EVOLUTION
Evolution is the emergence of the possibilities inherent in Nature from latency into active expression. The word means, literally, unfolding, and it implies the prior process of involution by which the potentialities of spirit are communicated to matter.
Esoteric Science affirms the universality of the evolutionary process:
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life. There is design in the action of the seemingly blindest forces. The whole process of evolution with its endless adaptations is a proof of this. [7]
Here we must return to the Hierarchies of Sections 4 and 5, for the evolutionary process is not a mechanical one but is "guided, controlled and animated by an almost endless series of Hierarchies of sentient Beings" [8].
[7] The Secret Doctrine I, 277 /I, 297 /I, 320
[8] The Secret Doctrine I, 274 /I, 295 /I, 317
