[Redbook6:216][19890820:2007d]{The
Spirit in Animals, Men and Angels [continued
(4)]}[20th
August 1989]
.2328
The
implication of this* is that the Spirit of God is present in all of
Creation; and that just as the outward manifestation(?) is the fact
of entropy (increasing disorder) in natural processes involving
material things, so the inward manifestation is the apparently
purposive, seemingly information-based integrative tendency which is
found most strikingly (but not exclusively) in natural processes
which we recognise as living, that is, the development of life-forms;
and that the process of evolution,** which seems to be a major
example of this inner manifestation, may be perceived in one sense as
the increase in self-awareness of the organism, to the extent that,
in Man, the organism becomes at least able
to perceive the Spirit within himself*** [sic]
(whether any Individual Man does so, of course, being a matter of
free will).
*[See
last 3 previous entries, [Redbook6:215-218][19890820:2007b]{The
Spirit in Animals, Men and Angels}[20th August 1989]ff]
**Although
‘integrative’ is not at once obviously a description of
evolution, it is certainly not disintegrative like entropy; and
against entropy’s descent, it clearly is an ascent.
***[cf
[Redbook4:88-89][19871003:1650e]{Men
and Animals}[3rd
October 1987]]
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