The Manifest Godhead
There are a number of hypostases of the Godhead and the Absolute beyond
the expanded individual level of existence. In Kashmir
Shaivite metaphysics these are referred to as the Shanti-kala
("Division of Reality pertaining to supreme Peace") or Shuddha ("Pure"
=Divine) principles represent the state of omnipotent Cosmic Consciousness.
Here Shakti, the dynamic power of Shiva, manifests as the universe through
the cosmic polarisation into Shiva
and Shakti, male and female, transcendent and creative. Gnostic
and Kabbalistic teachings
likewise refer to the polarisation of the male and female Cosmic-Divine
principle (in Gnosticism this is called the syzygy) from the one
transcendent Absolute. In
Sri Aurobindo's
terminology this is the level of the Overmind.
In Ken Wilber's
involution-evolution
psychology this would seem to be the "Low
Causal" and "High
Causal" states.
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