ABSTRACT
An interesting comparison suggests itself. The scientific cosmology of the day has an approach to the Upanisadic truth. Professor Alexander has conceived the growth of the world out of space, time, and energy, and has borrowed from science the indissolubility of space and time. Time enfolds space and the primal energy plays in the eternal space-time order generating out of it the finer forces of life and spirit. Evolution begins with the cosmic dance of energy in the silence of illimitable space and the three are the basic elements of reality. It is the space-time-energy entity. The complexity of the fabric of being arises as evolution proceeds. And the higher the ascent in evolution, the more complex is the emergent in evolution. Life in its cosmic dance loses its original simplicity and acquires in the process of emergent evolution a growing complexity and multiplicity. This dance has as it were a periodicity, and the drama is not played all the time with equal intensity. A forward push is succeeded by a temporary inertia. Life appears first on the scene. Matter is ruled out of order. It gives place to energy. When the play of the vital forces becomes too complex, the signal for the next higher emergence is hoisted. A greater integration and a higher unity in the form of mind with its light of intelligence appears in the surrounding gloom. The primal darkness is dispelled and the illumination of consciousness is hailed as the welcome guest. Evolution cannot stop with the mind which can illumine a centre but not all centres. In the corner of this consciousness is felt the jostling of a wider life and, eventually, we reach the next higher stage in the onward march of life, the social mind and the Deity meeting the higher instincts of morality and religion. Professor Alexander conceives a scheme of cosmology from space and time. God is the last element in the evolution. Religious consciousness is its first blossoming in man. The more complex the integration, the higher the unity. God is the highest unity because he is last in the evolution.
