2 6 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



amazement as what it contained slowly dawned upon my 

 astonished mind. " And still I gazed and still the wonder 

 grew " that two small pieces of, paper could contain all I saw. 



I sat there thunderstruck, and motionless, unable to take my 

 eyes off those two pieces of paper which now lay staring me in 

 the face, slowly but surely forcing upon my mind the enor- 

 mous magnitude of their weight and importance, as their 

 meaning became apparent to me. For there I beheld, with the 

 exception of the two first stages or days of Creation, Evolu- 

 tion and History, nineteen out of the twenty-one days of 

 existence in the order that they had taken place, if I made 

 allowances for the insertion of the trinity of the soul of man 

 at the place where Evolution showed his mind had been evolved, 

 so by inserting the trinity of his soul as above, and assuming 

 that Heaven and Immortality would be the two last days of 

 Creation, this gave me nineteen out of the twenty-one days of 

 existence as they have, and most probably will transpire in 

 the course of Evolution. 



They opened clearly before my mind's eye as I had never 

 been able to comprehend it before, the truth and meaning of 

 the mystery of one Almighty Creator of all things, who was 

 one being possessed of three personalities, each of which con- 

 tained seven attributes of marks or qualities ; the necessity for 

 the creation of the world, of man, or earth, sin, virtue, and 

 heaven in a clear and understandable light which I could never 

 before have thought of or conceived had any connection with 

 Evolution, and which it appears to me unlikely that I or 

 anyone else would have ever conceived ; had not this apparently 

 ridiculous collection of words come into my mind, for under 

 no ordinary circumstances should I have turned to the 

 attributes of the Trinity of God for the solution of the problems 

 of Evolution, but I should have endeavoured to reason them 

 out in an ordinary way had not this apparent answer been 

 vouchsafed to my half-expressed prayer in this extraordinary 

 manner. 



The intermarrying of the attributes of God's personalities 

 had indeed placed in my hands a key that would, in time, with 

 thought and study enable mankind to unlock the door and 

 enter the portal of Evolution, and ultimately to be able to 

 understand divine revelations, at which through the slightly- 

 ajar door I was now gazing, and getting a first and very im- 



