48 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



is to prepare nature for the birth of the human mind three days 

 later on the eighth day, and civilisation on the ninth day of 

 creation. But as mind in animals is the commencement of 

 Soul in mankind, it is all in due order of my Hypothesis, and 

 also of Evolution, that Soul and Wisdom should here combine 

 for the first time in our Table to prepare for the conception 

 of the human soul opposite Religion and Study. But this will 

 be explained hereafter, so I will not go into it here, but simply 

 remark that this period corresponds with the creation of the 

 mammoth race of animals, which is represented by biblical 

 angels ; so in this sense both the marriages of Trinity and 

 Evolution correspond, for the result marriage corresponds 

 with the completion of sex in its highest development human 

 marriage. After the fifth day, when the ant-eaters, etc., are 

 evolved, upon this the sixth day sex becomes complete as the 

 creation of human marriage takes the place of indis- 

 criminate selection in the course of evolution, and on the 

 seventh day Mind is conceived and thus marks the creation 

 of the likeness to God in the mind of mankind, so that the 

 first, appearance of Soul in our Table was right in its order 

 because the Human Mind is in one sense the first dawn of 

 soul, although it is not the birth of the human soul. I there- 

 fore concluded that I would be justified in here inserting the 

 trinity of the human soul, namely, IMAGINATION as the 

 seventh day, COMPREHENSION as the eighth day, and 

 UNDERSTANDING as the ninth day, as these three quali- 

 ties represent the human soul in the same manner as SPIRIT, 

 EXISTENCE and SOUL represent Infinity and Deity. 



I then found that they corresponded with the seventh and 

 eighth and ninth days of evolution which were devoted to the 

 production of Human Will, by means of the Evolution of 

 Imagination, the production of Skill and Agriculture through 

 the evolution of Comprehension, and on the ninth day of the 

 dawn only of Civilisation by the dawn only of the wisdom of 

 Understanding. I now found that the marriages of God's 

 Trinity again corresponded with the course of evolution. For 

 the fifth marriage of the Trinity reads THOUGHT marries 

 LIFE and begets KNOWLEDGE. Thought, Life and Know- 

 ledge make Study, and we find in Evolution that on the tenth 

 day at which we have now arrived, Study commences to create 

 Religion, and Religion is the first great result of Thought in 



