![]() ![]() ![]() Whether Darwin fully realized it or not, the mystical goal of the theory of evolution he championed had always been to become “God.” In The Atman Project, Ken Wilbur lays it out clearly: “If men and women have ultimately come up from amoebas, then they are ultimately on their way towards God.” ![]() In The Descent of Man he wrote: “Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen…to the very summit of the organic scale and the fact of his having risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for the still higher destiny in the distant future.” Barbara Brown of UCLA Medical Center declares that we are “evolving to a higher level of mind… supermind.” At Esalen, the New Age center in the Big Sur area south of San Francisco where the Human Potential movement began, Michael Murphy and George Leonard offered a seminar on “The Evolution of Consciousness,” which suggested that “a transformation of human consciousness as momentous as the emergence of civilization is underway.” Darwin also recognized the spiritual implications of his theory. The goal of evolution, as portrayed for thousands of years before Darwin, has always been to journey through endless reincarnations until union with the Universal Mind, or All, has once again been achieved. New Age leader Robert Muller, for many years Assistant Secretary-General of the United nations, expresses much the same: “I believe that humanity…has a tremendous destiny to fulfill and that a major transformation is about to take place in our evolution.” Muller states clearly: “Decide to open yourself…to the potential of the human race, to the infinity of your inner self, and you will become the universe…at long last your real, divine, stupendous self.” Evolving Upward to Godhood Man, who has sprung from the earth and developed through the lower kingdoms of nature, to his present rational state, has yet to complete his evolution by becoming a god-like being and unifying his conscience with the Omniscient. Wilmhurst in his book The Meaning of Masonry declares: This-the evolution of man into superman-was always the purpose of the ancient mysteries …. Sounding like Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Masonic authority W. And the central core of the ancient mystical theory of evolution is the lie of the serpent to Eve in the Garden, the belief that we are evolving ever upward to godhood. 3 Evolution, Reincarnation, and Witchcraftįar from being a scientific theory of recent origin, evolution was an established religious belief at the heart of occultism and mysticism thousands of years before the Greeks gave it “scientific” status. ![]()
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