	===Beauty and Duty===		===Beauty and Duty===

			Carpenter notes that Beauty and Duty are two of the "great formative Ideas" (i.e. [[Primary Forms]]) which work their way down.


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Mike Sosteric: /* The Gods as Apparitions of the Race-Life */

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	<blockquote class="quotation">If we look upon the vast race-life as the manifestation of one great aspect of the World-Self or Ego...then we can understand how through these forms we may enter into the race-life and the great Ideas that inspire it, and come one step nearer to the world-self.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition. </ref></blockquote>		<blockquote class="quotation">If we look upon the vast race-life as the manifestation of one great aspect of the World-Self or Ego...then we can understand how through these forms we may enter into the race-life and the great Ideas that inspire it, and come one step nearer to the world-self.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition. </ref></blockquote>

	<blockquote>The idealization of the Warrior growing through successive generations obscurely but powerfully in the primitive Latin folk, suddenly—perhaps through the appearance of an actual man who fulfilled the ideal to an extraordinary degree—may have taken definite shape and name in the figure of Mars;<Ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref>		<blockquote>The idealization of the Warrior growing through successive generations obscurely but powerfully in the primitive Latin folk, suddenly—perhaps through the appearance of an actual man who fulfilled the ideal to an extraordinary degree—may have taken definite shape and name in the figure of Mars;<Ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref></blockquote>

	His is an interesting and sophisticated analysis, a good attempt at trying to explain why some people believe in "Gods," and while he is certainly correct that there are [[Ideas]] which originate from location with [[The Fabric]], and while he is right to note these archetypes pass into manifestation, he seems to miss the fact that humans are not passive or unconscious bystanders, and that they (particularly elites interested in controlling [[Mass Consciousness]], actively and consciousness manipulate archetypes.<ref>For this see Mike Sosteric, ''The Sociology of Tarot'' which shows how the elites used the Western Tarot to manipulate archetypes and impose their own [[System]] friendly meanings.</ref> In other words, the notion of Gods doesn't emerge from the "[[Race Consciousness]]" solely (if at all), it emerges from artistic/creative activity of humans, often working for elites. Is it a		His is an interesting and sophisticated analysis, a good attempt at trying to explain why some people believe in "Gods," and while he is certainly correct that there are [[Ideas]] which originate from location with [[The Fabric]], and while he is right to note these archetypes pass into manifestation, he seems to miss the fact that humans are not passive or unconscious bystanders, and that they (particularly elites interested in controlling [[Mass Consciousness]], actively and consciousness manipulate archetypes.<ref>For this see Mike Sosteric, ''The Sociology of Tarot'' which shows how the elites used the Western Tarot to manipulate archetypes and impose their own [[System]] friendly meanings.</ref> In other words, the notion of Gods doesn't emerge from the "[[Race Consciousness]]" solely (if at all), it emerges from artistic/creative activity of humans, often working for elites. Is it a

	===The Gods as Dwelling in the Physiological Centers===		===The Gods as Dwelling in the Physiological Centers===

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	===The Gods as Apparitions of the Race-Life===		===The Gods as Apparitions of the Race-Life===

			A chapter essentially on archetypes, where they come from, and why they are so powerful. Suggests that archetypes originate at the highest levels of [[Universal Being]] but descend through a [[World Self]] and a [[Race Self]] until actuating in the human brain and finally, on the 'outer side...take form and structure." Along the way, he notes, new archetypes develop as a consequence of "racial experiences" (warrior archetype for example). These racial experiences become the "gods" associated with early spiritual beliefs.

			<blockquote class="quotation">If we look upon the vast race-life as the manifestation of one great aspect of the World-Self or Ego...then we can understand how through these forms we may enter into the race-life and the great Ideas that inspire it, and come one step nearer to the world-self.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition. </ref></blockquote>

			<blockquote>The idealization of the Warrior growing through successive generations obscurely but powerfully in the primitive Latin folk, suddenly—perhaps through the appearance of an actual man who fulfilled the ideal to an extraordinary degree—may have taken definite shape and name in the figure of Mars;<Ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref>

