In the distant past, around 300 million years ago, the determinants of life consisted of identical chromosomes carried within an ancestral mammal-like creature. Then some energy infusion caused the identical chromosomes to mutate and diverge as the X and Y chromosomes. These were to set the destiny for life-form variations. In other words, the sex method of creature reproduction evolved. In biblical myth this is Eve being carved out of the side of Adam. There is nothing sacred initiated with this mutation of the long, stringy masses of genes that convey heredity information.
In the conception of physical life there is, in a sense, a reenactment in miniature of the continuous action of Creation. In human development, when the male spermatozoon comes into contact with the female pro-nucleus, they fuse and form a new nucleus that contains both male and female elements. This nucleus is known as the blastosphere. The first result of fertilization is the division of the ovum. These two parts then continue dividing and initiate protoplasm development—the energy-substance from which potential life may collect as form. A fascinating aspect of this division is that two separate masses of protoplasm are established, each containing a nucleus and with the same energy composition but slightly unequal in size. The segmentation of each mass of protoplasm then develops differently!
The slightly larger cellular mass is more pallid than the other, and after the two cells have subdivided three or four times the rate of cleavage in the cells of the paler mass becomes more rapid than the cells of the other protoplasm mass. These paler cells have a tendency to spread over and enclose the cells of the other protoplasm mass, and by the ninth or tenth division an external layer of pale cells enclose the mass of slightly smaller, less numerous, more opaque cells.
This is an extremely simplified version of earliest life-form inception, but it shows that the process of fetal development follows the same principles that account for development of everything in Creation. This energy is the likeness spoken of in Genesis 1:26, “…Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…”
That “likeness” is conveyed through 92 different chemical elements and it is through chemical evolution that the multitude of compounds necessary for biological life are generated. The ineffectual religious interpretation of this is to characterize the defining action that takes place through an amoral chemical process as the “will of God.” (Amoral does not mean immoral: it is something more akin to indifferent.)
The “soul” and its link to matter-life has been a constant and nagging problem for theologians for over a millennium. The Roman Catholic Church, for example, reached a theological conclusion that the soul of a human “…is created and united by God to the infant body yet unborn, which union is called passive conception.” This theological circumvention of elucidation brought the Church “fathers” considerable anguish and perplexity since its medieval time of institution, for if God unites the soul “to an infant body yet unborn,” then how are they to account for all the infants that the church considers to be “illegitimate”?
The catch-22 to this self-mortifying quandary is that if, as the church insists, God is morally loath to fornication then how is it that he indulges himself in “passive conception” of infants shunned by the church? This sticky theological puzzle has never been blessed with a sane answer because the religiously disoriented refuse to accept amoral biological facts. Instead the religious business machines choose to portray this chemical action as the result of some moral being who “passively conceives” in a manner that can only be politely termed as unrestrained.
And because this theologically inspired superstition does not provide any information of just when or at what stage God supposedly unites the soul (self-awareness) to the infant body yet unborn, the church is obliged to condemn abortion of non-conscious energy-substance at any stage of its evolutionary transformation in a chemical base. So unrealistic is this view of the biological process of life that even preventing conception is condemned! Of course all this “revealed wisdom” was postulated in the Dark Ages by male-only think-tank members known as the clergy.
The more ancient nature-based faiths were more scientifically astute and positively pro-life than have been the hierarchical, militaristic, and tyrannical religions of the western world through the last two/three millennia. The degraded and maligned Pagan wisdom understood properly that the microcosm reflects the macrocosm, and all creation principles apply at every level—even in the situations in which individual life forms begin to manifest. As in the manifestation of other matter-forms throughout the universe, until a definable prototypal form is energized it is simply substance which holds only the potential for matter development. Human gestation was recognized to mimic these creation principles, so if they pondered over the when or at what stage self-awareness begins to evolve they would be instructed that it is not until the fourth month that a very imprecise awareness as self is initiated. It is at this stage of energy involvement, as an example, that sexual polarity is tentatively determined. Once the developing energy-mass begins to take on unquestionable sexual identity, the will of life can be said to have been taken up. Even so, the brain, where self-awareness guides the consciousness of life, is not even fully assembled until months after the infant body takes it first breath of life. Indeed, the brain then grows to half its adult size by the age of six months, and this accelerated brain growth happens only once in life.
See also earlier postings, God Forgot to Say, March 28,2009; The Code of Life, April 1, 2009: RNA/DNA’s Covenant with Life, April 18; What’s in a Name?, April 26. The bulk of the above information is taken from The Celestial Scriptures, page 396, regarding lessons of life taught using constellation figures as a subject’s focus.
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