TRIGUEIRINHO - Calling Humanity

contrary, materialism continues expanding. She adds, in another
section of The SecreT DocTrine, that we are at the peak of
materiality: “The animal tendencies, although more refined, are
nonetheless not less nimble, which one can observe, principally
in the civilized countries.” However, all ancient teachings affirm
that “the first human group emanated from the very essence of
superior semi-divine beings, and therefore were very advanced.
But Nature,” continues HPB, “in the present state of evolution,
no longer employs such a process. While in extremely remote ages
there were humans and civilizations in a certain sense much more
advanced than today, now there is a spiritual, intellectual and
animal evolution—but the Creative Forces governing the races are
the ones who now construct the physical form and compel their
evolution towards perfection.” This, according to HPB, is at the
price of an equivalent loss of spirituality.
But there has been a turning point, and lately “it is the
higher self of the human being, or the reincarnating principle,
that rules over the animal ego, and governs it, whenever the latter
does not drag down the former. Now spirituality is in its ascending
arch, and the animal or physical aspect only makes the normal
progress on the path of evolution difficult when the egotism of
the personality contaminates the inner being, in such a way and
so strongly, that the superior attraction loses all its reign over the
thinking and rational being.”
We see, if we observe well, that those who are the simplest
human beings are the ones who are more open to the mysteries
of the Evolutionary Plan. However, it may be said “that vice and
evil constitute an abnormal and unnatural manifestation in the
present stage of the human evolution—or so it should be. The
fact that humanity has never been more egotistic and vicious than
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