Evolution of Consciousness: From Plants to Human Spiritual Development

It is possible, we can utilize them, but from the point of view of emotions, these plants have not yet developed an emotional body. They are capturing, they are building an emotional body. Therefore they respond, they react to some fundamental emotions. For example, if you are careful and attentive with a plant, it grows more while, if you shout at a plant... various experiments were also made with music on these things. But the astral body, that is, the emotions, the aspect of plants is still very elementary.

For animals, we see that the physical body of animals is very, very... The organs are indeed perfected. They are totally functional. So it is no longer an aggregate of matter, no longer something rudimentary, it is something very perfected. The etheric aspect is also developed with various organs and the emotional aspect - they can experience emotions. So they possess an astral body, but, clearly, from the mental point of view, they are still building a mental body. Therefore, they are only capable of very, very elementary thoughts. For example, it is demonstrated that there are dogs and crows that know how to count. Crows, for example, know how to count up to five. And dogs also know how to count up to five and the technique to discover this was that, if you have a female dog with five small dogs, up to five she can see, understand the absence of one of these. After this number, if there are seven, six or eight, she cannot count.

While we are more developed and have a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body also more structured, with various, more organs, which are called centers of astral forces and we have a developed mental body, we can reason, think rationally, but the causal body, that is, this abstract mind, for us, is not yet so developed. It is still an empty ball of air, that is, it is not yet dynamized matter, structured with organs so developed that allow us to have a relational life on this plane. Therefore, to do this, it is necessary to have an evolution.

First of all, awaken this consciousness on this plane, develop organs that are called centers of force - the chakras that you have surely heard about on various occasions. There are various chakras, but the true chakras, those that we must develop, are these organs or centers of force, psychic and spiritual organs of this causal body. This causal body must, as it were, be born. First of all, it is necessary to purify, activate this body, the matter of this body, make it active and organize it giving it a structure through these centers of force, these chakras, according to a specific model, not casual. This is our objective.

So, when this is done perfectly and this body is sufficient to maintain a relational life on this abstract plane, then we speak of being reborn - the individual who was reborn, was born of spirit. Why? Because now he is no longer in the static world, in the formal world, in the world of form, in the three-dimensional world, in the limited and mortal world, but was born, had access to what is this spiritual, superior world, where there is another relational life.

Question - Does this mean that, with time, all this evolves? That is, many years ago, in history, for example, were minerals less developed?

Very well. Yes, it was like this: in Antiquity there was a symbol that represented initiation - it is called the flux and reflux of universal life because it was represented thus. That is, you have surely seen these two serpents. You have surely seen them in the pharmacy. This is the symbol Hermes - the Caduceus of Hermes. One of these two snakes is black and the other is white. They represent two currents of cosmic consciousness. That is, this one that is black represents the materializing current, a course, an evolution in the course of millions of millions - the time that does not make much sense like how long a dream lasts. The dream is a state of consciousness very close to ours. Imagine how long a mineral state lasts - one second for a mineral is 20 thousand years for us. So time is not very significant, external time is not very useful. A descending current of materialization - so there is a mineral phase, a state of mineral consciousness that is equivalent to the state of consciousness that we have in a deep coma. Then vegetables, then animals and then the state of consciousness of men.