Involution

The Involution-Evolution Arc
The yin-yang diagram shows reality as a circle. The Involution-Evolution Arc in contrast is linear (although it can also form a circle (left). Spirit descends or falls into Matter, then ascends back to Spirit.

Involution -- The process whereby spirit descends into matter, its polar opposite.

Involution and Evolution. Theogony--The Absolute according to Wronski, Lacuria, and the Tarot--Theogony of divers Religions identical with that of the Tarot-Summary. Androgony--Cosmogony.

This involution of the life of the LOGOS as the ensouling force in every particle, and its successive enwrapping in the spirit-matter of every plane, so that the materials of each plane have within them in a hidden, or latent condition, ...

The One behind the Many: The Purporsive Evolution and Involution of Consciousness in the Universe
A Science of Consciousness, the Semeiotics of Mind and the Elements of Personal Philosophy. : What It All Means
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The process of cosmic manifestation is considered to have two phases: The fist is involution, during which billions of units of spiritual consciousness, called "monads," emerge from the One undifferentiated Source.

The devas avail themselves of the elemental forces, and the deva builders control these blindly working forces to perform their involutionary functions. The devas in their constructive work produce cohesion, harmony and beauty out of elemental chaos.

Initiation is the opposite of involution, but this "going down into matter" is necessary. Initiation is selective as long as the descent is not finished for a great percentage of humanity.

But man is the miniature summation of the Universe; within him material evolution and spiritual involution proceed simultaneously and interlocked.

its immersion signifies the descent of rational, organized consciousness into the illusionary, impermanent realm of irrational, mortal ignorance. Both the sinking of Atlantis and the Biblical story of the "fall of man" signify spiritual involution--a ...

nor in a particular tree, building, or mountain: it is everywhere, in every atom of the visible as of the invisible Cosmos, in, over, and around every invisible atom and divisible molecule; for IT is the mysterious power of evolution and involution, ...

See also: Spirit, World, Spiritual, Ritual, Philo