A theory of spiritual evolution is not identical with a scientific theory of form-evolution and physical life evolution; it must stand on its own inherent justification: it may accept the scientific account of physical evolution as a support or an element, but the support is outward and visible machinery and process, with the details of Nature’s execution, with the physical development of things in Matter and the law of development of Life and Mind in Matter; its account of the process may have to be considerably changed or may be dropped altogether in the light of new discovery, but that will not affect the self-evident fact of spiritual evolution, an evolution of Consciousness, a progression of the soul’s manifestation in material existence.
[The Life Divine, p-835]
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