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<strong>CHAPTER</strong> 1 65<br />
<strong>CHAPTER</strong> 1<br />
THE MIGRANTS<br />
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and<br />
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." (Genesis<br />
1:1-2).<br />
In the beginning, the Earth was a comet. After it had gathered enough cosmic debris it became a planet, a new<br />
world. For untold ages this satellite of the Sun was a molten mass of fire. Meteorites from outer space<br />
bombarded the whirling sphere, great clouds arose. Finally, the great blanket of clouds condensed and it<br />
rained incessantly; the "cooling off" process had begun. Life first appeared on Earth when it was still boiling<br />
and seething with chemical turbulence in the air and in the hot seas. Some time during this period a synthesis<br />
occurred, and there was the first movement of life in some unknown spot of the Earth's vast seas. A<br />
microscopic glob of transparent jelly, flagellate. These multiplied and spread through the seas, where<br />
evolution was to start and eventually produce the indigenous life forms of the planet Earth. New types of<br />
half-plant, half-animal creatures began to inhabit the waters of the Earth. Hard parts, protective shells, plates<br />
and skins appeared and the continuous fossil record began.<br />
The Earth planet, now cooled and teeming with mineral, vegetable, and animal life, was ready at last to<br />
receive human life. On another planetary system spiritual life migrated through interstellar space and began to<br />
struggle independently with the problems of Earth planet environment. At that moment the Word was made<br />
Flesh and Man in his present form . . . WAS!<br />
"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto<br />
them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all<br />
which they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet<br />
his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,<br />
when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became<br />
mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the<br />
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the<br />
Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man<br />
whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of<br />
the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them." (Genesis 6:1-7).<br />
So we come to the place where man appears on the planet Earth. The human race in its present pattern has<br />
been upon this planet anywhere between seventeen million and ten million years. For centuries scientists have<br />
pondered the question: "How did life in the human form make its advent upon Earth?" The famous Missing<br />
Link between the Anthropoid Apes and Man will never be found because the link is a spiritual and not an<br />
organic link. A great migration of souls known as the "Sons of God" arrived on Earth when the evolution of<br />
its indigenous life was progressing and incarnated in certain animal forms. This caused the basic difference<br />
between the human and other mammal forms. The primate species went on living and breeding as a true<br />
species, giving us the monkeys, apes, and gorillas of today. But the ape-forms that were borrowed for<br />
incarnation by the spirit-souls arriving from outer space, apparently supplied the original expressions of the<br />
human. These forms continued to breed and develop, and gradually sublimated the ape-forms into the races of<br />
man as society now recognizes them.<br />
The scientist of today can be an atheist or a devout man, for he can fit the evolutionary theory into his own<br />
concepts nicely. He can either believe that God brought certain chemical substances together when the first<br />
single-celled life appeared in our warm seas, or he can believe that the happening was purely accidental.