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Eurípedes Kühl |
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Evolution
of the
Intelligent
PrincipLe
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Spirits - Origin
- Creation
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When Allan
Kardec codified
the Doctrine of
the Spirits, he
asked the
Spirits
(Questions nos.
78, 79 and 81 of
The Book of
Spirits),
about their
origin and how
they were
created. The
High Spirits
answered him: -
How and when,
nobody knows,
and this is a
mystery. The
source is also a
mystery. And
they added: -
The Spirits are
the
individualization
of the
Intelligent
Principle and
God creates them
constantly.
Further,
regarding
Question 613 of
The Book of
Spirits,
Kardec recorded:
The starting
point of the
Spirit is one of
those issues
that relate to
the origin of
things and God
keeps it a
secret. It is
not supposed to
absolutely be
known by man.
Therefore, man
can only make
assumptions
about it. The
Spirits,
themselves, are
far from knowing
everything. And
about what they
do not know,
they can also
have more or
less wise
personal
opinions. This
is why, for
example, that
not all think
the same way
regarding the
relationship
between man and
animals.
According to
some, the Spirit
only reaches the
human condition,
after having
gone through the
different levels
of Creation’s
lower beings.
According to
others, the
Spirit of man
always belonged
to the human
race, without
going through
the animal
stage.
(..). All these
are mysteries
and it is
useless to try
and clarify
them, because,
as we said,
nothing can be
done besides
building systems
(…) the present
knowledge is not
important for
our progress and
its mysterious
relationships
between men and
animals would be
of no use to us.
This, we repeat,
is one of God’s
secrets.
I do not know if
I
understand well
these words of
Kardec, but here
they seem to
signal that the
Encoder decided
not to endorse
or disapprove
the details of
the stages of
the Intelligent
Principle in the
lower kingdoms.
His thought was
that, since the
origin of the
Spirit is a
secret of God,
it is no use for
man to try and
decode it.
But ... there
are many
Spiritist
scholars, who,
with a lot of
good will and
reliability,
express their
thoughts about
it, in
particular about
the initial
eventual
permanence of
the Spirit –
after it was
created and
still in the
phase of the
Intelligent
Principle – in
the mineral and
vegetal
kingdoms…
Such conclusions
are unanimous,
and some are in
favor, and
others against.
However, all are
duly driven,
according to the
bibliography
that supports
them. Despite
the controversy
on the Spiritual
fact, it is only
unanimous that
one day the
human being was
an irrational
animal.
And here,
thinking about
this matter, I
add…
Ideas about the
Creation of man
- Secular
beliefs told us
about “an
Earthly
Paradise"
(Eden), where
Adam and Eve
lived, and that
this Paradise
was lost due to
the recklessness
(?) of both…
Sciences
(Archaeology,
Biology,
Physics, and
Chemistry)
record the
evolutionary
steps of man,
contemplating
the
"evolutionism".
Note: Modern
Science refutes
"creationism"
(doctrine that
defends that God
creates the soul
of each person
by infusing it
in the body).
The Christians,
with a
fundamentalist
tendency, invoke
the biblical
narratives
(Genesis I, II
and IX) to
justify how the
species
appeared.
Spiritism,
declaring the
Divine Justice
and
reincarnation,
on board of a
"reasoned faith"
records the
evolutionary
steps of the
Spirit (or
"Spiritual
man"). In short,
it declares:
- God is the
uncreated
Creator of
everything and
everyone;
- The Universal
Cosmic Fluid
emanates from
God, and it is
divided into:
Spiritual
principle:
(Monad
which is the
Intelligent
Principle, and
when it evolves,
it becomes a
Spirit). The
Spirit Andre
Luiz, in
"Evolution in
Two Worlds",
Chapter III,
item
Evolution and
Spiritual Body,
pages 31-32, 11th
Edition, 1989
FEB, RJ/RJ
defined
"heavenly monad"
as the
Intelligent
Principle in its
first
manifestations,
i. e., in the
first phase of
the evolution of
the living
being.
