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Jorge Hessen |
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The upward march
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Man’s ancestors |
Did “cave” men
have deep
awareness?
"Researchers at
the University
of York have
discovered that
the Neanderthal
man had a great
sense of
compassion. The
conclusion came
through
archaeological
evidence and by
watching how
emotions took
place in our
ancestors six
million years
ago, when man
and chimpanzees’
ancestors,
common to both,
experienced the
awakening of the
first feelings.
For
archaeologists,
about 1.8
million years
ago, Homo
erectus had a
sense of
compassion with
rational thought
evidenced
through actions
such as to care
for the sick and
to pay special
attention to the
dead,
demonstrating
grief and desire
to soften the
others’
suffering.”
(1)
We believe that
the graves
dating from the
Paleolithic era
have proven
already that at
that time they
already believed
in life after
death and in the
power or
influence of
their ancestors
on the daily
life of the
family group.
Clan members
practiced rites
in honor of
their dead in
fear of
reprisals, or to
be benefited, or
by the simple
fact of
considering them
deified beings.
Now, the
puzzling
question is how
did primate
become hominid?
The answer is
still unknown.
There is still a
“missing link",
the biological
species that
represents this
transition. "It
can be said that
due to the
influence and
intellectual
action of more
developed
Spirits (than
the apes), the
wrap has
changed, became
more refined,
maintaining its
general shape.
With the
improvement of
the body, and
enlightenment of
the Spirit, a
new species
appeared.”
(2) Allan
Kardec explains
that "we do not
know how the
Spirits were
created, where
do they come
from. We only
know that they
are created
simple and
ignorant, i.e.,
with no science
and no
knowledge,
however, with
the possibility
of becoming
perfect and of
acquiring all
and know all”.(3)
The Spirit
Andre Luiz
states that "to
reach the age of
reason, with the
title of man
endowed with
reasoning and
judgment, the
being automated
in its impulses
and on its way
to the angelic
kingdom, it took
nothing less
than a billion
and a half
years”.(4)
Many of the
changes that
took place in
the "homo" were
developed in his
perispiritual
structures,
between one life
and another (i.
e., in the
spiritual
dimension). The
Spirits that
perform as
builders, under
the supervision
of Christ, once
in a while
touched up the
perispirit
forms, and these
changes created
the magnetic
field for future
changes.
Multiple
experiences,
within the
genetic heritage
of our
ancestors,
coordinated by
sidereal
geneticists were
shaping those
forms, which
persisted to the
present time.
Natural
selection was in
charge of doing
away with the
unfit primitive
forms.
Permanent
lineage for all
species
As stated by
Emmanuel,
science seeks
presently for
the legitimate
ancestors of
human beings in
this vast arena
of soul’s
evolution. "In
the Tertiary
period (5),
under the
guidance of
spiritual
spheres, some
anthropoid races
could be seen in
the lower
Pliocene (5.3
million to 1.6
million years
ago). These
apes, man’s
ancestors on
Earth, and the
ancestors of
apes, which
still exist in
the world,
suffered their
evolution at
convergent
points, hence
the serological
kinship between
the body of the
modern man and
of today's
chimpanzee”.(6)
For the
author of
"Surrender",
there was hardly
a "coming down
the tree" at the
beginning of
human evolution.
"The spiritual
forces that
guide the
earthly
phenomena, under
the guidance of
Christ,
established, at
the time of the
great
malleability of
the elements of
matter, a
definitive
lineage for all
species, within
which the
spiritual
principle would
find the process
of its
purification in
its march to
reach
rationality”.
(7)
The anthropoids
of the caves
spread then in
groups through
the Earth, in
the slow course
of the
centuries,
suffering the
influences of
the environment
and forming the
early
indications of
the future races
in its diverse
types; the
reality,
however, is that
the spiritual
entities helped
the silex man,
giving him new
biological
expressions.
The millennia
saw these
drastic
experiences of
the these beings
with "long arms
and very hairy,
until one day
the invisible
Spirits operated
a definite
transition in
the existing
perispiritual
body of these
men, and the
first primitive
men appeared
with an improved
body, tending to
the elegance of
the future”.(8)
Death and
"civilization"
Man only begins
to be a Man when
he starts to
bury his dead,
so says the
historian,
Anibal de
Almeida
Fernandes, on
"The Genealogy
as a basic
factor in the
formation of
Civilization",
and concludes:
It is the
dividing line
between the
animal and the
first man, and
it occurred
about 40,000
years ago with
the Homo sapiens
and the Homo
Neanderthal,
even before
agriculture was
known, and it is
the beginning of
Human History.
