THE ALL becomes “involved”, or “wrapped up” in its creation. This process is believed by the Hermetists to have a Correspondence to the mental process of an artist, writer, or inventor, who becomes so wrapped up in his mental creation as almost forget his own existence and who, for the time being, almost “lives in his creation”.
This Involuntary stage of Creation is sometimes called the “Outpouring” of the Divine Energy, just as the Evolutionary state is called the “Indrawing”. The extreme pole of the Creative process is considered to be the furthest removed from THE ALL, while the beginning of the Evolutionary stage is regarded as the beginning of the return swing of the pendulum of Rhythm – a “coming home” idea being held in all of the Hermetic Teachings.
The Teachings are that during the “Outpouring” the vibrations become lower and lower until finally the urge ceases, and the return swing begins. But there is this difference, that while in the “Outpouring” the creative forces manifest compactly and as a whole, yet form the beginning of the Evolutionary or “Indrawing” stage, there is manifested the Law of Individualization – that is, the tendency to separate into Units of Force, so that finally that witch left THE ALL as unindividualized energy returns to its source as countless highly developed Units of Life, having risen higher and higher in the scale by means of Physical, Mental and Spiritual Evolution.
The entire creation, including Involution and Evolution, of an Universe, is but “as the twinkle of the eye” to THE ALL. At the end of countless cycles of aeons of time, THE ALL withdraws its Attention – its Contemplation and Meditation of the Universe, for the Great Work is finished – and All is withdrawn into THE ALL from witch it emerged, But mystery of mysteries – the Spirit of each soul is not annihilated, but is infinitely expanded – the Created and the Creator are merged.
The Kybalion