Evolutionary Stages
STUART: I
like this idea of yours that evolution proceeds in a kind of zigzagging fashion
with oscillations between the romantic and the classic, as emphasizing a
distinction between the Becoming and the Become. It begins, you say, with a romantic Becoming
in the First Cause?
KEVIN:
Which can be equated with the central star of the Galaxy, as of any galaxy.
STUART: And
then proceeds to a kind of classical Become in the planets?
KEVIN: No,
more precisely in the smaller stars, such as the sun, from some of which there
eventually emerged the planets as a kind of romantic Becoming.
STUART: Ah,
the minor stars! Yes, of course! They precede the planets, which go through
various changes until ...
KEVIN:
Nature emerges on earth as the first planetary classical Become, with
particular reference to the trees - the oldest and most noble specimens of
nature.
STUART:
There then follows, however, a romantic Becoming in the animals...?
KEVIN:
Including insects, reptiles, fish, birds, mammals, et cetera, which are all
life forms, irrespective of their size or habitat, capable of movement and
conscious decision, and therefore stand between the plants and man in the
evolution of life. Of all the animals,
we must single out apes, or a certain species of ape, the way I singled out
trees, as integral to a line of evolutionary ascent leading, in due course, to
man.
STUART: So
from the classical Become of a tree to the romantic Becoming of an ape swinging
in its branches, we move on, at length, to the classical Become of a man
descended from that ape?
KEVIN: Yes,
in a manner of speaking! The man you are
alluding to arose at a rather later phase of evolution than the caveman of
prehistoric times, being of pagan civilization and, in particular, a certain
phase of it ... such as we nowadays tend to equate with Graeco-Roman
classicism. This man signifies a
classical Become on a predominantly sensual level.
STUART:
Whereas the tree presumably signifies such a Become on an almost exclusively
sensual or, at any rate, sensuous level.
KEVIN: Yes,
since somewhat closer to an absolute than is man. With the next, or dualistic, phase of
evolution, however, we enter the realm of a romantic Becoming, particularly
with regard to Catholic Christianity, and from there, with the inception of
Transcendentalism in a post-dualistic civilization, we shall progress to the
highest human Become, a classical Become of predominantly spiritual
constitution, and therefore quite the reverse of the pagan Become.
STUART: I
have now counted from 1-8, beginning with the First Cause and ending with
transcendental man.
KEVIN: Then
let us continue on up the ladder of evolution to the ninth rung, so to speak,
which will be the romantic Becoming of the Supermen in the first phase of the
post-Human Millennium. The Supermen will
require artificially-induced upward self-transcending visionary experience and
signify a stage on the road, as it were, to the next classical Become - the
highest earthly Become ... of the Superbeings who, as
new-brain collectivizations, will stand at the
opposite evolutionary remove from trees (rather than to apes on trees) and thus
signify classicism on a near-absolute spiritual level.
STUART:
Which level will in turn be superseded, I take it, by a fresh romantic Becoming in...?
KEVIN: The
convergence and expansion of Spiritual Globes in the heavenly Beyond, which
would constitute the ultimate romantic Becoming prior to the ultimate classical
Become of ... attainment by such separate transcendences to unity in the Omega
Absolute at the climax of spiritual evolution.
And that, believe it or not, would be stage twelve - the complete
antithesis to the lowest romantic Becoming ... of the First Cause, at stage
one.
STUART: How
amazing! One could argue that evolution comes full-circle with its return to an absolute.
KEVIN: Except for the fact that the Omega Absolute will be as
different from the alpha absolutism of stars, both major and minor, as it is
possible to conceive.
What began under the negative principle of proton-proton reactions
should culminate under the converse principle of electron-electron attractions
- the ultimate positivity!
STUART:
Thus evolution proceeds from the subatomic to the supra-atomic via the atomic.
