Thomas Troward and Ernest Holmes made it clear in their writings that there are two fundamental processes going on when the Creative Principle is at work. First there is the process of THE WORD, or a clearly expressed thought, which impresses upon the undifferentiated substance of the Divine to create a FORM. Plato intuited that for every thing in the world there is an invisible idea, or form, which represents the ideal of that object. As a crude example, a machinist can only approximately turn a perfect circle, but we can certainly imagine a perfect circle - so it exists as an idea in Divine Mind.
The process of expressing an clear idea in thought is called INVOLUTION, from the root word 'to invoke', and the Divine Matrix (sort of like in the movie!) responds to begin to bring about that idea, but must follow the laws of Mind and Matter to do so. The process of bringing about the physical result from the original idea is what we call EVOLUTION.
These two, involution and evolution, are not really separate - they are two sides of the same coin. The idea, if clear and unequivocal, produces a response from Spirit which, if it proceeds to its logical conclusion, results in a physical object, appearance, or experience.
Thought creates invisible forms, and a clear thought expressed with genuine conviction provides a form that stirs the substance of the cosmos, beginning a process which commands the physical appearance of that form.Once understood, it can be seen that creation IS evolution, evolution IS creation, but working itself out through the laws of the universe, which include the laws of physics, chemistry, biology and so forth.
Creation is a action in the mental realm, and as such is not subject to science. Science cannot measure an artists vision, or a poet's dream, thought they may be able to measure some of the physical effects, such as brain waves - these are but the evidence of thought, not thought itself, just as a tire track is not a Chevrolet.
Creation, or involution, takes no particular time - it can be a flash of inspiration, or a carefully thought-out plan. Perhaps the Earth could be thought of in six days, whether those are 'days' of the galaxy wheeling about or of the earth around the sun. That does not matter to Science, because Science is designed to study not the causes in the mental realm, but the EFFECTS in the physical realm. Those effects take the form of evolution. Science is designed to tell us how things come to be - but only in the physical sense.
To hold a controversy that places creation and evolution as opposites reveals a consciousness of duality, which is present in the world of effects. Our material world is a world of effects, which are illusory. We know scientifically that visible matter is not solid as it appears and energies are mainly invisible. The world of effects is the world of duality, of dichotomies, or polarities. Whenever one sees such duality, it is a sign that the Truth (capital T) is some higher concept which brings the dual sides into Oncness - because Oneness is the Truth of All That Is.
Whenever a dispute arises which has some sort of duality at its core, the correct understanding is at some higher level of understanding. From a higher perspective, we know that all is One, and that all must be in perfect synchrony. Knowing this, we would not argue in an either-or sort of fashion. We would know that there are two points of view, and that both viewpoints are looking at the same reality, each from their own perspective. We are back to the old Hindu tale of the blind men and the elephant, where each could feel only a part of the beast.
All things are created through the dual processes of Involution and Evolution. There is the invisible process in thought, and the visible process in physical unfoldment. This is why it is said, "As above, so below" in the Hermetic tradition, and in the Biblical tradition, "On Earth as it is in Heaven."
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