Evolution And Society

Instead of pleasing God, modern children are taught to "please evolution," as it were. They are taught that the human race was thrown up out of Chaos by blind chance ("or God, if you like," the teachers used to tell us. I don't know if they can still say things like that in an American public school). Blind chance may just as easily throw us away again, and so the obvious necessity in the grim struggle for survival is to find a way to defeat both blind chance and all other competing species at the same time. Thus, we are taught, Mankind has constructed society, and society has so far proved the most effective step toward permanence that evolution has ever taken.

Society in this sense means the banding together of creatures of like mentality and structure for the purpose of prolonging the lives of the individuals of the community or species. This is done, apparently, by crippling, castrating or annihilating all other species of life. It is a concept of sophisticated bestiality, more ferocious in both fact and theory than the ravages of plague or the march of an ant army. And it is based on ignorance as utter as that of an ant-no, more profound yet, because the ant is at least acting as an ant. The human consciousness is capable of "graduating" from the school of evolution into the "workaday" world of spiritual life, and unless it is used in this way, it's not human at all.

And the great ignorance here is the idea that killing other creatures, or trying to control the intricate functions of Nature, will lead to eternal existence either for oneself or one's race or species. This is like trying to tune in a television station on a radio receiver. The body is product of material Nature, and the first law of Nature is change. Therefore the body, in one form or another, must die. It is only the soul-or consciousness, if you like-which goes on, because this consciousness, in its purified state, is independent of Nature.