KEVIN:
Precisely! Atoms are at the base of
matter, but before matter arises one has the alpha absolutism of the gaseous
stars, and after electrons have escaped from matter one will have the omega
absolutism of transcendent spirit. The
most absolute soul, whether in its romantic or classic phase, is beneath
electron emergence. Transcendent spirit,
whether in its romantic or classic phase, will be above proton constraint. The former is absolutely evil, the latter
absolutely good.
STUART: So
when do atoms first emerge in evolution?
KEVIN: With the formation of matter in the romantic Becoming of the
planets, particularly on planets, like the earth, which were rich in mineral
formations. As matter ascends it becomes
less dense; but the lower manifestation of matter in rock/crystal formations is
especially dense, thereby testifying to a considerable preponderance of protons
and/or neutrons over electrons in an atomic cohesion which defies the emergence
of consciousness. However, consciousness
as we understand it doesn't arise with the plants either, but only with the animals,
and then on a comparatively rudimentary level.
STUART:
This suggests that the ratio of protons and/or neutrons to electrons in the
overall constitution of the animal brain is still heavily biased on the side of
the former, and consequently impedes the development of consciousness.
KEVIN:
Particularly with regard to spiritual consciousness, which requires for its
expansion a preponderance of electrons over protons and/or neutrons such as one
only finds in man, and then after millennia of evolutionary struggle. Animal consciousness is predominantly sensual
because of the preponderance of protons and neutrons in the atomic constitution
of its brain. But the atomic structure
is such that a degree of spiritual consciousness becomes possible, because the
electrons are more numerous than in the matter of, say, a tree, and not so
densely smothered by protons and neutrons.
STUART: So
even a tree, to the extent that it is atomic rather than subatomic, must
possess mind in some degree?
KEVIN: It
possesses a subconscious, or sensual, mind derived from a preponderating proton
constitution. But although the rudiments
of a conscious mind are present in the electron ingredient, so to speak, of the
tree's atomic structure, there is no consciousness as such, because the
electrons are too greatly outnumbered and tightly smothered by both the protons
and neutrons to emerge as a distinct consciousness. A tree can feel, but it can't think!
STUART:
Thus feeling is the quality of proton-dominated matter.
KEVIN: Yes,
feeling corresponds to the wavicle aspect of matter,
proton and/or neutron and electron cohesions to its particle aspect. The wavicle aspect
is the soul of matter, the particle aspect its body, whether as regards protons
and neutrons or electrons.
STUART: You
mean, an electron, no less than a proton, is a tiny material entity?
KEVIN:
Considered literally, yes! But, unlike a
proton, an electron will have consciousness as its quality, so that the
electron wavicle will be spiritual rather than
sensual or intellectual, and therefore akin to the spirit of matter. Thus a distinction arises, with the wavicle aspect, between the soul and the spirit of matter,
which is paralleled, in the particle aspect, by a distinction between protons
and electrons. Obviously, the ratio of soul to spirit, or vice versa, will vary
according to the kind of matter under consideration.
STUART: You
mean, a piece of wood will possess a different wavicle integrity from the neo-cortex of a highly
intelligent man.
KEVIN:
Absolutely! The wood will be proton
biased and therefore its wavicle quality will be
soul, whereas the neo-cortex will be electron biased and possess, in its wavicle aspect, a spiritual quality.
STUART:
Then surely there must be a similar distinction between the two main physiological
components of the human cortex, viz. the old brain and the new brain, which
would suggest a different atomic structuring at the base of each - the one
being of a proton bias and the other, by contrast, of an electron bias?
KEVIN: Oh,
indeed! And that is precisely why the wavicle aspect of each brain is so different, the
subconscious being soul and the superconscious ...
spirit, the former betokening feelings and the latter ... awareness, with
intelligence coming in-between. Were
each brain identically structured in the ratio of protons to electrons, then
their wavicle aspects would be identical, as either
soul or spirit. But the neo-cortex, or
new brain, is in the process of evolving in the direction of greater electron
freedom, its atomic integrity being rearranged, through spiritual striving, in
such a way as to create an imbalance favouring the electron component, an
imbalance which, taken to its logical extreme, should result in the
disintegration of any remaining atomic structure and the attainment of
electrons to transcendence, in complete freedom from proton and/or neutron
constraint.
