The Origin of Evil
Blockquotes from the book: The Origin of the Universe, part two, chapter IV Instinct and pre-animal-like consciousness
Evil originated on the first transition after the first cosmic degree. In Earth terms: evil originated on the first planet after the moon, somewhere else in the universe.
Feeling developed on the first cosmic degree, it was brought about by the material organism. Inner life developed as the material being matured. But there was no instinct yet. The animal-like being had to pass on to an other planet before it was to acquire that attunement of feeling. Instinct revealed itself as hunger and hunger caused man to kill other life. By doing so good and evil were born.
Master Alcar visited the first cosmic degree with André:
‘Feeling has now developed, brought about by the material organism.
Is that clear to you, André?’
‘You mean that according as the material being matured, inner life
developed, Alcar?’
‘Splendid, André, you grasped it. Fundamentally, there is feeling or
action but that feeling, the instinct, is still far away. To that end man
and animal must have attained their mature material degree. I showed
and explained that attunement and mature condition on our previous
journey. You have seen these beings on the shore when many had already
died. That is, as you know, the highest degree for man in the fishlike
stage; but there is no instinct yet. The animal-like being had to
pass on to an other planet before it was to acquire that attunement of
feeling. Here, there was only action, it cannot be termed instinct or
consciousness. It will therefore be clear to you, that inner life could not
attain the degree of consciousness one has on earth, because this is the
initial stage of material and spiritual life. Inner life is not ahead of
material life, and this process or development is reflected on earth, as I
will explain to you there. If there was no reincarnation, there would be
no development for animal and man either and we would have suffocated
during this stage.’
‘All those children of God who had reached the shores on this planet, were ready to accept subsequent life. From that time onward the instinct and a will of their own awakened. This will that man possesses is contained in this process. Man received a body and independence, but inner life, the animation for that organism, awakened on the first transition. The Divine Spark, therefore, is the personal will, the animation; it is activity, feeling and thinking; it is the driving power for material life and the return to God. Whatever form animating life has, it owns that will and that Divine Spark; it is independent and can do as it pleases. That is why inner life will be born again, pass on into thousands of lives and awaken in those lives, in order to reach the Divine Spheres. Thousands of transitions are required and, André, that is the purpose of the material and spiritual life; two worlds for material and spiritual man, as the visible and invisible wonder of creation. Invisible man drives the material being, passes from one body on to the next, causing life of the soul to awaken.’
They moved on to the first transition after the first cosmic degree.
‘Look, there is the first transition we visited on our journey and that
I connected you with. There is no life here either; but I showed it to
you and I’ll do so again. In front of you, you see the human beings
which lived here.’
André began to observe.
‘When man passed on, I mean inner man, animating life, a material
organism was ready for animating life to descend into. Though it was
not possible on the first cosmic degree, it could happen here. The urge
the being had on the first cosmic degree, it received on this planet;
instinct was born here because a different material organism was available.
Now that the lower part of the body had split and inner life had
advanced that far, and as always this perfect balance in everything, in
every transition, the being became aware of its ability and crept on and
that was the first progress of the human being on the negotiable planet.
During this process instinct awakened. During the first steps it took,
the being experienced such events and, after a short while, it meant the
end of its material existence. During the next stages the material organism
became more perfect, it advanced to its proper attunement and
accepted its existence for this planet. It looked for food and in doing so
it passed into a degree of feeling: the instinct.
We have now come to the phenomenon instinct. Thus awakened
what is called instinct. The human but pre-animal-like being felt hungry,
caused and evoked by its material organism. It was to become selfsupporting
and with it, instinct developed. Now man lived on the planet,
which was not possible on the first cosmic degree and it will no doubt
be clear to you that man had to awake here. Now that man had accepted
an existence and had advanced that far, it gave inner life experience,
and this experience was an activity evoked from within, which
revealed itself as feeling hungry.’
So man received on the first transition a different material organism. The being became aware of its ability to creep over the planet. It looked for food and in doing so it passed into a degree of feeling: the instinct. The instinct revealed itself as feeling hungry.
‘Thus, the material organism gave birth
to the instinct, and it was on this planet that man advanced to a will of
his own, which he used. On this same planet all those experiences graded
up the growth process for both organisms, the process of evolution
commenced and pre-animal-like consciousness was born, which meant
good and evil for man, though he was unaware of it.
Here, André, man killed for the first time and good and evil were
born; man broke a law, as I told you. Here, man forgot himself; he
became ruler and destroyer of everything, of all this pure love he received
from God. Man lived here in a pre-animal-like condition and
this animal-like being was to become the Divine being. It was the beginning
of that eternal road towards perfection and it would take billions
of years.
Life here had only one feeling, which was hunger, activated by the
material organism.’
In the search for food man killed other life and so evil was created, though he was unaware of it.
