Allan Kardec-THE Spirit's Book_ The Principles of Spiritist Doctrine (1989)

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glory of God? So far from doing this, the view of creation thus presented to us is more consonant than
any other with our sense of the vastness of His power exerting its sway over all the worlds of infinity
through the action of universal laws. This theory, it is true, does not solve the problem of the origin of the
vital elements, but nature has mysteries which it is as yet impossible for us to explain.
46. Do any living beings come into existence spontaneously at the present day?
"Yes; but the primal germs of these already existed in a latent state. You are constantly
witnesses of this phenomenon. Do not the tissues of the human body and of animals contain
the germs of a multitude of parasites, that only await for their development the occurrence of
the putrid fermentation necessary to their life? Each of you contains a slumbering world of
microscopic beings in process of creation."
47. Was the human species among the organic elements contained in the terrestrial globe?
"Yes; and it made its appearance at the time appointed by the Creator. Hence the statement
that man was 'formed out of the dust of the ground.'"
48. Can we ascertain the epoch of tile appearance of man and of the other living beings on
the earth?
"No; all your calculations are chimerical."
49. If the germs of the human race were among the organic elements of the globe, why are
human beings not produced spontaneously at the present day, as they were at the time of its
origin?
"The first beginning of things is hidden from us nevertheless, it may be asserted that the
earliest progenitors of the human race, when once brought into existence, absorbed in
themselves the elements necessary to their formation in order to transmit those elements
according to the laws of reproduction. The same may be said in regard to all the different
species of living beings."
Peopling of the Earth - Adam
50. Did the human race begin with one man only?
"No; he whom you call Adam was neither the first nor the only man who peopled the earth."
51. Is it possible to know at what period Adam lived?
"About the period which you assign to him; that is to say, about 4000 years before Christ."