The Evolution of Humanity

There is an enormous difference between a person who still has the living direct sense of and feeling for Christ and a person completely alienated from the original Christian feeling. Not only are the feelings and thoughts of such a person different from those of a Christian mind, but this difference can be observed even in the physical body. There are such subtle differences which intervene in the finest structures of the body that physiology and biology know nothing about them. We cannot assign the same path to all human beings in order to ascend through higher development into the higher worlds. But we should not imagine that all human beings stand alike in our fifth cultural stream. Many characteristics of the earlier cultural streams have been preserved. They have developed consecut