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An Introduction to Gnosis,
 the Supramental & Integral Yoga
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The Real Idea of the World
  •     Maha Yogi Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) taught that inherent and gestating in Matter, Life and Mind was a Supramental or Divine Gnosis - an ALL-Organizing Source and Force (ALL-Soul) whose essence is Satchidananda (Truth, Consciousness, and Bliss). He also called it the Real Idea of the World, as opposed to the limited mental idea of the world. He considered this Real Idea to be the Original Seed and inevitable Flower of the material creation – the starting point and the end, the alpha and the omega of the cycles of being.


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The Function and Limitation of the Mind
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The Essence of the Supermind
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The Symbol of the Sun
  • The Sun, and its ancient symbol, is a symbol of the Supramental or Gnostic Being.
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Knowledge of the Whole

  • A Discovery of the Hidden One/Seed Force which Unifies the Whole
  • A Recovery of the Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Truth of Being
  • A Recovery of the “Lost Sun” or Solar Consciousness of the Vedas
  • An Apocalypse (i.e Uncovering of the Light) as describe in Revelations.
  • A Massive Evolutionary shift in Consciousness & Expression of Consciousness
  • A True Regeneration of our Experience on Earth, based on Real Knowledge of the Soul and its Purpose.
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The Big Bang of Gnosis:
 The Loss of Real Knowledge of the One Self & Seeds of Division
  •      We have a cacophonous myriad of seemingly random unconnected individuals, events, sciences, religions, arts, countries, cultures, histories, often at odds, at war or competition for limited energy, resources, recognition and love. Individual interests take us off on  countless trajectories, uncoordinated, energetically inefficient, MOVING AWAY FROM THE CENTER. Talk of Holistic or Integral Studies is largely hollow due to insufficient Knowledge of the Whole.
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Understanding The Seed
  •    A Seed contains the Whole of a creation in its entirety, it contains ALL its STAGES of growth, in condensed form. The Seed takes hold in the Earth, on the Earth, and reveals its potential via a Journey in Time, fueled by the light of the Sun. The Seed determines what will be Seen in Time. A Seer or Sage might be considered as one who knows what is in the Seed, one who knows how it will unfold in Time by a succession of stages.
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Seeds of DiVision: Our Predicament
  •     Our current experience & civilization is one of degeneration and unsustainability. Our seeing is limited (darkened or obscured) and we experience ourselves as being devoured/killed by TIME - by Chronos who eats his Children. Our process has been one of division and multiplication. In this process there has been an apparent LOSS of connection to the ORIGIN, SEED or INTENSION of our Being and our Journey.  We have proceeded, conscious of and privy to only an infinitesimal fraction of the true Energy and Value of our Being.


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The Seed & The Flower
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The Seed and the Whole
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Luminous Seed of a Sustainable Being
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Part II
  •    A look into the Supramental Cosmology:


  • ‘The symbol powers of number and form, and the secret code of the history of the world’
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Rhythms & Meters of the Stars
– Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book 1, Canto 5
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The 3, 6 and 9
  • ‘If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9 then you would have a key to the universe.’
  • - Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
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The 9 Number System & Vedic Knowledge
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The Individual, the Universal, & the Transcendent
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The Triple Status of Supramind
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OM is the vibration (expression) of the Triply-Formulated One
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Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, & Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet
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1 + 1 + 1
  • ‘When we are able to put together
  • 1 + 1 + 1
  •  we will have produced a new species on Earth’
  • - Satprem*, Evolution II
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Numerology – a Key of Unity
  • ‘In Numerology, all numbers above 9 are reduced to a single digit, some single digit from 1 to 9. This begins with the next higher number, 10, which, by adding its component parts, 1 + 0 = 1.


  •    ‘Gurdjieff referred to numerology as theosophical addition, that is, "the definition of numbers consisting of two or more digits by the sum of those digits." To people who do not understand the symbolism of numbers, this method of synthesizing numbers seems to be absolutely arbitrary and to lead nowhere.


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Numbers & the Supramental Action
  •          The Mother’s Agenda  5 February 1969
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The Mother’s 5 February 1969 Vision  (cont.)
  • ‘… this has a very strong action. That is, it COMMANDS action of the Earth; but it is not submissive, tied to something below that holds it: It is like this (a gesture of a descent that imposes itself). This constantly received the Will and the Power of action from above – not ‘from above’, it is not above, it is … (the Mother makes a sort of gesture signifying that it is ‘everywhere inside’) … ‘superior’ in the true sense of the word.
  • And this body* RECEIVES things … Suddenly it felt the need to know what effect that Supraman Consciousness would have on this consciousness here. How would it function? And then, for you I thought: “Yes, and how does this atmosphere work?” And it is for this reason that I had this experience (of the numbers) … It came because of that, that was the beginning of the experience. It came in order to draw my attention to the fact that I had to know it … It is strange . . . .’
  • Perhaps it is the beginning of something interesting.’


