Man of today, yesterday was animal, vegetable, mineral (IF14)

Philosophical teaching 14
Evolution evolution of form, evolution of matter, evolution of self-awareness: what do these three statements mean?
With evolution of the form, we mean the passage from the simplest form of life, therefore the mineral form, to the human one and then to the superhuman. So the evolution of the form means that the individual who incarnates himself for the first time in a mineral, then tends to gradually build his bodies on the other planes of existence passing from a very simple life form, as can be that of the crystal, to a more complex form of life such as the vegetable one, from this then to the animal one up to the threshold of consciousness and consequently to incarnate as a man.

As far as the 'evolution of matter, the speech is more or less similar even if it refers to the other planes of existence, that is, with the evolution of matter we mean the structuring of the other bodies located on the other planes of existence of individuality.
Suppose that two individuals incarnate at the same time, in a mineral form: one incarnates in Africa, where it is very hot, the other in Iceland where it is very cold. These two individuals despite being "born" at the same time, despite having the same types of experiences (since, as you can well imagine, the mineral form has a limited number of experiences) we begin to evolve and build an embryo of an astral body that already has small differences between the first individual and the second.
After they have reached the maximum evolution in the mineral kingdom, they will pass into the vegetable kingdom and thus will have new stimuli that will be useful for the evolution of their bodies. It is clear that the stimuli coming from the outside, given mainly by the climatic conditions, will be totally different for those two hypothetical individuals embodied in Africa and Iceland, so that the formation of the other bodies will in turn be slightly different in its structure.
This disguised differentiation will become greater and greater as those individuals incarnate in the higher realms.
And here is that when they will incarnate as men, that is, when they have finished their cycle of mineral, vegetable and animal incarnations, they will appear slightly different, because their astral body and their mental body will be structured on the base of different experiences, even if very similar to each other.
It will therefore be these first differences that will then lead these individualities, when they are men, to have different behaviors in the face of similar situations, and this then, after all, is nothing more than a shattering of the Absolute Reality, which in this way embodies different behaviors to finally reach total union. Vito

We agree with the teaching that speaks of the evolution of the individual through various forms and not only through the human form.
We assert, in fact, that what today is a man, before being a man was an animal, before being an animal it was a vegetable and even before being a vegetable it was a mineral. Here, this backwards is the evolutionary path of each of you.
If we could follow your evolutionary line back in time we would arrive at a point where your individuality, still expressed in a very rudimentary way, was neither in a man, nor in an animal, nor in a plant but in a mineral. , in something that you are usually accustomed to considering completely inert and lifeless. However we also affirm that every being, every creature, every plant, every thing is not constituted only by physical matter but also by matter of other planes of existence.
So I could say that your Io mineral from a very long time ago was not simply made up of physical matter but already had in sé and around him a certain part of astral matter, of mental matter and on and on and on, only that the difference between your mineral ego at that time (if you can call it that, and look at that this is only a word to express not a reality, but to make a concept understood) and your ego now is such for a peculiar diversity that does not concern so much the type of physical matter, but precisely a characteristic that diversifies them on the various planes of existence.
What is this feature? It is simply the way in which the matter that makes up the other bodies of the individual - astral, mental and akasic - that we are examining is organized, it is structured, it is functional.
I mean, with this panegyric of mine, to make you understand that a mineral, even though it possesses for example an astral body, has the matter of this shapeless and disorganized astral body, still in the process of forming and still not very structured, while instead the matter of the astral body of a human being already has a fairly uniform and complex structure that allows it to function adequately.
What does this entail?
It implies that the mineral, not having the vehicle structured in an adequate way to be able to perceive the sensations, to be able to express the sensations, has a life that is apparently inert while the human being who has the vehicles much more formed and much more suitable to express and transmit sensations and emotions, he has the possibility that you recognize to transmit also through gestures, through the matter of his physical body, these emotions, these sensations.

Let's start with the mineral. The mineral has a certain shape within the physical plane, however it has a corresponding shape that comes gradually, through the other planes of existence until it joins with the Whole (because you know that in reality you are all already united with the Whole. , even if you don't realize it).
However, there is one thing to consider, namely the fact that, as I said, this matter of the other planes of existence is not yet organized enough to be able to make feel, make the mineral aware of what happens in the other planes of existence. His perception, his awareness is therefore almost totally limited to the physical plane, even if he begins, under the impulses of the environment, to react to stimuli and to create his own certain inner awareness of what happens on an emotional level, that is, he begins to organize very slowly his astral matter, which was previously totally disorganized.
So here is to summarize: the awareness of the mineral is all in the physical plane and begins to be constituted also on the astral plane.

