we're talking about an involution of consciousness?
Hmmm... I'm not sure what you are meaning by that. Involution is an enfolding of something. In various metaphysical philosophies, that points to all of creation being an enfolding of Spirit through the process of involution, moving down the great chain of being from spirit to soul, to mind, to body, to the material world at its base. Where evolution is the unfolding of that back up the great chain of being, from the material world, to body, to mind, to soul, to spirit. In a true sense of the word, yes everything that exists in through the involution of Consciousness.
But that's not exactly what I was trying to point to. I'm talking how by looking to a deity form outside of ourselves, or any conceptual image of the Divine, or Spirit, or God, this is what is known as the cataphatic approach vs. the apophatic approach. The cataphatic is a positive affirmation, or as I like to see it Saguna Brahman, which means "God with qualities". The apophatic approach is through negation of any ideas, concepts, models, images, etc. That compares with Nigurna Brahman, which is "God without qualities" (an interesting paradox to then call it God anything
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So my point was that through externalized images of the Divine, one can very much awaken the Divine within, which then becomes known from within you. This then opens to an Awakening of the Self and Self Realization. You are the God you sought, and have been all along.
There is a great quote I saved when I read it explained a certain way I thought beautifully captures this:
"But this is not God as an ontological other, set apart from the cosmos, from humans, and from creation at large. Rather, it is God as an archetypal summit of one's own Consciousness. John Blofeld quotes Edward Conze on the Vajrayana Buddhist viewpoint: " 'It is the emptiness of everything which allows the identification to take place - the emptiness [which means "transcendental openness" or "non-obstruction"] which is in us coming together with the emptiness which is the deity. By visualizing that identification 'we actually do become the deity. The subject is identified with the object of faith. The worship, the worshiper, and the worshiped, those three are not separate' ". At its peak, the soul becomes one, literally one, with the deity-form, with the dhyani-buddha, with (choose whatever term one prefers) God. One dissolves into Deity, as Deity - that Deity which, from the beginning, has been one's own Self or highest Archetype."
~Ken Wilber, Eye to Eye, pg. 85