to be a plant producing seeds. It has an ending state – seeds again falling to the
ground; and so on, and on, and on.
This is the circle of life, and it is common to all manifestations of life as we
know it. And this process can in no way be said to be coincidental or random.
It always has a purpose! The purpose of the seed being to produce the plant in
order to produce seed again.
So if there is nothing random or coincidental about how life manifests
itself in its many forms in the singular, why should it be any different when
we consider it in general – namely life as it has evolved on this earth from its
origins?
Or rather: Why should the origin of species – my Darwinistic sword
which I used against itself – be random and coincidental when everything else
known about life’s appearances are not?
There is, and cannot be, anything coincidental about 100 million atoms
coming together to form a truly simple organism, as a virus. So why should the
general development, this organizing, the origin of species on this planet, be
any different? The millions, nay, billions of years the process of evolution has
been in the making? Not at all!
According to the doctrine of our church, time and space are peculiar to
the natural world. In the spiritual world, from which the natural world comes
into existence – in the words of Arcana Coelestia 8211, whatever exists in the
natural world derives its origins and causes from things which exist in the
spiritual world.
In other words, time and space do not exist there. Instead of time and
space there are states and changes of state. There are initial states, which evolve
into in-between states, which again evolve into ending states. If we keep this
spiritual idea in our minds, and bring it to the theory of evolution, you will see
that it fits exactly. The origin of species on this planet has a state of beginning –
the first living cell. It has an in-between state – the evolution of all the species.
And it has an ending state, which of course is mankind; or better, much, much
better, the ending state is our Lord Jesus Christ, the One True Purpose and
Goal!
The evolution of the different species, all having their place and time,
is probably fully comparable with the evolution and growth of the human
embryo to the new-born baby nine months later.
In the union of the sperm cell and the egg cell there is a conatus, an effort: it
must be! And its purpose is the new-born baby after nine months of continual
development, or evolution,
or growth!
There is, therefore, no reason to think that this very same principle is not
valid when it comes to the origin of species on this earth. That with the first living
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