"There can be no evolution without prior involution. Thus what
science calls the ‘evolution of species’ has to have been
preceded by a movement of involution. This is true for creatures,
and it is true also for matter. Before the evolution of matter
came the involution of spirit. The advocates of evolution have
only observed things from the outside, from the perspective of
the organization of matter, without taking into account the
invisible forces that had previously worked on it.
Evolution is only half of a process of manifestation. Observing
it in isolation cuts it off from the truth of life. Taken in
isolation, this process has no place in nature. You cannot prove
that evolution is possible without assuming the existence of a
prior impulse, which activated it and continues to sustain it.
And this impulse comes from above. It was spirit that came down
first, and if we see matter evolving, it is because it is being
carried upward by the movement of the spirit raising it back up
to its place of origin."
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
