Let's continue this art of thinking for a while. Just like seeing the technical mind, our technical intellect as the foundation of our ability to find causes and effects, we can consider the creative artistic ability as a human ability to have an image of something perfect or ideal, and try to approach this ideal image with the artistic skills. A work of art doesn't emerge from a process of trial and error. Of course the skill is developed by trying and erring. The work of art develops from an ideal image. 'Ideal' doesn't have to mean 'perfect'. The image in the inner life of the artist that he would like to create, to realize is meant (here).
If we want to try to change our view and consider nature and cosmos like a work of art, with the living beings in it, we could try to imagine man at the beginning of evolution, as an ideal, as a perfect, exquisite, complete being, only not yet in physical form. You could imagine that the whole evolution is already present in this ideal completeness, like the whole plant already lies in a seed. Evolution would thus be the effort of a 'superhuman' artist, who lets his 'skills', that are also superhuman beings, work at the accomplishment of the ideal .
At the end of evolution we could expect to find the realized beginning of it- and the beginning would actually be the result. Evolution could be seen as something that is alpha and omega at the same time. We would have to find a new concept of evolution. The progression in time as an evolution would lead to the future. But the final situation, the goal, the perfection of man, would also be a becoming from the future to present time, an ideal real image, that draws evolution from the future back to present time.
The human alphabet would become through evolution, but the cause would not only lie in alpha, but in alpha and omega. Omega would be a force that would keep the stream of evolution within the limits, and would accompany this stream in a way that makes the final ideal form possible.
Thinking this way, you could consider the stream of evolution as going from the past to the present to the future, and the other movement - a stream that comes to us from the future - as the flow of time that comes out of the future and flows to the present. We would have to call this time flow: involution. Alpha becomes omega, but omega shapes alpha.
Time would not be a flow like this:
past present future
but as follows: Extended to infinity a line becomes a circle, considered spacial it is a sphere...
This is a picture of 100.000 light yearsIn this picture time becomes visual in a spacial form. Of course one can't see here that evolution and involution grasp together in the present. But if you would want to draw this principle of time, you would exactly draw it like this image.
Evolution and involution by Mieke Mosmuller