Let's now pass to the vegetable form.
The vegetable, in turn, has a form in the physical plane, but its sensitivity is much greater than that of the mineral precisely because through the stimuli experienced in the mineral form, little by little, its astral matter has gone organizing and his awareness, this time, is much more advanced within the astral plane even if it remains, however, always within the astral plane. You would be amazed if you were able to perceive, to understand, in reality, how much each vegetable has a marked and strong sensitivity, not very different, in reality, from that of man. The biggest difference lies in the fact that it is very difficult for the plant to be able to express it in a way that is understandable to the human being.

Here we are now in the animal form.
In individuality, after having passed through the mineral and vegetable forms, clearly the astral matter has been organizing itself and awareness is no longer only of a physical type, but is now totally of an astral type, therefore emotional, and is also beginning to form. on the mental plane ..
Therefore, in the animal, a little at a time, and thanks to the stimuli it receives, awareness is also forming on a mental level. The individual's ego changes from incarnation to incarnation.
Of course, this is true, but this should not lead us to suppose that we start all over again with each incarnation: in reality the lived experience (which would be at the limit of awareness reached during the incarnations), is transcribed within the plan Akasico and with each new incarnation the individual restarts from this awareness, which, therefore, grows.
Simultaneously with the degree of awareness acquired, there is the constitution of bodies on the other planes of existence.

The mineral has a completely structured body only at the level of the physical plane, while the matter of the astral plane begins to organize itself;
this organization continues also for what concerns the plants which meanwhile also begin to organize the matter of the mental plane;
in the animal kingdom the astral body is now structured and the matter of the mental plane is being organized which will then give rise to the mental body.
In turn the man - having the three lower bodies now well organized - he will begin to give an organic form to the matter of the Akasic body as well.

And finally, we come to talk about that "beast" that it usually is man! The speech is completely analogous to those I have done so far.
In fact, if before, at the animal incarnation, the awareness of the individual had reached the mental plane, in the course of human life this mental awareness becomes gradually better and better until, in the end, it trespasses into the Akasic plane, where it gradually becomes more and more structured. . Scifo

At its first appearance in the physical world, therefore, individuality is immersed in matter in the form of mineral; through this experience as a mineral individuality begins to structure the next body.
Now, however, it is good to specify that it is not that every mineral will then be a man, but that individuality that through that mineral has structured his other bodies will be a man. I mean by this that, just to be as clear as possible, when the individuality has "incarnated" in a crystal, through its sensations it will have structured its astral body sufficiently, it will then move away from that mineral to continue its evolution through a material more suited to its evolutionary needs and which, in this specific case, will be in the plant kingdom. At the limit that crystal can be animated by another individuality.
The same phenomenon will then occur in the plant world: through various experiences, fully experiencing the life of sensation (heat, cold, humidity, drought) the "embodied" individuality will structure its astral vehicle very well to the point of being ready for the animal incarnation.
Again it is clear that individuality will enjoy the experiences of several plants at the same time so it is not that every vegetable will be a man in the near future.
It is clear that this evolution is very slow and it is a logical consequence that numerous incarnations must exist in these two realms, and it is equally logical that individuality is forced to experience through different physical vehicles at the same time.
Then passed into the animal world, as an inferior animal, then gradually more and more perfect and close to man, individuality will begin, through these new experiences, to structure also one's mental body, and you can verify this personally by seeing how, for example, two dogs, in the same external conditions and subjected to the same stimuli, have different reactions. This is due to the mental body being structured, and the mental body differs from individual to individual.
The evolutionary process continues in this way until individuality is ready to arrive at human incarnations.
All of this means that if you kill a mosquito (or any other inferior animal) - apart from the fact that that kind of death was foreseen in the Plan - you only partially interrupt the experience of that individuality; the same happens for the plant that is cut down or that dies from the atmospheric agents. When this experiencing is momentarily interrupted, the (totally unconscious) individuality withdraws into the Akasic plane from which it is then re-projected towards new experiences necessary for its evolution. Nothing different then from what is the path of man. Vito