Fundamental Anthropology: The Triple Vocation of Man: Holiness, Science, Arts by Gérard GETREY
"Primitive or traditional society (...) knows this deep down, and it says it very clearly: its being and its existence are not perfect in comparison to the being and existence that it is permissible to attribute to the gods. But it says in the process, just as clearly, that man can bring his being and his existence closer to that of a god, that he is capable of doing so even here below, that it is desirable that he do so so that one day he may rise or be raised to attain a sort of plenitude, or even accomplishment of the being that he truly contains within him. The expressions and concrete modalities are therefore diverse, but the elementary ontological information is universal: man is never more human than when he stretches his being and his existence higher.
The human entity fully responds to the vocation that is his if he consents to sanctify himself or to let himself be sanctified, to divinize or to let his being divinize here below, in the perspective of a better life in the hereafter. And this, ancient or traditional society still teaches, supposes a passage from the old being or existence to a new being and existence. This transformation to which primitive humanity knows it is invited does not consist of an evolution brought about over time by Nature. Nor does it have anything to do with a kind of genetic mutation that could occur, which would gradually or suddenly make Man a kind of superman. Man is free, and he must win, deserve his superior existence, through real efforts. Otherwise, the entity also knows this with equal certainty, it could lose itself, fall lower than the animal, sink into unhappiness and die to itself." (Gérard Getrey, Fundamental Anthropology)