Worshipping the
dead began,
therefore, at a
very early date
and it can be
found in almost
all religions.
Primitive
communities
inclined to
worship
agriculture and
to the cult of
fertility,
believed
originally that,
by burying their
dead near the
farmland, the
spirits of those
dead bodies
would reappear
stronger, just
as the seeds
planted in
fertile soil,
but they also
believed that
this would
happen as
something secret
and mysterious.
Believing this,
they revered
their dead
nearby the
graves, with
parties and,
above all, with
great joy, a
practice that is
still alive in
some
contemporary
cultures.
The habits of
primitive
peoples changed
due to the
influence of
others, coming
probably from
North Africa
(the Iberians)
and from Central
Europe (the
Celts). Let us
see what one of
the exponents of
the Doctrine
says: "The
celebration of
the dead comes
from the Gauls
(…) but, instead
of celebrating
the memory of
their beloved
ones, their
friends, who
were apart, but
not lost, in
cemeteries,
among the
graves, they did
it at home. And
sometimes these
spirits
manifested
themselves
through the
Druid
priestesses and
the inspired
bards." (9)
The Gauls
evoked their
dead ancestors
in places where
there were rough
stones.
The Druid
(priestesses)
and the bards
(poets and
inspired
speakers) were
true "mediums"
and only they
were allowed to
consult the
oracles (in
Antiquity, it
was the response
of a deity, who
had been
consulted about
a certain
matter). The
Gauls,
therefore, did
not worship the
dead body, but
the surviving
soul, and it was
in the privacy
of each home
that they
celebrated the
memory of their
dead, away from
the catacombs,
differently to
the primitive
peoples.
The arrival of
cosmic aliens
Where did these
“Intelligences”
come from? The
Spirit Emmanuel
clarifies us,
“many millennia
ago, one of the
orbs of “Capela”
(Chapel)
(10),
which holds many
affinities with
our Earth,
reached the top
of one of its
extraordinary
evolutionary
cycles. Some
millions of
rebellious
Spirits, who
lived there, in
their path to
evolution, were
making life
difficult for
the
consolidation of
the tough
achievements of
those people
full of piety
and virtue.
However, an
overall
cleansing took
place,
separating these
Spirits and
getting rid of
them, thus doing
justice to those
who had achieved
permanent peace
and harmony to
build their
superior work”.(11)
The great
spiritual
communities,
principals of
the Cosmos,
"deliberated,
then, to locate
those entities
that had become
obstinate in
crime here in
the distant
Earth. They were
supposed to
accomplish,
through pain and
heavy work on
their
environment, not
only the great
achievements of
their heart, but
also to help and
boost the
progress of
their inferior
brothers. These
distressed and
afflicted beings
would be
banished in the
dark face of the
planet Earth.
Therefore, they
would
reincarnate
within ignorant
and primitive
races, and they
would walk
around despised
in the night of
millennia
feeling sorrow
and longing for
their lost
paradise in
distant
Heavens”.
(12)
Nature still
was, for the
workers of
spirituality, a
vast field of
infinite
experiences; in
such a way that
“if the
observations of
Mendel were
transferred to
those distant
millennia, no
definitive
equation in
their biology
studies would be
found. Modern
genetics would
not fix the term
"genes" because,
in the
laboratory of
the invisible
forces, the
cells still
suffered long
purification
processes, by
printing in them
the astral
elements,
consolidating
the final
expressions,
with a view to
future
organizations”.(13)
Savage
solidarity?
Archaeologists
believe that,
during the
period of time
from 500,000 to
40,000 years
(the
interregnum),
feeling evolved
and the first
humans, such as
the Homo
Heidelbergensis
and the
Neanderthals,
already showed
commitment to
the well-being
of other similar
creatures, shown
during a long
youth and
through need of
hunting
together. We
believe that "we
are not
miraculous
creations,
intended for the
adornment of a
cardboard
paradise. We
are, yes,
children of God
and heirs of the
world,
conquering
values, from one
experience to
another, from
millennium to
millennium."
(14)
With the
conquest of
reason,
reasoning
appears, as well
as clarity, free
will and
continuous
thought. "Until
then, progress
had a
centripetal
direction (from
the outside to
the inside); the
human being grew
by force of
circumstances,
since it was not
aware of his
reality, or his
freedom of
choice. Upon
entering the
hominal kingdom,
the intelligent
principle - now
yes, Spirit - is
able to direct
his life, to
conquer his
values, through
his own efforts,
to begin an
evolution in a
centrifugal
direction (from
the inside to
the outside).”
