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them and see if they did in reality contain the importance 

 that appeared to be in them when I first beheld them. For 

 as I found that I went about my business and that my head 

 was as collected as ever, I came to the conclusion it was no 

 temporary derangement of my imagination, but a stern 

 reality, so I decided that I would try and think and work out 

 this wonderful problem that these two slips of paper contained. 



Table I. contained nothing new to me. For years it had 

 been taught me from childhood as the Trinity and the Per- 

 sonality of God, and that the twenty-one attributes therein 

 contained constituted the sum of the seven gifts, graces, facul- 

 ties or qualities, term them what you like, that the three per- 

 sonages of God's Trinity were believed, each respectively, to 

 confer or grant or bestow upon mankind. How old or how 

 long this belief has been held or taught, or whether or not its 

 historic origin is pre-Christian, I cannot say, but if the latter, 

 its tabulation in the exact order I have given it, is certainly 

 post-Christian. But some of the old eastern legends I have 

 read make me inclined to fancy that its earliest conception, in 

 a partially evolved form or in the forms of presentiment, is 

 pre-Christian, although in a less tangible order of thought in 

 a dimly comprehensible manner. 



With two exceptions, namely, that the two first stages of 

 evolution were wanting, the results of the marriages of the 

 attributes of the Trinity which I have evolved, contained the 

 whole of the stages of the world's evolution, provided that the 

 trinity of the Human Soul (Line No. 4, Table I.) be inserted 

 at the place which corresponded to the birth of mind in man- 

 kind in the course of evolution, and that Heaven and Immor- 

 tality were added as the final results of creation, not only up 

 to to-day, but even to the end of the world, from Eternity to 

 Eternity. Why was it not complete, and why did not these 

 marriages of God's Trinity account also for the two first days 

 or stages of Creation ? Why these two missing links ? I strove 

 to think the puzzle out, when it dawned upon my mind that if 

 fourteen out of the nineteen days I had arrived at were marri- 

 ages of God's Trinity, it would not be illogical to conclude that 

 the missing two stages were divorces instead of marriages. And 

 if this were the case, a still more wonderful solution of the 

 problem of evolution rose before my mind as to the manner in 

 which creation had taken place, as will be shown hereafter. 



