able in the present sphere (earth plane) to co-relate through that Divine in the entity to manifest such conditions in an earth plane. As this force, then, became manifested in the earth’s forces (material forces), this entity became one manifest in the flesh, presently known in flesh as [137]. These conditions, as we find, come with those relative forces of the spirit manifest in the spirit.
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Evolution
Reading 1479–1
For it is ever, in the evolution of man in materiality, here a little, there a little, line upon line, precept upon precept. For He is mindful and hath not willed that any soul should perish, but has with every affliction, with every disturbance, with every disappointment prepared a way, a means for a helpful experience, if the entity, the soul, will but look up, lift up the eyes to the hill—yea to the tabernacle within self—for that healing that comes to every heart, every soul.
Reading 3189–2
In analyzing the urges that have prompted the individual entity many things or conditions enter therein. The premise from which this information is drawn as it is a part of the record upon time, is that very influence as related one to another, even as man in the elements of the body is of the earth-earthy. For, it was made from that which was already a part of God’s evolution. Thus the physical body is oft subject to those things and influences, those related things. Thus in the physical body radiation, water and mind urge, play an important part. The entity may thus so raise the consciousness of the mental and spiritual self as has been the experience at times of this entity, to “put away” or overcome those influences that may have been about the urge. For, the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. This is truly applicable here.
Reading 2271–1
For, the experience or sojourn in the earth is not by chance, but the natural spiritual and soul evolution of the entity; that it may be aware of its relationships to God—through its relationships to its fellow men; recognizing in each soul, as well as in self, those possibilities, those opportunities, those duties, those obligations that are a portion of each soul-entity’s manifesting in a material plane.
Reading 3744–5
(Q) Definition of the word evolution with reference to the human family:
(A) Evolution with reference to the human family. Evolution is, as commonly understood by the human family, and upon which there has been much discussion by many peoples, and the question has become one that involves many different phases and meanings to many peoples. Evolution is as reference. In reference to the human family, means rather resuscitation of those forces that have gradually brought man to understand the law of self from within, and by understanding such law has brought the better force in man to bring about the gradual change that has come to man, known through all the ages.
Man was made as man. There was, there is, as we find, only three of the creations as is given, matter, force and mind. In each we find that, in the forces as is developed into the conditions, as we find at the present time. All flesh is not of one flesh, but the developing of one has always remained in the same, and has only been to meet the needs of man, for which there was made all that was made, and man’s evolving, or evolution, has only been that of the gradual growth upward to the mind of the Maker.
(Q) Is the Darwinian theory of evolution of man right or wrong? Give such an answer as will enlighten the people on this subject of evolution.
(A) Man was made in the beginning, as the ruler over those elements as was prepared in the earth plane for his needs. When the plane became that such as man was capable of being sustained by the forces, and conditions, as were upon the face of the earth plane, man appeared not from that already created, but as the Lord over all that was created, and in man there is found that in the living man, all of that, that may be found without in the whole, whole world or earth plane, and other than that, the soul of man is that making him above all animal, vegetable, mineral kingdom of the earth plane.
Man did not descend from the monkey, but man has evolved, resuscitation, you see, from time to time, time to time, here a little, there a little, line upon line and line upon line. In all ages we find this has been the developing—day by day, day by day, or the evolution as we see from those forces as may be manifested by that, that man has made himself the gradual improvement upon the things made by man, yet made to suffice the needs of certain functioning portions of man’s will force, as may be manifested by man, but ever remaining that element to supply that need, whether of sustenance or other functions of man’s individual needs, as created by man, this becoming then the exponent of the force as his Creator made him, for the World, and the needs and conditions, man’s compliance nearer with those laws brings him gradually to that development necessary to meet the needs of the conditions, place or sphere in which that individual is placed. As in this:
The needs of those in the North Country not the same as those in the Torrid region. Hence development comes to meet the needs in the various conditions under which man is placed. He only using those laws that are ever and ever in existence in the plane, as is given in that of relativity, that being the needs from one relation to another.
The theory is, man evolved, or evolution, from first cause in creation, and brings forth to meet the needs of the man, the preparation for the needs of man has gone down many, many thousands and millions of years, as is known in this plane, for the needs of man in the hundreds and thousands of years to come. Man is man, and God’s order of creation, which he represents even as His son, who is the representative of the Father, took on the form of Man, the highest of the creation in the plane, and became to man that element that shows and would show and will show the way, the directing way, the Life, the Water, the Vine, to the everlasting, when guided and kept in that manner and form.
(Q) Where does the soul come from, and how does it enter the physical body?
(A) It is already there. “. . . and He breathed into him the breath of life, and he became a living soul,” as the breath, the ether from the forces as come into the body of the human when born breathes the breath of life, as it becomes a living soul, provided it has reached that developing in the creation where the soul may enter and find the lodging place. All souls were created in the beginning, and are finding their way back to whence they came.
(Q) Where does the soul go when fully developed?
(A) To its Maker.
Reading 254–95
. . . for time and space are as the evolution upon which the forces of the divine make for that change that brings same into the experiences of those souls who seek to become one with the Creative Energies. Hence all may be touched, all may be drawn upon. And, as has been given, if it were individualized by a guide, it would become limited; while if universal it is in the hands of Him that is the Maker, the Giver, the Creator. For hath He not given, “Abide in me, as I in the Father, that I in the Father may be glorified in thee!” Ye that seek self-glory know its hardships. Ye that seek the glory of the Father know its beauties.
Reading 900–70
(Q) Explain as clearly as possible the definition of Evolution as relates to Man, first in Spirit plane, then in flesh and blood on earth