(15)
But the conquest
of intelligence
is only the
first step that
the Spirit will
give during his
stay in the
hominal kingdom.
"He started the
valiant fight to
conquer the
higher values of
the soul:
responsibility,
sensitivity,
sublimation of
emotions, in
short, all the
conditioning
that will allow
the Spirit raise
up to the
community of
Angelic Beings.”
(16)
Premonitory
dreams, visions
of spirits,
hearing the
voice of the
dead, including
the direct voice
phenomena, and
the
materialization
of spirits were
concrete facts
that led
primitive man to
the belief in
the continuation
of life after
death.
From the
Neanderthals
mediums came
directly the
sorcerers,
ancient priests
of all
religions.
(17)
Earth sentiment
and humanizing
"Man is the
measure of all
things",
according to a
sophist
principle
attributed to
Protagoras.
However, this
measure is based
on affection, so
to speak, and
with no control
of reason.
Therefore,
Herculano Pires
says, "it is by
feeling, and not
by reason, that
the primitive
man humanizes
the world”.
(18) Thus,
scientific
theories are
confirmed when
they state that
the prehistoric
man already had
the feeling of
compassion in
his rational
thinking and
shown through
effective
measures he took
regarding other
similar
creatures.
Notes and
references:
(1) Published in
the Galileo
Magazine
available on
site.
(2) Kardec,
Allan.
“Genesis", Rio
de Janeiro: FEB
1997 Chapter 11,
a. "Hypothesis
on the origin of
the human body".
(3) Kardec,
Allan.
Posthumous
Works, Rio de
Janeiro: FEB,
1999, § 3, First
Part.
(4) Xavier,
Francisco
Candido and
Waldo Vieira.
Evolution in Two
Worlds, dictated
by the Spirit
Andre Luiz, Rio
de Janeiro;
Publisher: FEB,
1994.
(5) The tertiary
and quaternary
designations are
remnants of a
previous
geological
nomenclature,
when they were
used to
distinguish the
younger rocks.
The oldest ones
were then
classified as
primary and
secondary. The
Tertiary era is
subdivided into
five periods:
Paleocene (66.4
to 57.8 million
years), Eocene
(57.8 to 36.6
million years),
Oligocene (36.6
to 23.7 million
years), Miocene
(23.7 to 5.3
million years)
and Pliocene
(5.3 million to
1.6 million
years). The
quaternary
period is
divided in turn
in Pleistocene
(1.6 million
years to ten
thousand years)
and Holocene, or
the present
period (for the
last ten
thousand years).
(6) Xavier,
Francisco
Candido. The
Path of Light,
dictated by the
Spirit Emmanuel,
Rio de Janeiro;
Ed. FEB 1991.
(7) Ibid.
(8) Ibid.
(9) Denis, Leon.
The Celtic
genius and the
invisible world.
Rio de Janeiro:
Publisher: CELD.
1995. Page 180.
(10) Capela
(Chapel) is a
magnificent Sun,
many times
larger than our
Sun. The
distance from
our Earth to
Capela (Chapel)
is measured in
42 light-years.
It is known
since ancient
times. Capela
(Chapel) is a
gaseous star,
according to the
celebrated
astronomer and
physicist Arthur
Stanley
Eddington,
Englishman, and
its matter is so
fluidic matter
that its density
can be mistaken
with the air we
breathe.
(11) Xavier,
Francisco
Candido. The
Path of Light,
dictated by the
Spirit Emmanuel,
Rio de Janeiro;
Publisher: FEB,
1991.
(12) Ibid.
(13) Ibid.
(14) Ibid.
(15) Ibid.
(16) Xavier,
Francisco
Candido and
Waldo Vieira.
Evolution in Two
Worlds, dictated
by the Spirit
Emmanuel, Rio de
Janeiro;
Publisher: FEB,
1994.
(17) Djalma
Argollo.
Mediumship
studies before
Kardec
Codification
http://www.espirito.org.br/portal/artigos/diversos/mediunidade/mediunidade-antes-da-codificacao.html.
(18) J.
Herculano Pires.
The Spirit and
the Time,
Anthropological
Introduction to
Spiritism, Sao
Paulo: Edicel
1979, 3rd
edition.
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