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In the new creation each thing is in its proper place within the whole. Above all, both positive and negative serve the purposes of the One, that ‘blazing furnace’ of Christopher Alexander’s experience. The truth be told, it is precisely because the world WAS ready that everything unfolded as it did: the old consciousness served the One in equal measure as the new; but by negation which created the required conditions: a field for the third stage to begin and the task to be completed. This, and no other, has been the purpose behind such an obvious, and otherwise incomprehensible, defiance. 

  ‘If we are willing to recognise the ground [the underlying unity], whether we call it God or something else, and recognise that this light is behind all things which are at one with themselves, then we may say simply, that a thing is beautiful to the extent that it reveals this one.
  ‘A massive building or a small one…has life, is deep, affects us, moves us to tears, to awe, exactly to the extent that it is a picture of that God behind all things. If you see the watery pale yellow sunlight shining behind dark grey clouds…and you see in that light, the original light of the universe – then you may say, in still different terms, that sometimes, very occasionally, an artist who weaves a carpet, or who shapes a beautiful building, or who paints a tile, manages to make something which has this same light in it, where this same self is shining out… he has made something as close to a picture of God or self as it can be… (Ibid, p.316.) 

            In the just published Volume 3 of the series, The New Way, written 22 years ago, the poise is described that the artist of the new creation must attain if s/he is to be an instrument in the unfolding of superior forms of beauty and light. The following portion is taken from Chapter 17, page 234, entitled, Creativity and the Gnostic Being: 

  ‘Thus we come to an aspect of this study which deals with the creation of new art forms, new methods of communication, new cultural and technological expressions which evolve from an individual whose consciousness-being is poised in an axial balance and therefore who does not create in the midst of the turbulence that the lower levels of consciousness throw up when inspiration descends into these inferior and hitherto unillumined planes of consciousness.  The first prerequisite therefore is a realisation of one’s core, one’s true stable constant, one’s inner Chamber, - even as in the Mother’s Temple the inner Room holds that core from which the lines of a perfect equilibrium are extended to the outer form via Time and Space fields.
   ‘Admittedly this is a complex and difficult process. It is the goal of the integral yoga, - the harmonisation of all parts of the being, of all four planes of existence. It is the acquisition of a true centre, a real and not an illusory inner luminary around which the individual finds his or her balance and participates in the evolutionary movement nourished by this truth-conscious source and thus serving in the establishment of a society of gnosis. He remains no longer a tool for the perpetuation of the old mental creation that orbits the ego. Therefore the way in which to engage in the creative process in the effort to establish a new order is the one described throughout this volume: the [centre] of each individual must be found, which permits the aspirant to locate his or her place in the larger framework of the gnostic society, - on the basis of true collaboration and harmonious participation, adding to the community the light of a real inner worth and the power to give expression in life to this luminous soul-power.
    ‘The supreme difficulty lies in the fact that the human race, as a whole, orbits a void in the centre of its collective consciousness, which in turn is representative of the void in the consciousness-being of each individual. Energies collapse into this void at a certain point in the march of Time…which is the real dilemma of the human race, the crux of the problem of karma, for this collapse and subsequent compression defies change.

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