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From the Atom to
angel: the
evolution of
intelligent
principle
(Part 2 and
final)
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Ricardo
Baesso
de
Oliveira |
How evolution
took place
The evolution of
living creatures
from inferior
species is an
undisputable
fact of science.
Studies of
fossils show
that bacteria
without an
individual
nucleus evolved
into unicellular
beings with a
nuclear membrane
and organelles a
little more
complex. Later,
the cooperation
between these
tiny little
creatures made
possible the
emerging of new
pluricelular
forms of life
and therefore,
in a chain of
increasing
complexity, came
along
vegetables,
inferior
creatures,
superior
creatures and
man.
If we take into
account only the
extreme ends of
the chain, there
will be no
apparent
analogy; but if
go from one ring
to another
without a
solution of
continuity, we
arrive, without
a brusque
transition, at
the plant and
vertebrate
animals. We then
understand the
possibility that
animals of a
complex
organization are
nothing more
than a
transformation,
or, if you will,
a gradual
development, an
insensitive
principle, of
the lower
species and,
thus,
successively
until the primal
elementary
being.
Following step
by step the
succession of
creatures, one
may say that
each species is
an improvement,
a transformation
of the species
immediately
below.
What we argue is
how it all
happened. The
hypothesis most
accepted by
scientists
associates two
ideas: natural
selection,
proposed by
Russel Wallace
and Charles
Darwin in the 19th
Century, and
Mutationism, an
idea presented
by Hugo de
Vries. Together,
these ideas bear
the name
Neo-Darwinism.
Mutations
are
transformations
in the DNA
molecule. As DNA
is the mold in
which the cell
guides itself to
synthesize its
proteins,
modifications in
the DNA will be
followed by
changes in the
proteins of the
cell and
therefore
chances in its
form and
function.
Many mutations
are harmful
(causing
diseases of a
genetic kind) or
neutral (not
having any
effect on
proteins). A
small number of
mutations,
however, can be
beneficial,
allowing for
some individuals
to survive and
reproduce in a
more effective
way than the
others (natural
selection).
Thus,
Neo-Darwinism
explains the
emergence of new
species
(mutations
undergone by
lower species)
and the
disappearance of
old species
(they were not
fit enough to
survive the
struggle for
life). It is
estimated that
99% of the
species that
existed in the
past have
perished.
But for the
Neo-Darwinism it
all took place
without a
purpose or a
reason, but as a
result of the
blind forces of
chance, which is
illogical, for
blind forces of
chance do not
produce highly
complex and
intelligent
beings.
To make logic
the
neo-darwinist
proposal, one
needs to admit
the existence of
the intelligent
principle, the
invisible
commander of the
evolutionary
process.
The evolution of
the species in
general and of
man in
particular took
place in two
states of life:
the material and
the spiritual.
The “missing
links of
evolution”, that
is to say, its
inexplicable
phenomena
happened in the
spiritual realm,
away from the
investigative
lenses of
scientists. The
spiritual
principle
functions as an
intelligent
design with
its ethereal
body comprised
of subtle
energies, and
works as a
modeling field
of the physical
form. The
evolutionary
achievements of
the spiritual
principle are
shaped in the
physical body
and the
spiritual body
simultaneously,
in their
experiences on
the two planes
of life.
We may still
consider the
activity of
biologists in
the astral plane
who, under the
loving
supervision of
Jesus, monitor
the progress of
the world,
intervening when
necessary, in
the spiritual
bodies of the
evolutionary
forms, during
their stage in
the spiritual
plane. These
interventions
could be
responsible for
the mutations
necessary to the
development of
new skills.
The journey of
the intelligent
principle
Created plain
and ignorant,
the intelligent
principle will
find the
resources that
it needs for its
improvement in
the experiences
it will have in
the different
biological
species, in its
long
evolutionary
journey. The
body is
simultaneously
the wrapping and
the instrument
of the
intelligent
principle and,
as it acquires
new skills, it
is coated by a
layer more
appropriate to
the new kind of
work it is
supposed to
perform.
The experiences
of the spiritual
being, whether
in the physical
plane, the
spiritual or the
extra-physical
one, which will
enrich you in
your intimate
structure and,
simultaneously,
improve your
fluidic layer.
In this coming
and going, the
spiritual
principle will
go through the
harshest
screenings of
adaptation and
selection,
taking up the
multiple values
of organization,
of reproduction,
of memory, of
instinct, of
sensitivity, of
perception and
self
preservation,
entering, in
this way,
through a more
complex and
painstakingly
acquired
intelligence,
the initial
zones of reason.
In the mineral:
the attraction
In the
beginning, the
spiritual
principle
influences the
atomic-molecular
organizations in
the mineral
kingdom. It’d be
like an
energetic axis
inserted in the
core of atoms,
molecules,
inviting them to
unite.
This energetic
axis creates,
with its
vibrations, the
aggregation
field reflected
in the forces of
attraction and
cohesion, and
determines the
concentration of
energies and the
respective
condensation in
the atoms and
molecular
arrangements.
Therefore,
mineral
organization
would be a
consequence of a
power in the
togetherness of
its atomic
units, to
orderly guide
the aggregation
process.
In the core of
the mineral, the
intelligent
principle would
absorb
experiences, and
outside it would
gather positions
renewing itself;
in order to
practice new
potentials of
orientation with
the ever-so more
complex forces
rebuilt by past
experiences of
similar
phenomena. In
this coming and
going, within or
outside matter,
there’d be the
reincarnation
principle in
action.
