THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS The evolution of consciousness in man is by giving. The principle of growth for the animal and vegetable kingdoms is competition, rivalry and self-seeking; the principle of growth for man is cooperation, renunciation and self-sacrifice. The Logos is eternally sacrificing Himself on the cross of life and matter; only as man imitates Him does man grow into His likeness. This is the great principle ever to keep in mind. The consciousness in man unfolds hidden possibilities stage by stage, but without self-sacrifice there, is no passing from one stage to the next. Man must die to every remnant of the brute in him, though it takes hundreds of lives. When, after many births and deaths, self-sacrifice has become instinctive with him, then he knows that sacrifice is joy, the only conceivable joy. Before consciousness can evolve, it must first have been in-volved. It is this process of involution which we have outlined in our next diagram, Fig. 115.
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