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Excerpt from the book, Genesis, by Alfred J. Parker
A student of spiritual philosophy naturally seeks to know what constitutes life, how it comes into being, and its component parts both universally and individually. He realizes that everything he beholds is really an outward symbol of inner or subjective forces, but desires to know how the inner or spiritual forces of life make the transformation from invisibility (fourth dimensional forces) into form or symbols to comprise life (third dimension). This is one of the great mysteries of the ages, and the very one that our Christian doctrine endeavours to illustrate through the first three chapters of Genesis. It is the story of involution and evolution.
The next step to a thinker is the divine plan or blueprint of evolution, to know its objective and how that objective can be guaranteed through human co-operation, and to know man's position and relation to the plan, his limitations, and potentialities. This brings the principle of evolution down to the human basis. Man must know himself, the vital and component parts that give him being, the knowledge of the positive and negative forces of his being and all their ramifications. Man must understand his body and its care (food, breathing, and natural habits), the emotions or vital power and their development or transmutation into mental power, and the evolution of mind to Spiritual Consciousness.
The next step is the creation and balance of the mind and its development through balance, ideals, and education, the laws governing its power of dominion over all the body and emotions, its perspective, initiative, will, and intellectual unfoldment, its evolution through emotion, desires, inspiration, analytical development, and lastly, into spiritual and universal concept and wisdom.
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