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The Figure 9 & the Supramental Consiousness
  • ‘The whole is brought with lightning speed towards the consciousness that will be this Consciousness of the point and of the whole at the same time. (long silence ... Mother completes the copy of her note)


  • There, I’ll write today’s date.


  • Today is the 19th.


  • 19 November 1969: supramental consciousness.


  • The first descent of the supramental Force  was on a 29th.* And this is on a 19th. The figure 9 has something to do with all this.


  • ... There are so many things we don’t know!’   - The Mother**
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Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet – as the 3rd
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The 9 & the 12
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Binary or Triadic Structure of Supramental Descent
  • There is a residual core of students of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, who hold on to a 1 + 1 or BINARY formula for the Supramental Descent and find it unlikely, preposterous, delusional or even blasphemous to suggest that:


  • There is a THIRD element or Triadic             Structure of the Descent.
  • The Supramental Yoga would involve         Numbers, Time and the Zodiac as PNB has taught.
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The Mother’s Symbol
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The Fixed Signs
  •      But in terms of the zodiac, the four petals are aligned with the four fixed signs of the zodiac, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. Emphasis of the evolutionary/cosmological significance of these four signs is repeated throughout history including in:
  • Vishnu’s 3-Step journey to Lion, Bull and Man (riding an Eagle)* – Rig Veda
  • The Mithraic Tauroctany (Mitra, the Friend – Aquarius), slays the Bull
  • The ‘mythological’ beast the Sphinx which is only a combination of two or more fixed signs of the zodiac.
  • Mention of the four beasts in St. John’s Revelation as well as in Ezekiel: The Book of the Prophet.


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The Mother’s Temple
  • The Mother’s Temple was to be constructed of
  • 12 NINE meter
  • pillars surrounding a central globe


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The 9 & 12 in the Rig Veda
  • Twelve spokes, one wheel, navels three.
    Who can comprehend this?
    On it are placed together
    three hundred and sixty like pegs.
    They shake not in the least.
    - Dirghatama, Rg Veda 1.164.48


  • A seven-named horse does draw
    this three-naved wheel...
    Seven steeds draw the seven-wheeled chariot...
    Wise poets have spun a seven-strand tale
    around this heavenly calf, the Sun.
    - Dirghatama, Rg Veda 1.164.1-5


  • The Enneagram ‘wheel’ is constructed of the 3, 6, 9 Trinity        The strand connecting the other numbers is formulated by dividing ONE divided by SEVEN (= 0.142857 repeated infinitely).
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The 12 & the 360
in the ‘Gospel of Judas’
  • ‘The twelve aeons of the twelve luminaries constitute their father, with six heavens for each aeon, so that there are seventy‑two heavens for the seventy‑two luminaries, and for each [50] [of them five] firmaments, [for a total of] three hundred sixty.’ – Jesus
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Seed of Gnosis
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The Absolute




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The Object of All Yoga
  • ‘No matter whether by knowledge, works, love or any other means, to become aware of this truth of our being, to realize it, to make it effective here or elsewhere is the object of all yoga.
  • But the passage is long and the labour arduous before we can look on him with eyes that see true, and still longer and more arduous must be our endeavor if we would rebuild ourselves in his true image.’



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The Absolute - The One
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Power of the One
  • ‘… That now superconscient Transcendence is a Power as well as an Existence. The supramental Transcendence is not a vacant Wonder, but an Inexpressible which contains for ever all essential things that have issued from it; it holds them there in their supreme everlasting reality and their own characteristic absolutes …’       (continued)
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The Diminishing Degradation
  •   ‘…The diminution, division, degradation that create here the sense of an unsatisfactory puzzle, a mystery of Maya, themselves diminish and fall from us in our ascension, and the Divine Powers assume their real forms and appear more and more as the terms of a Truth in process of realization here.’ – Sri Aurobindo
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Yoga: Recognition of What Has Been Born
  •     The Subject or Yoga at hand is the Recognition of WHAT Has Been Born in our midst – the seeding, birth or beginning of a new civilization, organized by knowers or seers of the One in the many faces of the Whole. This civilization (unlike our own) is fated to remember the Absolute in all movements and events in Time and Space, and in all relations. Its public is fated to a sustainability based on unbroken connection between the Individual soul, the Cosmic movements, and the Transcendent Core/Sol (Absolute).


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The Shift from Mental to Supramental
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Integral Yoga: Integration of all the Parts of the Whole
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Integral Yoga: Learning to See the Whole Movement
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The Supramental Fate of Earth:
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Om Shanti