HPB-SD(ed.1) v.2 p.1 st.10 sl.38-39 ch.Archaic Teachings: Difference between revisions

But we would ask, what does science and its exact and now axiomatic discoveries prove against ''our ''Occult theory ? Those who believe in the law of Evolution and gradual progressive development from a cell (which from a ''vital ''has become a morphological cell, until it awoke as protoplasm pure and simple) — these can surely never limit their belief to one line of evolution. The types of life are innumerable ; and the progress of evolution, moreover, does not go at the same rate in every kind of species. The constitution of primordial matter in the Silurian age — we mean “ primordial ” ''matter ''of science — is the same in every essential particular, save its degree of present grossness, as the primordial ''living ''matter of to-day. Nor do we find that which ought to be found, if the now orthodox theory of Evolution were ''quite ''correct, namely, a constant, ever-flowing progress in every species of being. Instead of that, what does one see ? While the intermediate groups of animal being all tend toward a higher type, and while specializations, now of one type and now of another, develop through the geological ages, change forms, assume new shapes, appear and disappear with a kaleidoscopic rapidity in the description of palæontologists from one period to another, the two solitary exceptions to the general rule are those at the two opposite poles of life and type, namely — Man ''and the lower genera of being !''