EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN IN THE SECRET DOCTRINE by HP Blavatsky

Author:HP Blavatsky
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Theosophy Trust Books
Published: 2016-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

Selection 24

SCIENCE IS AS INCONSISTENT AS WAS ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL THEOLOGY IN THEIR INTERPRETATIONS OF THE SO-CALLED REVELATION

It is just what we can never repeat too often, though the voices of both Occultists and Roman Catholics are raised in the desert. Nevertheless, no one can fail to see that Science is as inconsistent, to say the least, in its modern speculations, as was ancient and mediæval theology in its interpretations of the so-called Revelation. Science would have men descend from the pithecoid ape – a transformation requiring millions of years – and yet fears to make mankind older than 100,000 years! Science teaches the gradual transformation of species, natural selection, and evolution from the lowest form to the highest, from mollusc to fish, from reptile to bird and mammalian. Yet it refuses to man, who physiologically is only a higher mammal and animal, such transformation of his external form. But if the monstrous iguanodon of the Wealden may have been the ancestor of the diminutive iguana of today, why could not the monstrous man of the Secret Doctrine have become the modern man – the link between Animal and Angel? Is there anything more unscientific in this”theory,” than in that of refusing to man any spiritual immortal Ego, making of him an automaton, and ranking him, at the same time, as a distinct genus in the system of Nature? Occult Sciences may be less scientific than the present exact Sciences, they are withal more logical and consistent in their teachings. Physical forces, and natural affinities of atoms may be sufficient as factors to transform a plant into an animal, but it requires more than a mere interplay between certain material aggregates and their environment to call to life a fully conscious man, even though he were no more indeed than a ramification between two “poor cousins” of the Quadrumanous order. Occult Sciences admit with Hæckel that (objective) life on our globe “is a logical postulate of Scientific natural history,” but add that the rejection of alike Spiritual involution, from within without, of invisible subjective Spirit-life – eternal and a Principle in Nature – is more illogical, if possible, than to say that the Universe and all in it has been gradually built by blind forces inherent in matter, without any external help.

Suppose an Occultist were to claim that the first grand organ of a cathedral had come originally into being in the following manner. First, there was a progressive and gradual elaboration in Space of an organizable material, which resulted in the production of a state of matter named organic PROTEIN. Then, under the influence of incident forces, those states having been thrown into a phase of unstable equilibrium, they slowly and majestically evolved into and resulted in new combinations of carved and polished wood, of brass pins and staples, of leather and ivory, wind-pipes and bellows. After which, having adapted all its parts into one harmonious and symmetrical machine, the organ suddenly pealed forth Mozart’s Requiem. This was followed by a Sonata of Beethoven, etc.

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