If He did it we may surmise He had very good reasons, but it is His business not ours. ‘All life is One’ has chosen to reflect itself in countless ways. All is One in essence, in Being but in becoming, in manifestation, in that process of life, there are countless many. Here comes a jump, leaving aside intermediate steps which you can find out – ‘All is One’ is a deep metaphysical truth at that level, but unfortunately many bring down that wonderful reality at human levels, or other levels in manifestation where it simply does not operate, and many of the so-called metaphysical movements, and also some Oriental approaches don’t take into consideration the basic difference. For instance, certain chemical laws at the atomic level are no more valid at the subatomic level but they are not abolished, not superseded only at the other level other laws work. “There are various levels of reality, or if you like a modern term – energy fields. Let us see how he envisions these levels(Undated 2): This is what Lovejoy (1933) calls “The Great Chain of Being”, which is what Assagioli (Undated 2) is referring to when he writes about “the various levels of reality or energy fields” which, for him, form “an essential part of psychosynthesis”. These worlds – whether conceived of as inner or outer worlds – consist of different ontological levels of reality and frequencies of energy within creation. The diagram can also be seen as a depiction of what Jung described as the collective unconscious, even though Jung didn’t differentiate between the different levels – however, Assagioli (1967) did, remarking: “The collective unconscious is a vast world stretching from the biological to the spiritual level, in which therefore distinctions of origin, nature, quality and value must be made.” Diagram 2 shows how the various traditions have depicted these inner worlds. The scholar Huston Smith (1976) explains that these inner worlds have been called many names in the traditions – heavens, lokas, spheres of existence – and most of the world’s spiritual and religious traditions have embraced such hierarchical or holarchical conceptions of existence. 250 ): “The core of the perennial philosophy is the view that reality is composed of various levels of existence – levels of being and of knowing – ranging from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit.”Īccording to the perennial philosophy, the physical world is only one of a number of inner levels of reality.
The inner levels of reality are an important aspect of Assagioli’s underlying philosophy.
The Great Chain of Being: The inner levels of reality
Here comes a short explanation of what has been called the Great Chain of Being by Arthur Lovejoy and how it relates to psychosynthesis according to Roberto Assagioli.īy Kenneth Sørensen, This text is an extract from my unpublished book Two Versions of Psychosynthesis: A Comparison of Assagioli and Firman and Gila which will be published around Feb.
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