The Overcontrol of Evolution

65:0.1Ba­sic evo­lu­tion­ary ma­te­rial life—pre­mind life—is the for­mu­la­tion of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and the life-im­par­ta­tion min­istry of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its in con­junc­tion with the ac­tive min­is­tra­tion of the or­dained Life Car­ri­ers. As a re­sult of the co-or­di­nate func­tion of this three­fold cre­ativ­ity there de­vel­ops or­gan­is­mal phys­i­cal ca­pac­ity for mind—ma­te­rial mech­a­nisms for in­tel­li­gent re­ac­tion to ex­ter­nal en­vi­ron­men­tal stim­uli and, later on, to in­ter­nal stim­uli, in­flu­ences tak­ing ori­gin in the or­gan­is­mal mind it­self.

65:0.2There are, then, three dis­tinct lev­els of life pro­duc­tion and evo­lu­tion:

65:0.31. The phys­i­cal-en­ergy do­main—mind-ca­pac­ity pro­duc­tion.

65:0.42. The mind min­istry of the ad­ju­tant spir­its—im­ping­ing upon spirit ca­pac­ity.

65:0.53. The spirit en­dow­ment of mor­tal mind—cul­mi­nat­ing in Thought Ad­juster be­stowal.

65:0.6The me­chan­i­cal-non­teach­able lev­els of or­gan­is­mal en­vi­ron­men­tal re­sponse are the do­mains of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers. The ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its ac­ti­vate and reg­u­late the adap­ta­tive or non­me­chan­i­cal-teach­able types of mind—those re­sponse mech­a­nisms of or­gan­isms ca­pa­ble of learn­ing from ex­pe­ri­ence. And as the spirit ad­ju­tants thus ma­nip­u­late mind po­ten­tials, so do the Life Car­ri­ers ex­er­cise con­sid­er­able dis­cre­tionary con­trol over the en­vi­ron­men­tal as­pects of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­cesses right up to the time of the ap­pear­ance of hu­man will—the abil­ity to know God and the power of choos­ing to wor­ship him.

65:0.7It is the in­te­grated func­tion­ing of the Life Car­ri­ers, the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, and the spirit ad­ju­tants that con­di­tions the course of or­ganic evo­lu­tion on the in­hab­ited worlds. And this is why evo­lu­tion—on Uran­tia or else­where—is al­ways pur­pose­ful and never ac­ci­den­tal.