The Spirit
Emmanuel in "The
Path of Light",
Chapter I, Item
The Word in
the Earth's
Creation, 13th
Edition, 1985
FEB, RJ/RJ
details how life
began on Earth
and records when
the first
steps were given
on how to
organize life,
adding that
protoplasm was
born within the
orb and with it
"Jesus casted
the sacred germ
of the first men
on the surface
of world”.
Material
Principle:
(all the matter
in the
Universe).
Early stages of
the Intelligent
Principle
– Not opening
the door to
polemics I
hereby express
my way of
thinking, which
does in no way
express any
boldness or
disrespect
towards Kardec:
thinking and
analyzing, I
believe (it is
only my opinion)
that the
Intelligent
Principle did,
in fact, go
through the
mineral,
vegetal, and
animal kingdoms.
Being it an
unconscious
“Spiritual
cell”, I believe
that, after its
creation,
sidereal spirits
fully monitored
the initial
stages in those
two kingdoms.
In the mineral
kingdom
I find myself
thinking that it
is in its
passage through
the mineral
kingdom that the
Intelligent
Principle
automatically
absorbs a
conditioning
that will
accompany it
through all the
other stages:
the atomic
aggregation
(union ordered
from atom to
atom forming a
single body) and
still
incorporates
expressive
nuances of the
forces of
attraction and
molecular
cohesion. As an
example, I
mention the
well-ordered
crystalline
systems or
crystallographic
systems (a
mineral has a
crystalline
structure, i.e.,
the atoms that
form it are
distributed
orderly in
space).
Flying low (and
therefore soon
coming down) I
recall that our
physical body –
a wonder that
only Divine
Wisdom could
create – is all
of it originated
from the mineral
kingdom.
I am supported
by the following
opinions:
- Jorge Andrea
dos Santos,
devoted
Spiritist
scholar, in
"Creative
Impulses of
Evolution",
Chapter I, item
Origin of
Life, page
42, 3rd
edition, 1995
Spiritist
Publishing
Society FVLorenz,
RJ / RJ: -.
Millions and
millions of
years go by and
the pure
energies,
unaware of its
mechanics, with
no experience,
run along the
evolutionary
scale... It is
the Intelligent
Principle
marching,
victorious, in a
constant and
orderly search:
the
individualization!
- Leon Denis in
“The Problem of
the Being, of
Fate and Pain",
1st
Part, IX,
Evolution and
Purpose of the
Soul, page
123, 17th
Edition, 1993
FEB, RJ/RJ:
In a plant the
intelligence is
asleep; in an
animal it is
like a dream;
only in man does
it wake up,
becomes aware of
itself, owns
itself and
becomes
conscious; from
there onwards,
progress, in
some way fatal
in lower forms
of nature, can
only be
accomplished
through the
concordance of
human will and
the Eternal
laws.
- J. Herculano
Pires in "Agony
of Religions",
Chapter VI, item
The Creation
of Man, 3rd
Edition, 1989
Edition Paideia,
SP/SP: The
ore is born from
the atom;
from the ore,
the vegetal; and
from the latter,
man; and from
man, the Angel,
the Archangel
and as many
Spiritual
creatures we
want to list.
- The Spirit
Andre Luiz,
through the
psychographics
of Chico Xavier,
in the book "In
the Greatest
World", Chapter
3, The Mental
House, page
45, 7th
Edition, 1977
FEB, RJ/RJ
repeats the
words of
Calderaro, the
Instructor:
The chrysalis of
consciousness,
which lies in
the crystal
rolling on the
river current,
is in a
liberation
process; the
trees that
sometimes
straighten
themselves for
hundreds of
years,
withstanding the
winter blows and
cherished by the
caresses of
spring, are
conquering the
memory; the
female tiger,
licking the
newly born
little tigers,
is learning the
rudiments of
love; the
squealing monkey
is beginning to
learn how to
talk.
- Still Andre
Luiz, in the
aforementioned "Evolution
in Two Worlds",
Part 1, Chapter
III:
From the
atomic
crystallization
and from the
minerals,
viruses and the
protoplasm of
the bacteria ...
the Intelligent
Principle tested
for
millennia...;
from stage to
stage… the
Monad, poured
from the
Spiritual Plan
on the Physical
Plane, crossed
the most
elementary
sieves of
adaptation.
