Sorry for taking up so much space....blame it on my love for Nature. I happened on the Wonders of Life series on TVO and it falls right in the lap of my interests...not my fault. So I indulge with excitement. A book Im reading.... It must be observed that the appearance of human mind and body on the earth marks a crucial step, a decisive change in the course and process of evolution; it is not merely a continuation of the old lines. Up till this advent of a developed thinking mind in Matter evolution had been affected, not by the self-aware aspiration, intention, will or seeking of the living being, but subconsciously or subliminally by the automatic operation of Nature. But in Man the necessary change has been made,-the being has become awake and aware of himself; there has been made manifest in Mind its will to develop, to grow in knowledge, to deepen the inner and widen the outer existence, to increase the capacities of the nature. In him , then, the substitution of a conscious for a subconscious evolution has become conceivable and practicable, and it may well be concluded that the aspiration, the urge, the persistent endeavour in him is a sure sign of Natures will for a higher way of fulfilment, the emergence of a greater status. Sri Aurobindo Ghose Theres one more.... To each grade of series of evolution belongs its appropriate class of existences,-one by one there appear material forms and forces, vegetable life, animals and half-animal man, developed human beings, imperfectly evolved or more evolved spiritually; but because of the continuity of the evolutionary process there is no rigid separation between them; each new advance or formation takes up what was before. The animal take up into himself living and inanimate Matter; man takes up both along with the animal existence. There are furrows left by the transitional process or separating demarcations settled by the fixed habit of Nature: but these distinguish one series from another, serve perhaps to prevent a fall back of what has been evolved, they do not cancel or cut the continuity of the evolution. It passes from one grade to another or from one series of steps o another either by an imperceptible process or by some bound or crisis or, perhaps, by an intervention from above,-some descent or ensouling or influence from higher planes of Nature. Whatever the means, the secret indwelling in matter makes its way upward from the lower to the higher gradations, taking up what it was into what it is and preparing to take up both into what it will be. OK..Im tired of typing. This is a book anyone can get 1100 pages long. Will I get into trouble for copying?
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 01:02:09 +0000
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