How is Evolution explained from the point of view of the spirit?

[Javblanc]

The path to overcoming the Fall, what we call Evolution, has to necessarily go from Something to Someone, since the Fall consisted of the inverse transition (although actually, the starting point, as we believe we know, dates much further back to Nothingness or Non–Being). From the numerous versions of the Fall offered to us by the Kabbalah (except we’re not talking about a Fall in the strictest sense here, but more of a voluntary descent), the most succinct one says that the What split off or emanated from the Who (in Hebrew: Elé split off or emanated from Mi). The What or the Something is Matter, the unconscious, the impersonal; it’s located in the outer circles of the cosmic mandala. The Who or Someone is the Spirit, consciousness, the person, and it lives in the Centre, in the Hidden Point.
Matter is the quality of the impersonal, of objects, while the Spirit is personal. Human beings are in the middle of those two characteristics, between the Something and the Someone. We already are “someone”, but we’re still “something” too; our soul is still connected to an ego, it’s still a carnal soul. The next evolutionary step consists of letting go of our ego, or our “something”. The ancient sages saw this step (which, in its second phase, is the responsibility of each one of us) as an internal process of purification, of undressing. “Some people are afraid that they may arise from the dead naked, and so they want to arise in flesh. They do not know that it is those who wear the [flesh] who are naked. Those who are [able] to take it off are not naked.” That is a fragment of the Gnostic Gospel of Philip. Out of all the ancient sages, the Gnostics were perhaps the ones who more often used the metaphor of internal stripping as man’s essential task. Thus, in the Saviour’s Dialogue, Matthew asks Jesus for “the place in Life… where there is no darkness, but a pure a light”, to which Jesus responds, “While you carry that flesh, you will not see it.” Another example is the saying “When you disrobe without being ashamed and take up your garments and place them under your feet like little children and tread on them, then will you see the son of the living one, and you will not be afraid.”