EXPLANATION OF TABLES 69 



may lead him to commit, to become worthy to gain the reward 

 of slowly evolving a perfect soul, worthy of an immortal ex- 

 istence. 



But in the Epoch of Faith he has only had to develop a 

 perfect body and shape. We now find that by his love of 

 fighting, and by the fact that during his life he has also learnt 

 to stand erect, he is fit to evolve a mind. This has not been 

 the result of a moment, for whereas it has, so far as we can 

 approximately estimate, only taken over half a million of 

 years to evolve his mind up to its present standard, we cannot 

 put the time devoted to the development of this upright posi- 

 tion down at less than nine or ten millions of years, so much 

 more rapid is the development of mind than of body. And 

 there is nothing more striking than the second great de- 

 parture that has taken place during the last one hundred years. 

 I allude to the rapid manner in which we now change our 

 opinions on subjects as compared with the rate of thought 

 before man had come, in the course of evolution, to the age 

 of understanding, which he has only attained during the last 

 century. When we stop to consider that it took the Egyp- 

 tians over two thousand years to realise the folly of drawing 

 an illustration to explain the meaning of each word they wrote, 

 this seems to me to be as great an advancement as that which 

 he made when he left off barking or chattering like an ape, 

 and started to talk. 



He has now learnt to stand upright, and this, as will here- 

 after be demonstrated, permits of his coming under the in- 

 fluence of the electrical currents and influences that produce 

 mind and soul. Under these influences he will in future be 

 able to develop and acquire the properties and attributes of 

 God the Holy Ghost, to be influenced by which forces to any 

 great extent, it is necessary that the spine should be in an 

 upright position. Thus his animal mind of thought is turned 

 into a human one, endowed 1 with the soul of Imagination, Com- 

 prehension and Understanding, so that he is now able to 

 evolve a soul capable of the powers of conception. This marks 

 the first great departure in the course of evolution. The 

 second does not arrive until somewhere about the year 

 1800 A.D., and we are now discussing a period somewhere about 

 three hundred thousand years before Christ. 



Dear reader, please try to keep this constantly in mind, 



