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Maheshwari's natural place is in the higher consciousness
above mind, for she is the wideness and largeness and wisdom
of the Divine.
CWSA 32: 66

Q: Is Maheshwari on the Intuitive and the Overmind levels?

These Powers can manifest on all levels from the Overmind
to the Physical.
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I had a talk with X in which he said that Athena is a form or
representation of Maheshwari. Some of my visions of Gods like
Shiva were in forms resembling human forms, but I thought this
was due to my having seen them on the planes relating to the
human mind and so my mind saw them in that way. Before the
material creation took place, the vital and mental worlds existed
and before that the planes of the higher hemisphere existed. But
did the Gods on these planes exist with forms and shapes or did
they only exist as impersonal forces without forms?

As to the Gods, man can build forms which they will ac-
cept; but these forms too are inspired into man's mind from
the planes to which the God belongs. All creation has the two
sides, the formed and the formless; the Gods too are formless
and yet have forms, but a Godhead can take many forms, here
Maheshwari, there Pallas Athene. Maheshwari herself has many
forms in her lesser manifestations, Durga, Uma, Parvati, Chandi
etc. The Gods are not limited to human forms — man also has
not always seen them in human forms only.
CWSA 32: 66-67 Sri Aurobindo

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