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tence of Allah, explained the universe’s creation with coincidences and
claimed that man supposedly evolved physically as well as spiritually

and still continued to do so. Superstitious karma and reincarnation, the
basis of Far Eastern religious beliefs, was claimed to be an expression
of this evolutionary process. They believed that man would attain deep
insight and a divine status, or even supposed godhood, (Surely Allah
is beyond this) as a result of perfection achieved by continued succes-
sive new lives. (For more details on the heretic belief of karma and rein-

carnation see: Chapter: Erroneous beliefs of death and afterlife in Hinduism).
In reality it was a perverse and fraudulent philosophy that had no ra-
tional basis, and this nonsensical belief formed the basis of the
Theosophical movement and the other pagan beliefs that succeeded it.
Alan Morrison is a Christian researcher and ex- New Age follower of
many years who converted later to Christianity. He has written many
books and articles on the heretical practices and beliefs of the New Age
movement. Morrison explains the deceptive idea of “spiritual evolu-
tion” coined by Blavatsky as follows in his article entitled “From old

Gnosticism to New Age, A Historical Analysis of the Mystery of
Iniquity from the 6th Century to the Present Day”:
“One of the Theosophical Society’s contributions to New Gnosticism is the
term ‘spiritual evolution’ used in the comprehensive works of Blavatsky. Just
as man has evolved from lesser forms of life he continues to evolve towards a
powerful, cosmic being. Each individual will continue to be subject to rein-
carnation thousands of times until he reaches a state of perfection. Blavatsky

was not alone when defending spiritual evolution. As one author put it, this
belief was expressed in various ways after Madame Blavatsky by Teilhard de
Chardin, then Bergson and Nietzsche, but towards the end of the 19th cen-
tury, no one else besides Blavatsky exercised such influence over people. New
religious movements moved in to fill the void left by Christianity’s decline.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)