About Savitri | B1C1-02 Earth is a Special Formation (p.1)

We saw last time that this emanation of Light and Consciousness had separated from its Origin and naturally fallen into Inconscience. Result was that the world created was the world of Unconsciousness — a world of Nothingness, of obscure Nothingness.
But in spite of everything the Divine Origin was inside that and had a tendency to bring up again a world of Consciousness. And this is like the first attempt of this waking up in the Nothingness of something that was a faint expression of consciousness — but “Recalling,” as He said, “the tenebrous womb from which it came”. It had a tendency of going back to Unconsciousness. It is like the origin of Death.

As in a dark beginning of all things,
A mute featureless semblance of the Unknown
Repeating for ever the unconscious act,
Prolonging for ever the unseeing will,
Cradled the cosmic drowse of ignorant Force
Whose moved creative slumber kindles the suns
And carries our lives in its somnambulist whirl.

For the sake of evolution and the ascension towards Consciousness, earth was formed. But it was formed naturally in the Unconscious, and then He says:

Athwart the vain enormous trance of Space,
Its formless stupor without mind or life,
A shadow spinning through a soulless Void,
Thrown back once more into unthinking dreams,
Earth wheeled abandoned in the hollow gulfs
Forgetful of her spirit and her fate.

That is when earth was created in the Unconscious and the Nothingness, in order to concentrate the effort and the working of evolution — that is the description of the beginning.
That Earth began — almost totally unconscious — as He says:

Forgetful of her spirit and her fate.

That is the beginning.