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admit so far as I am able to judge, it is wisest not to aim too 

 high, and to accept the only logical solution that remains, 

 which is that the height of perfection of life is temperance in 

 all things, not total abstinence, and that it is better to be an 

 honest sinner than a hypocritical saint. 



Now I have already shown that evolution moves three paces 

 forward and then two back. When we review Table II. in this 

 light we notice that God first divorces Existence, secondly 

 divorces Soul. He then advances Power to Thought, which 

 brings us three paces down the column of Spirit and then goes 

 back and brings Existence up to Love. Then moves Spirit up 

 to Existence to create Life, and then goes back to fetch up 

 Existence another step to create Animal Love, and now goes 

 back again three steps to Soul to get the seed for the Mind of 

 Man, and then goes across to the Left to get Love to come to 

 the front to start animal marriage. When the reader comes 

 to the chapter on Genesis, in Book II., he will see that the 

 same method is observed in the description therein given, and 

 . that this is what is meant by the use of the words " the eve 

 and the dawn were the third day." 



Turning to our Table, and reading horizontally across the 

 page, we get Power, Existence and Love make Matter, but 

 reading diagonally across the page from the column of Ex- 

 istence to the column of Spirit, we get Thought, which is 

 now to come into existence by an increase of the return of the 

 Spirit of Love to creation so as to create Life on the fourth 

 day. In the same way on the Fifth Day we retrace our steps 

 diagonally to the column of Soul and bring up the lowest order 

 of this personality of the trinity to create animal mind and 

 animal life which are to be the development of this age of 

 evolution, although strictly speaking Soul will not dawn till 

 the Seventh Day, when man is to gain Imagination ; yet the 

 creation of the animal mind may almost be considered as the 

 earliest dawn of Soul, nor will it be born until the coming of 

 Understanding on the Thirteenth Day. I will in a subse- 

 quent chapter show that the dawn of Soul on the Seventh Day, 

 and its birth on the Tenth Day mark two great new departures 

 in the methods or laws of Nature and Evolution, a fact that 

 hitherto no Hypothesis adduced by science or students of 

 evolution has been able to account for, that is, the change and 

 development of the mind of man from the mind of animal. 



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