- From the same
author and work,
Part 1, Chapter
VI: Genealogy
of the Spirit
(…) With the
Heavenly
Supervision the
Intelligent
Principle took,
since the
viruses and
bacteria of the
early hours of
the protoplasm
on Earth, more
or less fifteen
million
centuries to be
able to, as a
thinking being,
although in
embryonic stage
of reason, cast
its first issues
of continuous
thought to the
Cosmic Spaces.
In the plant
kingdom
Again the Spirit
Andre Luiz,
throughout the
work "Evolution
in Two Worlds,"
mentions the
evolutionary
stages and
characteristics
of the plants:
-
Manifestations +
advanced
(photosynthesis,
for example).
- Birth /
feeding / growth
/ reproduction /
death
- Initial
expressions of
sensitivity
- Initial
expressions of
sexuality:
- Phanerogams
plants (hermaphroditism)
(Phaneros =
apparent + gams
= marriage)
(Apparent
reproductive
organs =
flowers)
- Cryptogamic
plants (sexual
reproduction)
(Kryptos =
hidden + gams =
marriage)
- The cosmic
determinism will
guide the plant
colonies to a
standard
procedure, to
the limit where
animal life
begins, which
species act from
instinct always
in the same
manner.
- Vegetal
colonies of the
same species
were gathered
together and
simultaneously
coexisting with
immense and
several
varieties of
other plants
(forests, for
example) in
gregariousness
which can be an
expression of
rudimentary
psyche.
My opinion,
therefore very
personal, is
that the
Intelligent
Principle -
stays in the
mineral kingdom,
and then in the
vegetal kingdom
(these two
stages sum
thousands and
thousands of
years, who
knows?), where
they are
coupled, by
and under
the order and
supervision of
Sidereal
Spirits, agents
duly backed by
Jesus, as Christ
(anointed by
God):
- The mineral
kingdom:
molecular
aggregation
system, i.e.,
the union of
atoms.
Recalling that
in the future it
will be more
fragmented
minerals that
will form the
molecules of the
organic bodies
of all living
beings;
- The plants:
allocation of
vitality and of
the sublime
metabolisms of
organic life
(birth, growth,
reproduction,
death, rebirth,
and so on).
After that each
Intelligent
Principle
becomes
individualized
(Question 79
"The Book of
Spirits"),
enters the
animal kingdom
and, I think, it
is then awarded
by the Superior
Spirits
(Ministers of
God?) a "soul
inferior to man"
(Question 597
"The Book of
Spirits"); the
Intelligent
Principle
undergoes a
transformation
and becomes a
Spirit (Question
607, Ibid).
From then on,
the species are
subject to the
Divine Law of
Progress, i. e.
they have to go
through the long
evolution path.
Note: With
reference to the
evolution of
species: animals
that are
humanized (this
is another
controversial
topic). Yvonne
A. Pereira and
Andre Luiz refer
only to very few
species.
However,
Theosophy is
prodigal about
this issue… But
this intriguing
subject has here
no appropriate
space for
reflections.
I emphasize that
I am one of
those who
believe that in
the first two
stages the
Intelligent
Principle (the
Monad) is fully
unconscious and
tutored by
Higher Spirits.
The Spirit Andre
Luiz records
that this
protection
remains
partially in
animals when
they receive
their
physiological
control
functions,
specific to each
species.
Returning to the
Intelligent
Principle: I
have no news
that any Spirit
has said that
there is a soul
in an animal or
plant.
Kardec records
that this only
occurs from
animals onwards.
In fact, I
consider it
impossible to
believe that a
cliff, with
billions of
years has a
"soul"; the same
for plants, some
of them
millenary.
However, I
accept that they
may be the
cradle of future
souls (the
Intelligent
Principle).
Anyway, I would
be a great fool
to imagine that
my views are
"certainties".
All of them are
only product of
analyzes,
reflections
regarding mere
possibilities.
Following is the
opinion of some
Spiritist
scholars on this
subject:
Spiritist
Conceptions
- As already
mentioned, this
a controversial
matter among
Spiritists, from
Kardec to our
days. By the
way, Kardec
predicted it...
