Planes and dimensions of Being

Absolute	The Lurianic "world of points" the atmistic supramental (inconscient)	Aurobindo's "third supramental poise" (producing duality)	Aurobindo's "second supramental poise" (producing polarity)		Aurobindo's "first supramental poise" (Transcenden)
Noetic/Divine	noetic "elemental essence" (involutionary)	gods or archetypes	gods or archetypes	Cosmic Divine Consciousness: the Shuddha tattwas	Manifesting Godhead Shiva tattwa
Noeric/Ideational	ideational "elemental essence" (involutionary)	individual idea-forms (thought-forms)	collective idea-forms - archetypes that move hstory	cosmic archetypes ideational gods
Psychic	psychic "elemental essence" (involutionary)	the spirit body and the "astral plane" psychic or occult worlds	the large psychic - the "collective unconscious" psychic or occult worlds	cosmic archetypes psychic gods
Physical	the physical universe as a vast machine; Newtonian physics, Laplacian determinism	the physical universe as consisting of holistic entities	the physical universe as a network of interrelated energies; paradoxes of quantum physics, etc	the Cosmic physical - consciousness of the physical universe as a whole (anima mundi)
	Atomistic	Individual	Transpersonal	Cosmic	Absolute

Substance-Being page (Physical to Noetic)

Dimension of Being page (Atomistic to Universal)

page uploaded 27 May 1998
modified 15 July
revised again 10 November
modified & renamed on 20 December 1999