Involution and evolution

Human beings had to leave the Paradise where they lived
and descend into matter

"Icare"
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'You will never succeed in transforming your lower nature, the personality.

No matter how hard you try, no matter what superhuman efforts you make, you will never change it.

The only thing to do, the only way to change, is to give your divine Nature, the individuality or higher self, the chance to absorb the personality, to make it disappear.

The lower nature, as I have told you, is an emanation of the higher Nature. Because man was curious and wanted to have a greater knowledge of life and the universe, he left Paradise where he lived with God, and descended into matter. This descent is called involution. It was accomplished at the expense of man’s radiance, his lightness, for he was compelled to take on the density and weight of the lower bodies, the mental, astral and physical bodies.

But it is also a fact that man is predestined to return to his original country, his celestial abode, and that ascent is called evolution. When he abandons his lower bodies and lives only in his higher bodies, the causal, buddhic and atmic bodies, he becomes a divinity.

The earth (whose evolution takes place simultaneously and along parallel lines with man’s evolution) will then lose its density and heaviness, it will become transparent, radiant with light, and all will melt into the heart of God and be one with him.

That is the Teaching of the initiates, the Initiatic Science.

It will not happen for a few million years, do not worry! If it makes you anxious, realize that so much time has to elapse before the world can change that you will be sick and tired of the world as it is, and you will want it to happen.

What I am saying agrees with all the esoteric, religious traditions, they all teach that man must become once again what he was originally.

For the moment he is caught somewhere between heaven and hell, having erred for so long and changed his abode so often he no longer knows where to go. He has forgotten all the ancient knowledge, and that is why he needs a guide; in the past he was guided by his own light, but now he has lost it, he cannot see.

So, most humans live out their lives torn between uncertainty and anguish, wondering what is the meaning of life and what happens after death.

Thus, human being needs to be shown the path. Those who understand will make the decision at once, the others will have to go through many experiences, but sooner or later all will understand.'

"The return"
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