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    Mystery of Man
    Mystery of Man
    Mystery of Man
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    Mystery of Man

    By Hilton Hotema

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    In this book, first published in 1956, Professor Hilton Hotema provides his insights into the ongoing mysteries of Man, his nature, evolution and ultimate place in the cosmos.

    Hilton Hotema is the author of numerous books on dietetics, fasting, fruitarianism, breatharianism, vitality, cellular regeneration, longevity, higher consciousness, spirituality, alternative medicine and ancient wisdom.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateApr 20, 2023
    ISBN9781805232612
    Mystery of Man
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    Hilton Hotema

    Hilton Hotema, born George R. Clements (February 7, 1878 - August 9, 1970), was a 20th-century American alternative health writer, esoteric author and mystic, who also adopted the names Kenyon Klamonti and Dr. Karl Kridler. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Hotema authored numerous books on dietetics, fasting, fruitarianism, breatharianism, vitality, cellular regeneration, longevity, higher consciousness, spirituality, alternative medicine and ancient wisdom. In addition to writing his own books, Hotema provided many introductions to the systematic reprintings of rare, out-of-print, esoteric books published during the 1950s and 1960s. He decided to become a vegan at the age of 9 after reading a book about health at school. He worked as a fruit picker alongside his mother from a very young age, so he was able to snack on an endless supply of fruit throughout the day. He noticed that this diet gave him an abundance of energy and unparalelled vitality. He lived as a breatharian-fruitarian for almost 80 years.

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      Mystery of Man - Hilton Hotema

      Chapter No. 1—Evolution

      At the close of the 18th century, modern science was still in utter darkness as to the mystery of Man.

      Then in the 19th century came the great evolutionists, Darwin, Wallace, Spencer, Fiske, Huxley, and Haekel.

      A wave of excitement swept over the world. The Mystery of Van has been solved. He is an improved Ape.

      And for the next half century pseudo-scientists were busy writing books to picture the progress of the ape on to the stone-age man, and on to modern man, the scientist.

      O. A. Wall, M.D., Ph.G., Ph.M., in his great work "Sex and Sex Worship," published in 1918, said:

      "I graduated as a physician from Bellevue Medical College in the same year that Darwin published his work on the ‘Descent of Man;’ the ‘Conflict between Science and Religion’ which ensued, was fought out and the truth of the theory of evolution was established within the period of my professional career. And with this victory of human thought, many superstitions faded away" (p. 37).

      Time has proven that Wall reached the wrong conclusion.

      With the origin of man settled, the next step was to solve the problem of his animation. What makes him a living soul?

      Then up rose the great Osler, and with haughty ease and mighty wisdom, he filled in this gap by solely declaring: Life is the expression of a series of chemical changes (Mod. Med. 1907, p. 39).

      Another great scientist, Alexis Carrel, was not so easily satisfied about the Mystery of Man. He said, "The science of man is still too rudimentary to be useful" (Man The Unknown, p. 179).

      That means the complete collapse of the theory of evolution. And we are right back where we began two hundred years ago.

      The work of the evolutionists gave the world two theories of existence, which sore students describe by the terms Evolution and Involution, and refer respectively to God and to Environment as the source of origin.

      Evolution: A series of things unrolled, unfolded, or evolved; as, the evolution of the ages.—Dict.

      Involution: The Action of involving or infolding; the state of being entangled; complexity; a complication.—Dict.

      The definition of Involution exactly describes the position of the Inductive Scientists. They are so badly entangled in the complexity and complication of their theories of man, that their bewilderment is complete.

      A few facts have indeed been verified and recorded by the Inductive Scientists, and a few laws have been approximately formulated. But all of this is subject to revision or even reversion tomorrow.

      Give to this Science the broadest scope and most liberal-meaning claimed for it, and still it has no existence save in man’s imagination. It is no sense stands for Nature, but is, at best, Nature reflected in the beclouded and contradictory Mind of the Inductive Scientist.

      Nature presents realities, but the Inductionist deals with shadows and phantoms.

      Harmonious relation of the varied parts, otherwise term-end consistency or congruity, is the acknowledged fact of Universal Existence.

      The whole, being composed of the parts, makes every part necessarily consistent with the whole.

      The most perfect analogies will be found between the parts. That is the reason why Nature, true Science and Logic are indissolubly connected, illustrating the same principles and tending to the same conclusions.

      Not only does every particle of matter in the universe agrees with every other particle, process and product, but with these must also agree and be in perfect harmony, every postulate and every conclusion.

      To discover the Eternal Unity at the Center where all the parts meet, and the Eternal Plan by which—they are all merged into a consistent whole, is to make the basic discovery that solves the Riddle of the Universe.

      The Leading question is whether the process of transformation is one of evolution or of involution.

      Prof. Henry Drummond was enthusiastic about the theory of evolution that swept the world of science in the 19th. Century, and discussed it with much fluency in his Natural Law in the Spiritual World, but more especially in his Ascent of Man, concluding the later work with a chapter on Involution, in which he repeats and condenses his arguments of his Natural Law, and urges that the supreme factor in all development is Environment."

      He said that tree and root find their explanation not in something in themselves, but mainly in something outside of themselves

      The secret of Evolution lies, he says, with Environment. Then, as if to explain his statements more fully, he says:

      Evolution is not to unfold from within; it is to infold from without (Ascent of Man, p. 324).

      The scientists and theorists make their own definition of words to suit their own convenience and notions.

      Environment cannot produce that which did not previously exist potentially. But once a thing comes into being, Environment may supply the conditions, or constitute the occasion, for calling forth the powers, not of the Environment, but inherent in the thing itself.

      The process is Evolution in its only true sense—the outworking of internal powers. But the evolutionists reverse the process, making it the inworking of external forces.

      The basic question is, are vital phenomena of all kinds, the product of external agencies,

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