In the
vegetable: the
feeling
All the possible
experiences
acquired in the
mineral, the
intelligent
principle is
ready to take
place in the
vegetable
kingdom.
Now, besides the
acquisitions of
the previous
phase (mineral:
attraction),
it’d acquire, in
the vegetable
stage, the new
potentials of
sensitivity. The
sensitivity
mentioned here
has nothing to
do with the
complex
reactions of the
more elaborated
Spirit in the
man phase.
The sensitivity
acquired in the
vegetable
kingdom has to
do with
reactions to
stimuli, the
development of
harmonious
responses to
different
stimuli from the
environment.
In the animal:
the instinct
The mature and
elaborate
spiritual
principle in the
vegetable
kingdom, in
countless times,
would have to be
awaken in new
positions as a
demand from its
internal
impulse.
Therefore, it
will seek a new
evolutionary
step for
affirmations,
manifesting
itself in the
animal kingdom.
The condition
the
characterizes
the spiritual
principle in
this phase would
be the
acquisition of
the instinct; at
first in
inferior
animals, in a
very simple
manner, later in
mammals, because
of their more
elaborate
organs, shows
itself even more
efficiently,
getting ready
to, later, enter
the kingdom of
reason.
In the man:
reason
It is believed
that man had
conquered reason
and,
consequently,
free will and
full
responsibility
for his actions
about 200
thousand years
ago. However,
pre-historical
men, with their
physical package
very similar to
the present one,
came about
before that,
around 3 million
years ago, when
the frontal
cortex, the
noblest area of
the brain, was
ready.
The development
of conscience
didn’t take
place abruptly;
it was being
developed
throughout
thousands of
years in
successive
existences in
the superior
primates and
later in various
species of the
Homo genus.
Group soul of a
species
In The Book
of Spirits
we read: It
is in the
inferior
creatures that
the intelligent
principle
elaborates
itself, it
individualizes
itself little by
little and gets
the practice for
life. (607-a)
To individualize
itself,
according to the
dictionary is
the same as
considering
oneself
something apart
from others.
In accordance
with these
ideas, a few
evolutionary
thinkers present
the hypothesis
of a group
soul of a
species,
according to
which the
intelligent
principle in its
experiences in
the inferior
kingdoms of
nature, still
hasn’t find
itself
individualized,
that is to say,
evolutionary
walks together
with creatures
of the same
species.
In the more
simple species,
the spiritual
principle would
be more attached
to their
relatives,
creating
together a filed
of collective
influence, the
group soul of
the species,
that would have
the purpose of
controlling the
species. It’d
be, therefore, a
collective
dynamism that
drives mineral,
vegetable and
simpler animal
colonies.
As the species
lose their
contact with the
colony, as a
result of their
own evolution,
they
individualize,
beginning to
depend solely on
themselves.
According to
this hypothesis,
we may
understand why
the society of
insects such as
bees, ants and
termites,
instinctively
develop perfect
and complex
activities,
impossible to be
explained
otherwise.
Biological
essays and mass
destruction
How to
understand the
appearance of so
many species
that should have
disappeared with
time? At least
half a dozen of
cases of
extinction have
been documented
since the
beginning of
life on earth.
The most recent
of them, around
65 million of
years ago, led
to the
extinction of
big reptiles,
when a meteor of
about 10km of
diameter hit the
Gulf of Mexico.
If the spiritual
principle works
as an
intelligent
design, how to
grasp the dawn
of species that
should not
prevailed with
time?
First of all, we
need to
understand that
the spiritual
principle, as an
intelligent
design, brings
in its core a
purpose of
evolution, a
force that
drives it
forward, a
meaning, a
reason for being
and existing:
progress.
It does not
bring, contrary
to what some may
think, a map
that is ready
and outbidden,
and that should
be copied and
followed. If
that was the
case, the idea
of
predestination
would prevail,
which goes
against the
principle of the
law of personal
achievement. In
order for growth
to take place it
is necessary to
have a choice,
failures and
successes, which
would be
necessary
elements in the
acquisition of
experience.
The biological
species that
appeared and
disappeared
should be deemed
biological
essays
experienced by
the intelligent
principle, which
sought the best
way to reach its
aims.
There’s no
determined plan;
things could
have turned out
different. Some
paths could have
been tried until
they appeared a
dead end.
Evolution is
creative and not
prefixed.
The mass
destruction of
the great
reptiles allowed
for a small ape,
the size of a
mouse, who
constantly ran
away from
dinosaurs, to
find room to
live freely.
Those tiny apes,
a few million
years later,
have spread into
great primates
which were the
matrix for the
dawn of the
human species,
about 3 million
years ago.
In conclusion:
man, in a
certain way, is
the offspring of
a great tragedy
that culminated
with the mass
extinction of
pre-historical
reptiles.
References:
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A Caminho da
Luz,
Emmanuel/Chico
Xavier.
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A Evolução
Anímica,
Gabriel
Delanne.
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A Gênese, de
Allan
Kardec.
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Breve
história de
quase tudo,
Bill Bryson.
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Criação
Imperfeita,
Marcelo
Gleiser.
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Evolução em
dois mundos,
André Luiz/Chico
Xavier.
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Iluminação
Interior,
Joanna de
Ângelis/Divaldo
P. Franco.
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Impulsos
criativos da
evolução,
Jorge
Andrea.
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O Consolador,
Emmanuel/Chico
Xavier.
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O Livro dos
Espíritos,
de Allan
Kardec.
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O Relojoeiro
Cego,
Richard
Dawkins.
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O Tao da
Libertação,
Mark
Hathaway e
Leonardo
Boff.
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