If Science
defines matter
as organic and
inorganic, on
the other hand
Spiritism
believes that
the kingdoms are
four: mineral,
vegetal, animal
and hominal. (I
add one more:
the Angelic
Kingdom).
Two questions
about this
exciting matter:
- The
Intelligent
Principle, when
created, does it
start an
evolutionary
stage in the
lower kingdoms
(mineral and
vegetal), only
in the animal
kingdom, or
directly in the
hominal kingdom?
- If it comes
from lower
kingdoms, where
did it
accomplish its
stage?
There are
several studies
and opinions on
this matter. I
list some of
them:
In the mineral
kingdom
(in the
primitive
protoplasm)
Gabriel Delanne,
in "The
Evolution of the
Soul", Chapter
6, item
Cosmic Evolution,
7th
edition, 1992
FEB, RJ/RJ:
Protoplasm = it
is within the
primitive
seas... that
this viscous
mass was formed,
the first
manifestation of
intelligent
life, which
develops in a
progressive and
parallel manner,
and produces a
countless number
of plant and
animal forms, so
as to reach,
after a series
of centuries or
millennia, the
work so
patiently
pursued: - the
appearance of
the conscious
being - man.
Regarding
Question 540 of
"The Book of
Spirits":
"Everything is
linked together
in Nature: from
the primitive
atom to the
Archangel, who
also began as
atom".
Still in “The
Book of
Spirits”,
Question 607:
- (..). Can one
consider the
soul to have
been the
Intelligent
Principle of
Creation’s
inferior beings?
- (…) It is in
these beings
("Creation’s
inferior
beings"), which
we are far from
knowing their
total, that the
Intelligent
Principle is
elaborated,
becomes
gradually
individualized
and rehearses
for life. In a
certain way it
is a preparatory
work, such as
germination,
through which
the Intelligent
Principle
suffers a change
and becomes
Spirit.
(Here we have a
clear statement
that the
Intelligent
Principle
becomes a
Spirit).
But, as we shall
see further on,
some of these
statements have
been altered
with time...
In the plant
kingdom
Question 591 of
"The Book of
Spirits":
"In the higher
worlds, plants
are always
plants, animals
are always
animals and men
are always men".
So, I'll just
move on to the
animal kingdom,
whose records in
the Codification
practically
exclude that the
Intelligent
Principle has
matured both in
the mineral and
in vegetal
kingdoms (I said
there is no
consensus)…
In the animal
kingdom
Some Spiritists
accept the
creation of the
Intelligent
Principle from
the animal
kingdom onwards,
considering that
Questions nos.
606 and 607 of
the "The Book of
Spirits" are not
object to such
an
interpretation.
They are based
on Question no.
606:
"The Human and
Animal Soul
emanate from a
single
principle,
however, in man
it went through
a development
that puts it
above the soul
that exists in
the animal".
Andre Luiz in
"Missionaries of
Light", Chapter
13, page 234, 21st
edition, 1988
FEB, RJ/RJ says
through
Alexandre:
(…). Remember
that the most
perfect bodies
of our Planetary
Home initially
come from the
amoeba".
In the hominal
kingdom
Here, there is
no controversy,
even because
Question 115 of
“The Book of
Spirits”
clarifies:
"God created all
Spirits, simple
and ignorant”.
But if it is in
the hominal
kingdom that the
Intelligent
Principle
changes into
Spirit (Question
no. 607 of “The
Book of
Spirits”), then
we ask: and
where was it
before?
Anyway,
"entering the
Humanity period"
the Spirit will
be equipped by
Providence with
three sublime
capabilities
with which it
will head
towards
Eternity:
A. Continuous
thinking and
intelligence
B. Free will
C. Awareness
(where the Moral
Laws are
recorded).
Author's Note:
I suggest that
those, who are
interested in
more and better
reflections
about the
progress of the
Spirit, since
its creation,
read judicious
and wisely the
following
informative
work: THE
EVOLUTION OF THE
INTELLIGENT
PRINCIPLE,
Durval Ciamponi,
2001, Edition
FEESP, SP/SPAGE.
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