			His is an interesting and sophisticated analysis, a good attempt at trying to explain why some people believe in "Gods," and while he is certainly correct that there are [[Ideas]] which originate from location with [[The Fabric]], and while he is right to note these archetypes pass into manifestation, he seems to miss the fact that humans are not passive or unconscious bystanders, and that they (particularly elites interested in controlling [[Mass Consciousness]], actively and consciousness manipulate archetypes.<ref>For this see Mike Sosteric, ''The Sociology of Tarot'' which shows how the elites used the Western Tarot to manipulate archetypes and impose their own [[System]] friendly meanings.</ref> In other words, the notion of Gods doesn't emerge from the "[[Race Consciousness]]" solely (if at all), it emerges from artistic/creative activity of humans, often working for elites. Is it a

			===The Gods as Dwelling in the Physiological Centers===

			This chapter is an extension of the last, noting (and anticipating Jung), that another cause of [[archetypes]] is the repetitive experiences of our ancestors, and the basic physiology of our bodies.

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			Consider for a moment the latter. How many millions of times has the great Sun risen on our primitive ancestors after the dark and perilous night, with unspeakable sense of joy, relief, comfort? How continually has this sense grown, with reverberant intensity in the successive generations?—till at last in some more than usually subtle or sensitive soul it has broken into a strange consciousness of a Presence-the presence, in fact, within that soul, of the myriad life and emotion of those that have gone before.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition. </ref></blockquote>

			The chapter is interesting because Carpenter uses it to elevate the human body and physical existence so something sacred and divine. "The body is not vile. It is not only a Temple of God, but it is a collection of temples."<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref>.

			It's also interesting for his rather direct statement on how creation works.

			<blockquote class="quotation">The gods are in that sense real emanations and expressions of the World-self. And again each individual of the race...does through [the] body ... at times enter into the race-consciousness, and become aware of these powers working within him and the race.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref></blockquote>

			The forces become interpreted/perceived as "God/Gods/superhuman powers" because of the "lame effort of uncultured minds...to picture and interpret the cosmic facts experienced."<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref> He may have a point here, but I think also we have to include the reality of interference by [[Agents of Consciousness]].

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	Implicit discussion of [[Formation]], how Creation moves from Ideas (Platonic forms) in [[Consciousness]] to physical creation.		Implicit discussion of [[Formation]], how Creation moves from Ideas (Platonic forms) in [[Consciousness]] to physical creation.

	<blockquote class="quotation">Plato, as is well known, gave to Ideas in some such sense as this the greatest import. They existed before the world, and the world was created after their pattern (see the “Timasus”). And we can see, from what has already been said, that they are somehow implicit in the Ego before all experience. As they descend into operation and consciousness within the Man, they shape his life and form, and through him again the outer world.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref>		<blockquote class="quotation">Plato, as is well known, gave to Ideas in some such sense as this the greatest import. They existed before the world, and the world was created after their pattern (see the “Timasus”). And we can see, from what has already been said, that they are somehow implicit in the Ego before all experience. As they descend into operation and consciousness within the Man, they shape his life and form, and through him again the outer world.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref> </blockquote>

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			Discussion of archetypes (what he calls Ideas). Platonic forms, ideas that exist prior to physical creation and that shape.

			Implicit discussion of [[Formation]], how Creation moves from Ideas (Platonic forms) in [[Consciousness]] to physical creation.

			<blockquote class="quotation">Plato, as is well known, gave to Ideas in some such sense as this the greatest import. They existed before the world, and the world was created after their pattern (see the “Timasus”). And we can see, from what has already been said, that they are somehow implicit in the Ego before all experience. As they descend into operation and consciousness within the Man, they shape his life and form, and through him again the outer world.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref>


			<blockquote class="quotation">Plato, as is well known, gave to Ideas in some such sense as this the greatest import. They existed before the world, and the world was created after their pattern (see the “Timasus”). And we can see, from what has already been said, that they are somehow implicit in the Ego before all experience. As they descend into operation and consciousness within the Man, they shape his life and form, and through him again the outer world.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition. </ref></blockquote>

			In LP nomenclature, a discussion of [[Archetypes]] (Ideas), [[Formation]], and the [[Emanation of Creation]] through the gradual realization of the ideas about creation original in Consciousness (i.e. the manifestation of [[The Word]]).

