As Grosso points out, the seed-idea of Conscious Evolution cracked its shell with the Babylonian Creation Epic, the story of Gilgamesh, where Marduk creates a new world out of chaos. It sent its first green shoot upward with Zoroaster, the great Iranian mystic, who foresaw that death would be overcome, that bodily resurrection would occur, that spiritual equality was the way, that evil would be destroyed and all souls would be saved. Even upon the manservants and maidservants in those days, I will pour out my spirit. In the birth, teachings, crucifixion, resurrection and ascension of Jesus we find the transformed human embodied. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
Death is swallowed up in victory.
O grave, where is thy victory. This seed of something new began to bud as a young tree of life in the 12th century with Joachim of Fiore. He saw the Trinity in a historical progression from the Age of the Father, to the Age of the Son, to the Age of the Holy Spirit. Joachim revealed that we are to become a New People under the guidance of the Third Person of the Trinity. It stretched its branches in the Enlightenment with such documents as the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.