STUART: An eventuality which could only happen, presumably, in the
latter phase of the post-Human Millennium, when life, in the guise of Superbeings, was directly programmed for the heavenly
Beyond.
KEVIN: Yes,
for by then the old brain would have been surgically removed by the millennial
technicians and only the new brain would remain, its wavicle
aspect being spirit, and the raison d'être of each Superbeing, or new-brain collectivization, being the
expansion of that spirit towards transcendence in an endeavour to bring
evolution to a supra-atomic plane of ... electron-electron attractions in the
heavenly Beyond. Each Superbeing would be expanding spirit through a hypermeditation made possible by the interaction of the
various new brains in any given collectivization and the complete absence of
subconscious constraint, thereby changing the new brain's atomic structure in
the direction of greater degrees of spiritual freedom ... until, with
transcendence, the ultimate degree of spiritual freedom was attained to, a
degree entailing, in all probability, the collapse of the physiological base -
the new brains disintegrating into flame as the electrons broke free of the remaining
proton and neutron constraints, and thus shattered what atomic integrity there
had been.
STUART: Why
do you suggest the possibility of flame?
KEVIN:
Because once electrons had departed for the heavenly Beyond,
the disintegration of what had formerly been an atomic integrity would result
in protons reacting against one another in a subatomic context akin to that of
the sun, and the sun, as we both know, is a great ball of raging flame. Thus would the world gradually destroy itself
in the wake of departed spirit - flame spreading from each collapsed new-brain
collectivization to whatever lay in its path until, eventually, everything was
consumed.
STUART: You
said electrons would break free, but would they actually soar heavenwards or
would particle husks be left behind, as their wavicle
aspect attained to transcendence?
KEVIN: Yes,
I said electrons and I meant electrons!
I can't imagine spirit existing without its particle base in the
electron. Does the sun's flame exist
without its particle base in the proton?
No, of course not! And neither
need we expect wavicles to exist without electrons on
which to dance. They have to emerge from
somewhere, after all.
STUART: But
would that make for transcendence?
KEVIN: Oh
yes, because these wavicles would not be attached to
matter, as in an atomic integrity, but to pure electrons, which would be as far
above matter as pure protons, in the subatomic absolutism of the stars, are
beneath it. Maybe even
more so, insofar as electrons are the pro-spiritual elements in an atomic
structure, whereas protons remain aligned with the emotional realm, and
neutrons with the intellectual one.
But when pure spirit arises from the Superbeings,
it will create a nuclear reaction releasing proton energy in every direction,
and this in turn will give rise, I am quite convinced, to a holocaust, albeit
one destined, in due course, to burn itself into nothingness as the proton
fires subside. Thus will the protons
destroy themselves as the electrons wing their way heavenwards, as it were, in
various-sized spiritual globes.
STUART: The
smallest size presumably arising from any given Superbeing,
and the largest ...?
KEVIN:
Eventually being the Omega Absolute itself.
Though while Spiritual Globes were converging towards one another and
expanding into larger wholes in a kind of romantic Becoming, they would pass
through evolutionary stages corresponding to the successive star changes ...
from the galactic central star to the individual planets via the minor stars of
each galaxy. However, these supra-atomic
stages would be the converse of the subatomic ones, so that, beginning in
Spiritual Globes as antitheses to the 'material' globes of the planets,
supra-atomic evolution would progress from a 'planetary' to a 'galactic' level,
and on, eventually, to a 'universal' level, as the individual Spiritual Globes
became larger and fewer in number, following successive convergences and
expansions.
