 54. Evolution |
"Hymn to America" from (Thou Mother With Thy Equal Brood)
Thee in thy future
Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, male – thee in thy athletes, moral, spiritual;
south, north, west, east.
Thee in thy moral wealth and civilization (until which they proudest material civilization
must remain in vain)
Thee in thy all-supplying, all-enclosing worship – thee in no single Bible, savior, merely
thy saviors countless, latent within thyself, equal to any divine as any. . .
These! These in three (certain to come)
Today I prophesy.
-Walt Whitman
"All science is transcendental or else passes away. "Botany" is now acquiring the right theory – the avatars of Brahma (God) will presently be the textbooks of natural history."
-Emerson
Those who establish themselves in goodness rise upwards; the passionate remain somewhere in the middle; the dull (ignorant) steeped in the lower occurrences of the modes sink even more downward. The soul (spirit) evolves through these three stages; it rises from dull inertia and subjection to ignorance, through the struggle for material enjoyment to the pursuit of knowledge derived from insight and wisdom and happiness, but so long as we are attached, even though it may be to very noble objects, we are limited and there is always a sense of insecurity since "Rajas" (passion) and "tamas" (dullness) may overcome the sattwa (goodness) in us.The highest ideal is to transcend the ethical level and rise to the spiritual. The good man and woman should become saints; until we reach this stage we are only in the making; our evolution is incomplete.
-Bhagavadgita
"There are different roads by which this end (of spiritual apprehensions) may be reached; the love of beauty which exalts the poet; that devotion to the one and that ascent of science which make the ambition of the philosopher; that love and those prayers by which some devout and ardent soul tends in its moral purity towards perfection. These are the great highways conducting to that height above the actual and the particular, where we stand in the immediate presence of the infinite. Who shines out as from the deeps of the soul."
-Plotinus
Man's idea of evolution is science and technology. God's idea of evolution is for mankind to return to it's "true nature" or "true self." And all things will be added to his remembrance.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all things shall be added to you.
-Jesus, Matthew 6:33
But the helper, the "Holy Spirit" (your true inner self) whom the father will send (uncover) in my name (when you attain (or return to) Christhood), he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
-Jesus, John 14:26
Soul Development
E.Cayce, A.R.E. States:
For life – or the motivative force of a soul – is eternal. . .