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	===The Three Stages of Consciousness===		===The Three Stages of Consciousness===
	In which Edward Carpenter outlines a three-stage model for the evolution of Consciousness in humanity from [[Simple Consciousness]] through [[Self Consciousness]] and finally to [[Cosmic Consciousness]].		In which Edward Carpenter outlines a three-stage model for the evolution of Consciousness in humanity from [[Simple Consciousness]] through [[Self Consciousness]] and finally to [[Cosmic Consciousness]].

	===The Self and its Affiliations===		===The Self and its Affiliations===

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	In this context, Carpenter calls for "a restoration of the harmony between (roughly speaking) the Mind and the Body, the Brain and the great Sympathetic, the conscious and the subconscious Man.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers . Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref> -- [[Reconnection]] in other words. Interestingly, he sees "Hindus" and "Orientals" (Vedic and Buddhist spirituality) as providing a way back. He also suggests that the "upgrowth" of Women "will ere long make possible a Humanity which shall harmonize even in each individual the masculine and the feminine elements, and bring back at last the Brain and the self-conscious mind into relation with that immense storehouse of age long knowledge and power.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref>		In this context, Carpenter calls for "a restoration of the harmony between (roughly speaking) the Mind and the Body, the Brain and the great Sympathetic, the conscious and the subconscious Man.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers . Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref> -- [[Reconnection]] in other words. Interestingly, he sees "Hindus" and "Orientals" (Vedic and Buddhist spirituality) as providing a way back. He also suggests that the "upgrowth" of Women "will ere long make possible a Humanity which shall harmonize even in each individual the masculine and the feminine elements, and bring back at last the Brain and the self-conscious mind into relation with that immense storehouse of age long knowledge and power.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref>

			In which Edward Carpenter plays with notions of ego, attempting to distinguish [[Spiritual Ego]] from [[Bodily Ego]], attempting to document the "evolutionary" emergence of [[Bodily Ego]] as an interim step towards [[Connection]] (what he calls [[Cosmic Consciousness]]). Note, Carpenter sees this in evolutionary terms, thinking that the bodily ego, what he calls the "Me" or the [[Elusive Self]] must develop before it can become "large enough...to reflect the universality of the I,"<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref> On the LP we would suggest that [[Toxic Socialization]] damages and diminishes the [[Physical Unit]] to the point where it cannot "reflect" the strength and power of the [[Spiritual Ego]]

			Recognizes the existence of [[The Fabric of Consciousness]]

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			The ground of the universe must be one [[Universal Self]], or one [[Eternal City]] of selves, ever united and ever arriving at the knowledge of their union with each other.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref>
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			I shall now therefore assume, both on account of the direct evidence of the Cosmic Consciousness, and because the indirect evidence of the ordinary thought and consciousness points in the same direction, that there is a real universal self—a one [[Ebsolute Ego]] and knower, underlying all existences—the Tat ivam asi of the Upanishads, the essence and life of the whole universe, and true self of every creature. And I think we are justified in assuming this, because clearly the evidence of the ordinary consciousness, however long we work at the problem, can never carry us a step farther than it does now; while on the other hand the direct evidence of the Cosmic Consciousness is added to by fresh witnesses every day, and daily becomes more conclusive.<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref>
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			Tries to prove the existence of the [[Universal Self]]. Cites the direct evidence provided by [[Witnesses]] and the indirect evidence provide by ordinary thought.

			Tries to figure out why, if there is a Universal Self, if the Elusive Self is only a disconnected part, why are not connected. "If the great Self is in each of us, and is the ego of every thought, why do we not know it so?"<ref>Carpenter, Edward. The Art of Creation: Essays on the Self and Its Powers. Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.</ref> Not surprisingly, he sees it in evolutionary/development terms. We individually have to be developed/evolved to a point where we are capable of expressing a fuller measure of Universal Self. Only when "Me" is large enough to contain "I" can we experience [[Cosmic Consciousness]] (i.e. connection). His account is a classic [[Fool in School]] account.

			Of course, the [[LP]] posits [[Toxic Socialization]] and damage to the [[Physical Unit]] as the proximate cause of [[Disconnection]]. That is, it is not because we are not evolved enough, developed enough, tested enough that we cannot [[Connect]], it is because we are damaged by [[Toxic Socialization]]

	===Platonic Ideas and Heredity===		===Platonic Ideas and Heredity===