STUART:
Your genius overwhelms me and obliges me to request a clarification, on the
basis of this more comprehensive perspective, of the respective evolutionary
stages ... from the first to the last.
KEVIN: Very
well! Let us begin with whatever number
of governing stars there are in the Universe, one to each galaxy, which
correspond to X number of first causes.
Let us then proceed to an XX number of minor stars, millions to each
galaxy, and consider them as stage two.
Then let us proceed to an XXX number of planets, possibly billions to
each galaxy, which in turn give rise, on certain planets, to an XXXX number of
plants, including trees, at stage four.
Next let us proceed to an XXXXX number of animals on these
life-sustaining planets, and bring ourselves to stage six with the advent of
XXXXXX numbers of pagan men. The ensuing
Christian, or equivalent anthropomorphic, stage is really a combination of two
stages, since dualistic in constitution, and leads, via XXXXXXX numbers of
atomic men, to stage seven with XXXXXX numbers of transcendental men. Then follows stage eight, with XXXXX numbers
of Supermen, which are human brains artificially supported and sustained in
collectivized contexts. After this first
and lower phase of the post-Human Millennium, however, we proceed to its second
and higher phase in new-brain intensified collectivizations
... with XXXX numbers of Superbeings at stage
nine. This in turn leads to
transcendence with XXX numbers of Spiritual Globes, these small transcendences
continuously merging into one another until, at stage eleven, they become more
the size of stars than planets and may justifiably be regarded in terms of XX
numbers of Galactic Globes. It now only
remains for these larger transcendences to converge towards one another, from
whatever part of the Universe, into one ultimate globe ... for evolution to be
complete in the Omega Absolute at stage twelve, the final X.
STUART:
Thus what began in the many First Causes will culminate in the one Last Effect?
KEVIN:
Precisely! Evolution
proceeding from the subatomic to the supra-atomic via intermediate degrees of
atomic compromise.
STUART: And
in a kind of zigzagging fashion of romantic/classic alternations?
KEVIN: Yes,
though that particularly applies to the intermediate, or earthly, stages of
evolution, where a Becoming/Become alternation derives from and appertains to the
variously-constituted atomic integrities which prevail there. With the
subatomic stages, however, evolution broadly reflects the proton absolutism of
stars and planets in terms of a continuous romantic Becoming, whereas with the
supra-atomic stages of evolution there will really be a continuous classical
Become, in accordance with the electron absolutism of spiritual globes en route,
as it were, to the Omega Absolute.
Viewed from the human standpoint, this convergence and expansion of
Spiritual Globes will suggest a romantic Becoming. But Absolute Mind, the essence of
transcendent spirit, would be unaware of any such Becoming
because entirely wrapped-up, so to speak, in self-absorption ... as sole
witness to its divine Being. Conversely,
although the stars may suggest to us, as we view them from millions of miles
distance, a classical Become, they are continuously engulfed by the negative
Becoming of their proton-proton reactions, and are thus consumed in apparent
activity. Transcendent spirit, by contrast,
would be completely immersed in essential passivity, the quality of
electron-electron attractions. There
could be no greater distinction than that!
STUART: So
now I understand, for the first time, how evolution proceeds and where it is
tending. Man has now reached the point
where he can split the atom of crude matter, severing electrons from their
proton and/or neutron constraints. But
he has a long way to go before he can split the atomic structure of the new
brain apart!
KEVIN:
That's true. Though there is no reason
for us to be pessimistic as to its eventual achievement. The Superbeings of
the higher phase of the post-Human Millennium will most certainly progress
towards transcendence, and when they attain to it ... the result will be
salvation for the liberated electrons but damnation for the abandoned protons,
which will then react against one another in diabolic fashion. Just as well that, by then, all human
technicians would have departed the scene, to leave the prospect of witnessing
the ultimate nuclear holocaust to their artificial colleagues - the robots and
computers, whose material constitutions will be impervious to conscious pain!