28 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



they tend to act as a finger-post to point out the way to arrive 

 at the true understanding of all the mysteries of revelation, 

 that even at the risk of being thought profane and conceited, 

 I ultimately decided to try and unwind their mysteries and 

 make them known to others, hoping that some amongst my 

 readers might be able to improve upon the constructions I 

 have put upon them so as to be able to make them useful to 

 mankind in the future. 



I am far too humble to imagine that these two tables are the 

 result of any knowledge of my own, but am more inclined to 

 look upon them as some more than usual inspiration than as a 

 creation of my own imagination, for I am not of an imaginative 

 disposition and in a busy, active life have got into looking at 

 facts in a hard, practical manner, and have a very small 

 opinion of any theory that will not stand the test of experiment, 

 use, or mathematical demonstration. Therefore, under these 

 circumstances, knowing that I have a decidedly logical and 

 mathematical mind, I decided to see how far these tables 

 would stand the test of logic and mathematical investigation, 

 and if satisfied with the result that I would risk all criticism 

 and chance its publication in the hope that it might enable 

 others besides myself to get a clearer idea of the truths of the 

 revelation and of the knowledge of the past, which I always 

 consider to be the best way of learning how to make use of 

 the future, also hoping that it might do something to remove 

 bigotry and superstition, two evils which have in the past 

 done so much to retard man's advancement, and hung like a 

 mighty curtain between the visions of the soul and man's 

 understanding of truth. 



When the reader turns to the two tables of the Trinity, 

 which I have written down just as they appeared to me that 

 Sunday evening, I think he will, upon further study of their 

 significance, agree with me that for such a result to accrue 

 from so apparently nonsensical a collection of words, and 

 from an assertion that at first sight appeared to be almost 

 blasphemous, is something more than chance, and for the same 

 reason he will understand that for me to have evolved them 

 from any rational line of thought is equally as inconceivable ; 

 yet so necessary have they been to the correct elucidation of 

 this treatise that if I tried to work it out without their being 

 before my eyes to check ofF my work, as also the mathematical 



