Some predecessors of Darwin believed that the assemblage of species on the genealogical trees was the outcome of the evolution of one species into another. Such a belief is in its depth an absurd hypothesis, because we have never observed the birth of a new species.
Jean Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, opined that evolution had occurred by the adaptation of plants and animals to the environment, transmitting their acquired characteristics to the following generation.
Charles Darwin went even further in his expositions, with his outlandish idea that new types of species were emerging from occasional variations, due to chance, or to errors of heredity, which afterwards were eliminated by the survival of the most adapted one. Mr. Darwin, when conducting a retrospective examination along the path of evolution, said that within the confused past there must have been a simple and common primeval form of life, from which the rest of beings come. The question that this author asked himself is very intriguing: “Where do those original species come from?”
In one of his last letters, which presumably was the last one that he dictated and signed before his death, he emphatically expressed that knowledge at that time was so poor that any serious attempt to explain the origin of life would be a failure.So, Mr. Darwin died without discovering the origin of life. He wrote an absurd theory without basis or foundation.
Louis Pasteur was more comprehensive. Let us remember with clarity the blow he dealt to the absurd idea that life could emerge from inorganic matter. This great sage stated:
“There is a peculiar quality within the chemical substances of animated things, which places them fundamentally apart from inorganic substances.”
Pasteur so roundly repudiated the fanatics of spontaneous generation that, indeed — and even if this seems incredible — only a few henchmen of such an outlandish theory dared to speculate about the origin of life. No need to mention that the rest of them preferred to select the concept that some miraculous spark was necessary to give life unto the first living being. Others, undoubtedly the most wise ones, sheltered themselves in eastern wisdom, which states that life is eternal and only the changeable things are perishable.
The germs of life travel eternally through space from sun to sun, from planet to planet throughout time and distance.Electrical whirlwinds reach the worlds carrying germs of life within their bosom.
The difficulty that the panspermia theory of Arrhenius1 offered was that the micro-organisms or spores of bacteria (which survived ebullition within the Pouchet vessels) would possibly be killed by the solar ultraviolet rays, a little while after having rapidly passed through the protective terrestrial atmosphere. The rays with more lethal effect upon the spores are possibly the ones with the interior wave of a longitude of 3,000 angstroms.
In accordance with posterior calculations performed by Carl Sagan, at the famous University of Berkeley, California, these spores could not have survived, not even during the trajectory from Earth to Mars, or vice versa. Notwithstanding, Sagan affirmed that the ultraviolet rays are very weak in those distances from the Sun to planets like Uranus and Neptune, and that concerning these mentioned planets, the theory of Panspermia is not discarded at all. Even though, according to Sagan, it is not applicable to the origin of life on the Earth.
We, the Gnostics, go further. We are not speaking of spores. We affirm that the elemental germs of life are taken and brought by electric whirlwinds.
If the elemental germs of universal life were not be carefully protected during their interplanetary voyages, they would be annihilated by the solar ultraviolet rays. Therefore, the vital germs of existence travel properly protected by cosmic energy within the bosom of electrical whirlwinds.
These elemental germs evolve and are developed wherever they find vital, specific conditions.
Devolving ages come after any evolving cycle. Thus, the species return towards their primeval, germinal state.
The evolution and devolution of each species in particular demands precise vital conditions.
All of the living species which had evolved and devolved on the planet Earth have repeated identical processes on other planets.
The theory of Panspermia of Arrhenius has been perfected by the Gnostics, and it is obvious that its basis is exact.
