HOW DOES A UNIVERSAL PHILOSOPHY AND
RELIGION
APPROACH THE UNIVERSE?
EVOLUTION
Reason asks:
"Can something be created out of nothing?"
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
"Modern scientific man will tell you, you can
only get the amount of energy out of a machine which
you've previously put into it.
Something can't be produced out of nothing. If a man
is an evolution of the mollusk, then the perfect man-the
Buddha-man, the Christ-man was evolved in the mollusk.
If it isn't so, whence come these gigantic personalities?
Something can't come out of nothing. Thus we're in
the position of reconciling the scriptures with modern
light. That energy which manifests itself slowly through
various stages until it becomes the perfect man, can't
come out of nothing. It existed somewhere; and if
the mollusk or the protoplasm is the first point to
which you can trace it, that protoplasm, somehow or
other, must have contained the energy."
Potential exists within everything
We see then, that nothing can be created out of nothing.
Everything exists through eternity, and will exist
through eternity. Only the movement is in succeeding
waves and hollows, going back to fine forms, and coming
out into gross manifestations. This involution and
evolution is going on throughout the whole of nature.
The whole series of evolution beginning with the lowest
manifestation of life and reaching up to the highest,
most perfect man, must have been the involution of
something else.
The next question is: The involution of what?
What was involved?
God.
The evolutionist will tell you this idea, is wrong.
Why? Because God is intelligent, but we find that
intelligence develops later on in the course of evolution.
It's in man and the higher animals that we find intelligence,
but millions of years have passed before intelligence
came.
This objection of the evolutionists doesn't hold
water, as we'll see by applying our theory.
The tree comes out of the seed, goes back to the seed;
the beginning and the end are the same. The earth
comes out of its cause and returns to it. We know
that if we can find the beginning we can find the
end. E converso, if we find the end we can find the
beginning. If that's so, take this whole evolutionary
series, from the protoplasm at the one end, to the
perfect man at the other, and this whole series is
one life. In the end we'll find the perfect man, so
in the beginning it must have been the same. Therefore,
the protoplasm was the involution of the highest intelligence.
You may not see it but that involved intelligence
is what's uncoiling itself until it becomes manifested
in the most perfect man.
Higher energies and truths have to come from someplace within nature
That can be mathematically demonstrated. If the law
of conservation of energy is true, you cannot get
anything out of a machine unless you put it in there
first.
The amount of work that you get out of an engine is
exactly the same as you've put into it in the form
of water and coal, neither more nor less. The work
I'm doing now is just what I put into me, in the shape
of air, food, and other things. It's only a question
of change and manifestation. There can't be added
in the economy of this universe, one particle of matter
or one foot-pound of force, nor can one particle of
matter or one foot-pound of force be taken out.
If that be the case, what is this intelligence? If
it wasn't present in the protoplasm, it must have
come all of a sudden, something coming out of nothing,
which is absurd.
It therefore follows absolutely, that the perfect
man, the free man, the God-man, who has gone beyond
the laws of nature, and transcended everything, who
longer has to go through this process of evolution,
through birth and death, that man called the "Christ-man"
by the Christians, and the "Buddha-man"
by the Buddhists, and the "Free" by the
Yogis, that perfect man who is at one end of the chain
of evolution, was involved in the cell of the protoplasm,
which is at the other end of the same chain.
Applying the same reason to the whole of the universe,
we see that intelligence must be the Lord of creation,
the cause.
What's the most evolved notion that man has of this
universe? It's intelligence, the adjustment of part
to part, the display of intelligence, of which the
ancient design theory was an attempt at expression.
The beginning was, therefore, intelligence. At the
beginning that intelligence becomes involved, and
in the end that intelligence gets evolved.
The unfolding of transcendence
The sum total of the intelligence displayed in the
universe must, therefore, be the involved universal
intelligence unfolding itself.
This universal intelligence is what we call God. Call
it by any other name, it's absolutely certain that
in the beginning there's that Infinite cosmic intelligence.
This cosmic intelligence gets involved, and it manifests,
evolves itself, until it becomes the perfect man,
the "Christ-man," the "Buddha-man."
Then it goes back to its own source. That's why all
the scriptures say, "In Him we live and move
and have our being." That's why all the scriptures
preach that we come from God and go back to God. Don't
be frightened by theological terms; if terms frighten
you, you're not fit to be philosophers. This cosmic
intelligence is what the theologians call God. -
