Evolution of Life. in 



if we study the human Self we shall find these 

 three aspects present also in that human Self; and 

 the first to develop in man, as in the Kosmos, is 

 Chit or knowledge. All the earliest stages of human 

 evolution have to do with the evolution of Intelli- 

 gence ; it is that with which we are now concerned, 

 as we climb this mighty ladder. We are evolving 

 intelligence or intellect, and if we trace its stages 

 from the earliest germs as they appear in the 

 primeval races of the humanity of our globe, and 

 as fostered in those races by the Great Ones who 

 came to us as Teachers from other worlds, we shall 

 find that the dawning intellect in man was but 

 very slightly responsive to anything that came to it 

 from without, and that at first every effort of the 

 intelligence was stimulated by the promptings of 

 the animal nature, by the sting of desire, by the 

 passions which belong to the animal part_oi man. 

 Consider a savage. When is a savage active? 

 Only when some animal desire awakens within him. 

 If he is hungry, yes, then he will begin to think, 

 " where can I find food ? " If he is thirsty, he will 

 ask, "where shall I find liquid?" Any animal 

 prompting that arises within him, his dawning 

 mind applies itself to satisfy ; and the germ of mind 

 is stimulated by the promptings of animal desire. 

 In that stage he knows not right from wrong ; 



