EVOLUTION AND INVOLUTION, PROGRESS AND DECLINE
593. The reason that metaphysical traditionality refuses the theory of evolution is not because it disagrees with it, but because it does not experience it.
594. Evolutionary theories are dangerous superstitions because not only do they trace the superior back to the inferior, but also they treat progress as a necessary or inevitable fact.
[See later aphorism 746]
595. Every kind of animal species represents a cul-de-sac on the cosmic path of the cosmic Man of hyper-cosmic origin - a dead end which is denied, but, at the same time, is also begotten by the Universal Man, who first projects it as his own mental, imaginative and volitional product, and then gradually turns it to materialization.
596. »Every animal is an obsession« (Heinrich Steffels). It is not the obsession of present-day man. It is the obsession of man.
597. All species of animals are the projections and materialization of human forms of consciousness.
598. Theories of descent not only declare that man originates from the animals, but also that man is an animal.
[This is highly exemplified by the titles of two books by Desmond Morris, a famous evolutionist: The Naked Ape and The Human Animal. As far as we are concerned, we must reject these two flattering titles; nevertheless, we have no objections to them regarding Mr. Morris.]
599. The relationship between languages is a coup de grâce for every type of evolutionism, because archaic languages were far more complex and superior to those following them.
600. It is trivially evident that the superiority of an era is not determined by the standard of technology, but, putting it in an exoteric way, by the degree of closeness to God, or from an esoteric point of view, by the degree of closeness to Myself.
601. We could only speak about progress if we could speak about man’s gradual transformation into a superior type of man. However, we can attribute several kinds of qualities to modern man, but not superiority.
602. It is doubtless that the 20th century can claim to have achieved far greater success with regard to technology than the last ten thousand years. Nonetheless, this is also true when considering man’s separation from the spirit.
603. Eclipse
SeparationBreakingDisintegration: these are the grades of the descent of the world.