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extent or in what manner this was influenced. I now wish to 

 illustrate to the reader how these Tables and my Hypothesis 

 explain the method God has adopted.) The Spirit of Power 

 moves three steps and then returning to the column of Ex- 

 istence moves that on another step, now retraces its path to the 

 column of Soul and moves that on a step. In this manner 

 each column is kept two steps ahead of the one on its right- 

 hand side, and as will be illustrated later on in this treatise, 

 each evolution in turn is destroyed to make room for the one 

 that is following in its wake. Genesis, it will be shown, is 

 written in the same order. I wish the reader to keep in mind 

 that what is a virtue in one stage of Evolution is a crime in the 

 next. Thus in the Epoch of Faith murder is one of the vir- 

 tues which enables man to triumph over the animal kingdom, 

 but it becomes the highest crime by the end of the Epoch of 

 Hope. So in the Epoch of Hope war is made the highest of 

 virtues, but in the Epoch of Charity, yet to come as involution 

 advances, war is to become as high a crime as murder is to- 

 day. But were this not so, Commerce would never have been 

 established, or Invention evolved or the world exploited. So 

 also in the latter part of this same Epoch of Hope, Selfishness 

 is to be the virtue that is to spur man on to conquer worlds 

 and create Commerce, when it is in its turn to be conquered 

 by Charity, after which man will be able to wipe out all 

 classes of crime, which will be achieved by Evolution exter- 

 minating all who cannot learn to sin without injury to their 

 neighbour, which is ultimately to become the acme of perfec- 

 tion. And this will be the only way that man can gain Heaven 

 and Immortality. For sin will cease to be an evil when man 

 can sin 



Firstly : Without marring the pleasure of others. 



Secondly : Without injuring others or making them dis- 

 contented. 



Thirdly : When by so doing he adds to the pleasure and 

 happiness only of others, not to their injuty. 



Hence it follows that when man learns how to sin without 

 causing Discontent, Sorrow or Grief, sin will no longer be a 

 crime. For what wrong can there be in an act which injures 

 no one, and only increases the happiness of others? 



The mathematical table which this Hypothesis evolves shows 

 the equation of creation to be 



