by Ernest L. Norman
To clarify this constructive evolution we will take certain specific examples; for instance, the amoeba. He is a tiny one-celled animal, a semi-liquid glob of proteide molecules. Science believes such animals were formed in the primeval ooze when certain conditions of heat, light and various elements somehow got together and formed these first cells. However, the scientist is quite vague on the point of how these cells became animated with life. He does not know that this whole process was instigated from the spiritual side of this dimension. When certain wave forms of idea or consciousness were harmonically attuned or vibrated with certain wave forms of expression on the material or negative side, then a vortex was formed; this vortex re-expressed itself physically as the amoeba.
Now this amoeba lived in its little life cycle and it died; that is, the proteide molecules composing its body disintegrated; the vortex or its psychic anatomy did not entirely perish, some of the negative potentials passed off and assumed the clockwise rotation in the creative cycle. Other portions of this vortex remained as a skeleton form and progressed counterclockwise or evolved, and when several or more of these vortex skeletons combined, they formed a new compound vortex which again re-expressed itself into the physical world as a multi-celled animal. This is the spiritual side of evolution that was not known by Darwin or by Mendel, the geneticist; it is not known to any scientist in this day or time (save to Unariuns).
Continuing our introspection, let us take an animal higher on the scale of evolution—for instance a dog, an animal quite familiar to man. The dog expresses a certain amount of intelligence, however, this intelligence is, in comparison, very limited to your own particular expressive intelligence. This is because the psychic anatomy of this dog has not evolved into as great a proportion or function as has your particular psychic anatomy. The dog has a psychic anatomy which to some degree has been compounded or evolved in much the same manner as that of the amoeba; however, the mental consciousness is still comparatively undeveloped and the superconscious has only just slightly begun to form as a separate unit or entity. In human beings, this personal consciousness or ego is very strong or comparatively well developed.
Therefore, when a dog dies he will not maintain evolution in the same conscious or subconscious personal way that you do. His physical body will return to the earth; the subconscious portion of his psychic anatomy will proceed clockwise around the circle; the small remaining portion of mental consciousness will form sort of a skeleton framework which will enable some future puppy to be born alive with all the dog-like instincts, attributes and proclivities. However, he will not subconsciously remember as strongly as does a human being in the proportion of ego consciousness or selfhood.
It is this selfhood consciousness or ego which is the determinant difference between human beings and animals. However, there is no sharp line of separation. A chimpanzee, which is very close to the human, develops an intelligence quite similar to that of a seven-year-old child. He has fairly good table manners, goes to the toilet unattended and, in general, conducts himself like any normal well-mannered child of seven years.
Of course, this brings us to that very controversial point: Did man spring from the ape family? In the late 1920’s the very famous Scopes trial in Tennessee dramatically illustrated this controversy. It also exposed the abysmal ignorance of both factions—science and religion—for neither side knew of the true spiritual evolution of consciousness as it is so concerned in the creation of an intelligent entity such as a human being. The creation of this intelligent entity actually does, technically speaking, and from the spiritual side of this third dimension, begin with the amoeba, not the monkey.
In this respect, it must be borne in mind that this Infinite Creative Intelligence is not personally or emotionally concerned with such ideosophies or such false ego structures which were so expressed by the religionist or scientist in this or other similar controversies. In fact the reverse is true, for the whole of this creative substance, plan and principle and these various expressive evolutionary forms should be considered, whether singularly or collectively, as supremely wonderful expressions.
Who can say which of the plant and animal species, including man and the various races of mankind, is better than the other for each is some smaller or larger expression of this same creative Intelligence. This is what Jesus meant when He said, “even the fall of a sparrow is noted”, for the sparrow is just as important as any and all other things; and these various negative or material earth expressions are merely cells of consciousness when combined with all other interdimensional expressive forms and are the sum and total of this vast Infinite Intelligent life cycle.
Now let us examine the psychic anatomy more closely to see how it functions. You will see on the diagram there are certain wavy lines drawn as sine waves between the conscious physical mind and the various sections of the psychic anatomy. These are carrier waves or the highways over which other wave forms travel.
Let us take a specific example of consciousness. You are looking at a chair; this means that certain frequencies of light varying in degrees or intensities are reflected from the surface of the chair. These enter the eye and are focused by the lens onto the retina, a group of cells at the back portion of the eyeball. These cells are formed like rods and cones; they contain phosphorus compounds and have the power to change or harmonically re-create the energy waves which strike them. These regenerated or re-created wave forms then enter various portions of the brain through the optic nerve.
Now these 50 billion or so brain cells are constantly being activated by the sine waves coming out of the psychic anatomy into them. When this new group of energy wave forms comes into contact with this other set of wave forms, regeneration again occurs and a new set of wave forms is created. These will travel back, so to speak, over the sine wave highway into the subconscious vortex of the psychic anatomy. There they will meet old friends; these friends are the subconscious memories of all the times you have sat down in a chair since you were a very small baby.
These are what we refer to as association factors. The subconscious contains all the association factors of everything that you have done or experienced since you were conceived in this present lifetime. The mental conscious vortex contains all the association factors of all the experiences in all of your former lifetimes and back into that certain point when you began to maintain continuity from one life to the next as a definite individual personality.
In other words, you psychically remembered in many different ways. This psychic memory, combined or formed from the various experience association factors, had subsequently polarized the superconscious vortex. This superconscious vortex is actually the determinant quality between the animal and the human being, for in each human being this superconscious has progressively exerted a more dominant and positive influence.
This influence can best be described as your conscience or the “small still voice”, while in human beings and to varying degrees it is much more highly developed in a personal way than with animals where it is still comparatively undeveloped, and in comparison with the advanced personalities who are helping deliver these lessons.
Excerpt from Infinite Concept Of Cosmic Creation
See Part I here. Part III coming soon.