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What did Masters say about Evolution?
Creation vs. Evolution
solved; The two views do not conflict.
As a young man, Jesus spent
some time at a Buddhist temple in the city of Kapivastu, in the Himalayas.
A Buddhist priest, Barata
Arabo, spoke with Jesus about evolution, and he explained to Jesus his
understanding of the process. Jesus
took exception to Barata's explanation, because Barata said that man is mind,
and that mind can take any form. He
thought that any form of life can evolve into any other form, and, given enough
time, a mere worm species could eventually evolve into bird or beast, or man.
Jesus acknowledged that
evolution exists, but He refuted Barata'a understanding of it. He told Barata all about the origin of the
process of evolution, explaining that the process of evolution did not exist
before the fall of man. He said it came
into existence because of the fall of man (and other forms of life) and that it
will cease to be when man is restored to his lost position.
He also explained that there are boundaries, which evolution cannot cross, and
within these boundaries, worm may evolve into salamander, or lynx into lion,
and wolf may become coyote, dingo or dog; but insect can never become
rhinoceros, nor can any animal ever develop into man.
Below is the text of Jesus’
reply:
[AG 32:10-39, Jesus]
"Barata Arabo, who taught
you this, that mind, which is the man, may manifest in flesh of beast, or bird,
or creeping thing?”
Barata said, "From times which man remembers not
our priests have told us so, and so we know."
Jesus said,
“Enlightened Arabo, are you a
master mind and do not know that man knows naught by being told?
13) Man may believe what others say; but thus he never knows. If man would
know, he must himself be what he knows.
14) Do you remember, Arabo, when you were ape, or bird, or worm?
15) Now, if you have no better proving of your plea than that the priests have
told you so, you do not know; you simply guess.
16) Regard not, then, what any man has said; let us forget the flesh, and go
with mind into the land of fleshless things; mind never does forget.
17) And backward through the ages master minds can trace themselves; and thus
they know.
18) Time never was when man was not.
19) That which begins will have an end. If man was not, the time will come when
he will not exist.
20) From God's own Record Book we read: The Triune God breathed forth, and
seven Spirits stood before his face. (The Hebrews call these seven Spirits,
Elohim.)
21) And these are they who, in their boundless power, created everything that
is, or was.
22) These Spirits of the Triune God moved on the face of boundless space and
seven ethers were, and every ether had its form of life.
23) These forms of life were but the thoughts of God, clothed in the substance
of their ether planes.
24) (Men call these ether planes the planes of protoplast, of earth, of plant,
of beast, of man, of angel and of cherubim.)
25) These planes with all their teeming thoughts of God, are never seen by eyes
of man in flesh; they are composed of substance far too fine for fleshly eyes
to see, and still they constitute the soul of things;
26) And with the eyes of soul all creatures see these ether planes, and all the
forms of life.
27) Because all forms of life on every plane are thoughts of God, all creatures
think, and every creature is possessed of will, and, in its measure, has the
power to choose,
28) And in their native planes all creatures are supplied with nourishment from
the ethers of their planes.
29) And so it was with every living thing until the will became a sluggish
will, and then the ethers of the protoplast, the earth, the plant, the beast,
the man, began to vibrate very slow.
30) The ethers all became more dense, and all the creatures of these planes
were clothed with coarser garbs, the garbs of flesh, which men can see; and
thus this coarser manifest, which men call physical, appeared.
31) And this is what is called the fall of man; but man fell not alone, for
protoplast, and earth, and plant and beast were all included in the fall.
32) The angels and the cherubim fell not; their wills were ever strong, and so
they held the ethers of their planes in harmony with God.
33) Now, when the ethers reached the rate of atmosphere, and all the creatures
of these planes must get their food from atmosphere, the conflict came; and
then that which the finite man has called survival of the best, became a law,
34) The stronger ate the bodies of the weaker manifests; and here is where the
carnal law of evolution had its rise.
35) And now man, in his utter shamelessness, strikes down and eats the beasts,
the beast consumes the plant, the plant thrives on the earth, the earth absorbs
the protoplast.
36) In yonder kingdom of the soul this carnal evolution is not known, and the
great work of master minds is to restore the heritage of man, to bring him back
to his estate that he has lost, when he again will live upon the ethers of his
native plane.
37) The thoughts of God change not; the manifests of life on every plane unfold
into perfection of their kind; and as the thoughts of God can never die, there
is no death to any being of the seven ethers of the seven Spirits of the Triune
God.
38) And so an earth is never plant; a beast, or bird, or creeping thing is
never man, and man is not, and cannot be, a beast, or bird, or creeping thing.
39) The time will come when all these seven manifests will be absorbed, and
man, and beast, and plant, and earth and protoplast will be redeemed.”
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