50 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



CHARITY. As I have now arrived at the realms of futurity, 

 I will leave my reader to put his own construction on the 

 rest of these wonderfully significant marriages ; but as I have 

 shown that for over fifteen thousand millions of years, or 

 more, certainly not less, they have coincided with the course 

 of creation, it logically follows that they are also likely to do 

 so in the future. 



I think I have now demonstrated the manner in which God 

 withdrew the attributes of God the Mother and of God the 

 Soul and most of those of God the Father from the rest of His 

 Infinite Being to bring about Creation, and is slowly returning 

 them to bring about Evolution. So in this manner a finite 

 existence became evolved. And the Infinity of the Almighty 

 is materialised by the substitution of a finite visible part within 

 an infinite invisible whole. But I here ask you if God is 

 infinitely wise and infinitely powerful why did he not create 

 a perfect existence ? Why did he produce all this misery and 

 suffering? For many reasons. To begin with, if God had 

 created a perfect creation it would not only have had to be in 

 His Likeness, but to be perfect would have had to be a perfect 

 likeness of Himself. This would and could only have resulted 

 in the existence of two infinite beings, quod absurdo, and we 

 should have obtained the highest of religious evolutions when 

 we arrived at idolatry. Also if there had been no struggle 

 involved, VIRTUE, which is the principle of finite perfection, 

 would never have been reached, and God being wise was sure to 

 aim at adding some more magnificent form of Infinity to that 

 which existed, rather than do anything that could reduce its 

 glory and lustre, and in the creation of a virtuous finite exist- 

 ence wished to add fresh glory to the whole. And I have 

 already shown that in so doing he would have frustrated the 

 object of Creation, so the only way open to Him was to create 

 a finite part differently constituted, but not separate, from 

 Himself, which, through toil and suffering and labour might 

 after millions of years of constant energy by its perseverance 

 in Labour, Skill, Economy and Wisdom, evolve the greatest 

 amount of Virtue possible that he might have a bright and 

 shining diadem with which to crown His majestic head. 



My Tables and figures and Nature and Evolution go to 

 demonstrate that at the end of the world when man gains 

 immortality there will be the same distinction, for then this 



