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 perfect glance of a subject the enormity of which, and the 

 wealth of knowledge and understanding that this little key 

 would be able to unlock, when I could hand it over to wiser 

 minds and heads than mine, fairly appalled me. 



With its assistance God, Earth and Heaven could be brought 

 within the understanding of man, the same as with a telescope 

 dim and indistinct objects are brought within the range of the 

 eye with increased clearness and distinctness. For, as is 

 explained further on, it is only during the last one hundred 

 years that the property of understanding has dawned upon 

 man, so that up to a few short years ago the mind of man had 

 not sufficiently advanced along the pathway of Evolution for 

 him to be capable of understanding divine revelations ; and as 

 God never permits any portion of his wisely organised system 

 of creation to evolve till the world is ready to receive it, he 

 had ordained that his revelations should be made known only 

 in parable and fable, and so has kept this marvellous key a 

 secret until to-day, and I now understand the significance of 

 these words of Christ's when he said to his apostles, " To 

 others it is not given to understand ; only in fables and 

 parables. I come not to destroy what your fathers and the 

 prophets taught, but rather to expound and make clear their 

 teachings that seeing you may comprehend, and comprehending 

 you may believe, but when the Holy Ghost shall come upon 

 you He will teach you all things, even to the consummation 

 of the world." 



And as will be shown hereafter this coming of the Holy 

 Ghost is not to be any visible or miraculous apparition as was 

 the apostolic display, for, as will also be shown hereafter, both 

 the Spirit of God the Father in the past, i.e., the Spirit of 

 Divine Revelation, has been and always will be transmitted 

 from father to son, so also with the Spirit of God the Holy 

 Ghost, i.e., the Spirit of Understanding, which is the Spirit 

 of God the Holy Ghost, and which is transmitted from father 

 to son shall in the course of Evolution be granted to mankind 

 when the real descent of the Holy Ghost shall in the ordinary 

 course of Evolution become known to his mind, and so en- 

 lighten his understanding that knowing he may understand 

 all things even to the consummation of the world. And so 

 wonderful a light did these two pieces of paper appear to me 

 to offer to man's mind, and in such a marvellous manner did 



