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"All beings, whether large or small, were created perfect and complete from the first, but their perfections appear in them by degrees... For example, in the seed all the vegetable perfections exist from the beginning, but not visibly; afterwards little by little they appear... In the same way, the embryo possesses from the first all perfections such as the spirit, the mind, the sight, the smell, the taste... but they are not visible, and become so only by degrees." (Bwf 312- 3) (43:8) "In the physical creation, evolution is from one degree of perfection to another... (But) the soul does not evolve from degree to degree as a law-- it only evolves nearer to God, by the Mercy and Bounty of God." (Pt 66)
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