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Originally Posted by carlo
For starters it would be clear to comprehend religions's place in the living progression of the individual man. Due to the material intellectual nature of our times most answers speak to the movement of the species such as ape to man or even, by theory, the progression of mineral to man (big bang).
None of these "scientific theories" speak to the individual man, placing him as a unknown object within the warp and woop of a movement in time, more like an interloper within a process to which he is born and dies , leaving his mark, so to speak, but having no effect upon the future to which we are all ( not all , just our progeny to which we are not a part or parcel of) prophesied to enter into that "heat death" better known as entropy.
The inevitable conclusion is that all of which men have credited within the earth; nations, laws, art, music, religion,etc.. is for naught and certainly the individuals short time on earth makes this even more so, in the end we are all dead; the sovereign science of the material.
In short, if we continue to generalize and only speak of "man", the abstraction, and somehow in undercurrent, include the individual as part of this generalization which presupposes forces to which he has no effect, acting within him from birth to death, that unknown force to which "science" will not take consideration and in this the obfuscation of the individual soul, the denial of the spirit.
If the evolution of the individual soul is to be considered rightly then we must approach the problem as to how each and every individual can manifest within our earthly sojourn in progression or even retrogression through the eons of time. I hope to come back and continue but I'll leave with this quote:
"Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”
In the evolution of the individual man we note that at death the physical body is given up to nature and decomposes appropriately. From this it is apparent that nature destroys the physical body of man and any such science which only speaks to the physical body is immersed in the process of decomposition and cannot, and does not , speak to "life".
Pertinent examples are the physicist's approach to particularity, the chemists acid base reactions and the medical Krebs's cycle,all pointing to the destructive process , or that of nature and the corpse of man.
At death or events of extreme distress, the process of "life passing through one's eyes" is well known, anecdotal but none the less telling. This progression of one's life at death which lasts approximately 24-72 hours is the giving up to the cosmos what is known as the "etheric body" of man".
This is not the "ether" to which the material scientists couldn't find in the Michelson-Morley experiment but the "life body" of the individual to which one's memories, thoughts, and thinking activities are ensconced. Includes is the "life" of the individual, and also that which keeps the "form" of the physical body intact until at death, it leaves and enters into the cosmic etheric realm.
Trying not to make it too abstruse one can say that if we observe a sleeping human being he is alive or displays "life" and "physicality" . When "life" leaves we have the panorama experience as the "life body' leaves the physical body and enters into a higher realm, the realm of the spaceless.
Physical Body, Etheric or Formative Force Body....
But of course while sleeping sentience is not evident which leads to a third body of man, or that of the "astral" body . the astral body is no longer connected to the nervous system at sleep and upon awakening it can be noted that the astral body returns to manifest "consciousness".
Within the astral body are encased the passions, desires,feelings and all of such nature to which the human "soul"can be experienced. It is here that the "soul" can be clarified as that which experiences the earthly via the physical and etheric bodies and also reaches its arms up into the higher spiritual realms the realms of the "ego" or "I".
In the astral realm the "soul'" "thinks, feels, and wills".
In this we have the second characteristic of man or that of the 'soul", man as body( physical, etheric) and soul . In the third realm is the "spirit" or the "ego" or "I" realm or that to which man receives his individuality.
The human being as body, soul, and spirit.
If the human being is perceived physiologically then through the nervous system he works within the spiritual through "thinking" the soul nature through the confluence of the respiratory and circulatory flow through "feeling" of the rhythmic balance . He "wills" through the earthly via the "body' or his physicality and etheric natures.
The connection to "evolution" is such that the bodies of men as such within nation,race, gender, etc.. do go through an evolution but not aliken to the modern conceptive passage through the animal but an evolution through which the human soul and spirit enters into and thereby manifests an "evolution of the soul and spirit" .
Therefore there are two evolutionary streams, that of the body and that of the soul/spirit.
Evolution of the Body ...
Evolution of the Soul and Spirit.....
The "body" is man's "temple" that to which he enters into at birth and as like an artists this body become his paints and palette to which the soul and spirit do their manifest workings.
The "body" is not the human being but formed to man by higher divinity which also consists of Beings known to the religious as the higher angelic realms which would be termed in the religious tomes .
The human being, the "spirit and soul" human being , is born out of the spiritual realm , entering into the fetus , growing through youth, middle age, and old age and thereby gaing fruits of his work on the earth.
These fruits cause changes to the being of the soul and spirit and during his sojourn in the world of the soul and spirit after death he becomes a citizen of those worlds , gaining other abilities and upon return entering into a new body, and as changed soul and spirit man.
In the evolution of the soul and spirit the earth is changed and the future morphs into the ennoblement of the human being , as the immortal spirit to which he earns due to his earthly life. Other worlds will arise consequential to the human being and the sense of materiality to which we believe to be the "only" will not longer be and death will be overcome and in this is the guidance of the Christ Being who is now the spirit of the earth as we are the spirits within our bodies.
The "evolution of the body" can become such that decadence will apply but in no way can it be said that the human being will incarnate into the decadent aspect for each man enters into that body to which can offer him the best milieu for his progression and also for the progression all human beings, or the cosmic humanity.