22686
From: mr bopp, [DNS_Address]
Subject: evolution
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Let us look briefly at the idea of evolution as taught by the Work and compare it with the modern idea of evolution. This Work, just as science, teaches that evolution exists. The difference is that the Work says that mechanical evolution does not exist save within already created types. In the case of some particular species of animals, those who are hardier will naturally or mechanically be selected and so tend to survive rather than their more we akly brethren. Also, the Work says that a particular species of animal, such as the horse, can be bred by selection by Man and so be improv ed. But it teaches there is no gradual mechanical turning of one sp ecies into another. A monkey does not, little by little, turn into a ma n any more than a sow's ear gradually, little by little, turns into a silk purse. This Earth, so low down in the scheme of creation, is subject to many influences apart from those already known such as solar radiations or cosmic radiations. All living things on this Earth, in the thin film of organic life covering its surface, were created by that level that co rresponds to the Sun physically in the Ray of Creation at that point in the Octave of the Ray between Fa and Mi where a shock is necessary in order to transmit influences to the Moon. But in creating this sensitive film, this pain factory, the primary object of the Sun was to cre ate a self-developing being. First of all, all sorts of experiments were nece ssary, all sorts of plans. For this reason the Work speaks of the so lar laboratory. Finally, after many experiments, Man himself was created as a being capable of an inner evolution. For this reason, in esoter ic psychology, Man is called a seed. As a machine he springs from a seed in the womb. All this is given to him. This is his first evolution, the result of millions of experiments. But he is capable of a further evolutio n, an individual evolution, through his own understanding an d efforts. In every age, every epoch, every period of history, there is sown into the world esoteric teaching which gives the outlines of his further self-development. Man is born with a great part of his brain unused, a fact which no mechanical theory of evolution by selection and immediate advantage can explain. These unused parts of the brain represent his further possibilities of individual evolution. What is he going to build up in these unused parts? What ideas? In our epoch we have had given the esoteric teaching in the Gospels indicating the direction in which individual evolution should take place at this stage. However, these teachings have been perverted an d turned into something almost useless. Yet it is obvious that if people really were Christian, in the sense that Christ taught, all wars and many other evils would cease. But what Christ taught and what Christianity teaches are two quite different things. |
22687
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: LOL... see, now don't you feel better...
| After having a good bowel movement?... ;) |
22688
From: mr bopp, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: LOL... see, now don't you feel better...
| note he didn't mention turning a man into a monkey... |
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22690
From: RIG, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: LOL... see, now don't you feel better...
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Didn't even read it, just saw that it was your standard reactionary mode of Turjieff droppings... and thought it funny... ;) |
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