66 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



Now the eve and the morning of the 5th Day, make up the 

 5th, 6th, and the yth Days which are to mark the creation 

 of the body, mind, and of Imagination on the yth Day, which 

 is the day that marks the first dawn of Soul proper in the 

 mind of man. Thus, if the reader studies Tables I., II., and 

 III. carefully, he will find that they are correct in order and 

 correspond with the course of evolution. I wish here to point 

 out to the reader that the biblical day of Genesis is not a day 

 of the week, but a day of evolution. The entire course of 

 evolution is made up of three epochs or weeks of seven days 

 or stages. These are ist, Faith or Convolution ; 2nd, Hope 

 or Evolution ; 3rd, Charity or Involution. But as Genesis 

 only deals with the first week namely, pre-historic creation, 

 its statement is quite correct that the world with which it had 

 to deal was made in six days, and finished on the yth, for 

 it took six days to make the world and the Seventh Day was 

 devoted to making man's mind and was to mark his superiority 

 over the world of angels or creation of mammoth animals, as 

 also the evolution of human will, which was to be his first 

 step towards the development of the human mind and soul. 

 So the statements are quite correct. 



To return to the Sixth Day, with which we are now dealing, 

 we find it marks the dawn of animal mind and the inception of 

 Imagination, in its humbler form of animal instinct. In the 

 column of soul we find we have arrived at mind. Now the 

 Sixth and Seventh Day mark that at this period the develop- 

 ment of God's Trinity is to commence its first stage by the 

 evolution of the animal mind, which, as will hereafter be 

 shown, is evolved from the attributes of the Trinity of God 

 Almighty, and also to impress upon our minds that the Spirit 

 of revelation is now to take an active part instead of being 

 dormant, as it has been heretofore, in the creation of matter 

 during the seven days of Faith. But we must bear in mind 

 that in this the animal stages or ages of evolution there is no 

 such thing as virtue, for virtue necessitates knowledge of 

 right and wrong. Hence we can only at present follow the 

 evolution of the lower types of the properties of the develop- 

 ment of the Trinity. Hence the germ of a more perfect 

 development of mind is in this period confined to the animals 

 selecting the most perfect of their numbers in physical develop- 

 ment to act as leaders to the rest. And man as ape men 



