Would the Arès Pilgrims be against evolution, as rumor has it? Quite the contrary. Let’s reword The Sign, which dubs me eldest brother (16/1), so I turn into the eldest tiktaalik. What’s dat?
If the Arès Pilgrims were against evolution, they would not believe in what is essential in The Sign, that is, the fact that man has been able to demean himself, fall (Adam, Sign 2/1-5 and VII/8-16), and that he is likewise able to straigten up (1/1), get over sin, evil and misfortune, resume his spiritual position as the creator’s son and as co-creator, therefore.

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If we, you or I or every one of men, can evolve, it is because evolution is a global ability of everything in the creation. A new proof of evolution has lately appeared: A tiktaalik roseae (picture), a fish with embryonic legs, a 375-million-year fossil the name of which means “large fish in the stream” in Inuit (Eskimo), has been dug out of Ellesmere Island, Canada. The fossil shows that terrestrial life has come out of the sea. Some fish have grown legs, which enabled them to crawl along, and then later walk, on shores. So doing they have developped their brains.
To us anything an animal can do corporally and cerebrally we humans can, particularly as far as morality and spirituality are concerned, because these are in great need of improvement. So we believe in The Sign’s verses: …I (Creator) breathe silently into men’s chests. For the Truth is, the world has to change (28/6-7).
Everything changes, which is essential truth and, what’s more, everything has to change. Everything is able to change, therefore. Besides, The Sign adds, do not finery and joy suit to him who has changed his life (30/11)?
Why, then, the legless fish, the representatives of organizations like Mivilude, Adfi, Ccmm, etc., who claim that they throw light on some “dangers” to “youth and families”, issued a while ago a “record” which spreads a warning that we are “a sect devoted to illegal healing”? —A blunder not really abusive but doubly false, as the Arès Pilgrims do not have a sectarian spirit and do not practice healing, whatever, are now telling that we are “people behind the time, opponents of evolution”?
I happen to guess, however, why they spread such untruths. First, because they heve never read The Sign or the books related to it. Second, because they find it a justifiable parry that falsities are spoken up against whatever disconcerts them. Why? Simply, because we have left the abyss of the “religiously correct”, the “politically correct”, the “atheistically correct”, in short, the “correct thought” abyss, and we have started proceeding upward, to the clear surface waters of the Sea (Sign 20/4+elswhere), to an evolution, which they consider as hazardous.
And yet we do not attack anybody. We have respect for the beliefs and freedom of everybody, our enemies included. Isn’t the peace within us a sign of evolution, as it is, in days when people fly into rage very easily?