Spiritual Parents

At the beginning of creation, there were very few souls who existed, and of those that did, they were quite enormous - with energies and consciousness taking up whole universes and galaxies. Like the original One God Consciousness they emerged from, these emense powerful primal and ancient souls chose to create smaller and smaller versions of themselves on lower and lower dimensions... eventually manifesting as us here on the physical.
A number of these Ancient Ones created new souls exclusively from out of their own being (perhaps as Adam did with the removal of one of his "ribs", thus creating Eve). Many others chose to mix and match... a seed from one (the father soul) and an egg from another (the mother soul) to form a hybrid soul (as humans we do this also). Some created souls were found lacking or "defective" and were later reintegrated or transmuted back into their Source. Other created souls were not reintegrated but left to flourish and evolve. This was a time of wild and wonderous experimentation when many souls created were not formed according to the normal human standards we know today, but as beings very different to us... thus the alien races - such as the reptilians, grays, and others - were born (those who have inner vision can see these beings existing on other dimensions). Exploring the limits of their abilities.. and expanding their knowledge base about the dualistic nature of creation (ie.the play of light and dark, good and evil) these ancient beings created not just benevolent... but malevolent offspring... hence the Demons (and their ilk) were born. The Ancients created souls according to any likeness they desired by the manipulation of their etheric blueprint and DNA. Taken a step further, they created and projected themselves into various animate life forms - as plants and animals... and even the inanimate forms - as rocks and minerals.

“In His perfect image God created Man”
Our Higher Self - originally made from the "likeness" or "blueprint" of our Creator God -  contains all of His characteristics and abilities. One such ability was that of self-procreation, which enabled our High Selves to re-create or project a likeness of themselves into the lower dimensions - known as our astral or “lower selves”. In turn, our lower self inherited that same ability to re-create or project itself into the physical dimension - what we here known and experience as our human self. Thus, if we look carefully, we may see reflected in our physical being the Higher Self (or aspects of our higher selves at any rate) and our Creator. One could say that "evolution" is the process where our Higher Self is constantly refining our human selves to match - not just the outer image, but the inner qualities of the Creator (one can look perfect, but lack something on the inside).