The belief that human beings have evolved from monkeys is a false and degenerative belief. Whether it be the strict Darwinism of Natural Science, or the Alien God Ideology of the New Age, animals have never been part of the natural human stream.

In Spiritual Science it is understood that the lower kingdoms of the earth emerged out of the human form, or the divine human template, in earlier non-physical epochs of the earth.

Thus, all beings from all kingdoms of life (elemental, mineral, plant and animal) exist within the human form. And, they emerged from the human template, not the other way around.

Rudolf Steiner, over a hundred years ago, warned us about the dangers of believing that we stemmed from animals.

“…if we consider Darwinism a basis for the only view of the world that is valid, if we believe that the only true view is that human beings descended from animals, and if we live with this thought within ourselves — I descended from the animals, I originate only from such forces that also create the animals — then this leads souls in the present to become similar to their own thought conceptions of themselves!

If people believe (here in the physical body) that only animal forces were active in their evolution, then they will fashion for themselves a consciousness for the time after death that will cause them to see themselves as animals. “

Here Steiner illustrates an important point: our idea about our origins as human beings affects our souls experience after death! Our understanding of creation can create a structure of support upon our passing, or one of confusion.

When we consider this, inverting and confusing our origin story is a means of control for lower forces as it makes our soul identify with dark and chaotic forces upon our death.