;o THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



that the evolution of the attributes of God the Father are 

 always two days in advance of those of God the Mother and 

 three days in advance of those of God the Soul, although the 

 three evolutions overlap and are so to speak concurrent but 

 more or less antagonistic. 



Now, turning to Table III., you will find that the Seventh 

 Day, with which we are now dealing, marks the age of Cain, 

 or the stage of evolution which is devoted to the fight between 

 Savagery and Civilisation, when man, having attained per- 

 fection in murder and cannibalism, thereby established his 

 supremacy over the rest of creation, and so fitted himself to 

 receive a soul of wisdom, or at kast its first attributes of 

 Imagination and Comprehension on the Seventh, Eighth, and 

 Ninth Days to evolve Agriculture and Civilisation. When 

 the germ of Understanding is now to assist him to develop 

 civilisation and agriculture, and help him. to overcome those 

 crimes by leaving his life of nomadic hunting, and taking 

 more to a vegetable diet, for the sin wherewith Eve was 

 tempted was when the serpent or mammoth creation of reptiles 

 tempted her as an ape to leave a fruit diet for one of meat and 

 asked man to kill to appease her hunger, not for self -protec- 

 tion, which constitutes animal murder. Woman is now to be 

 the means of making him relinquish his life of hunting and 

 murder, and as her love of home now begins to exert some 

 influence on her life, of helping him to reform these crimes, 

 and to evolve religion and society and so to merit the reward 

 of forgiveness. 



So as he progresses during the Eighth and Ninth Days, the 

 age of Cain or age of agriculture, and the age of Abel or age 

 of civilisation, to evolve the qualities of soul, viz., Imagination, 

 on the Seventh Day, and Comprehension, on the Eighth Day, 

 and the dawn of Understanding on the Ninth Day, his mind 

 will then have sufficiently developed for woman to be able, by 

 the aid of religion, which is evolved on the Tenth Day, to 

 crush the head of the serpent of man's murderous and canni- 

 balistic propensities. 



We have now carried the comparison and explanation of 

 our Tables II. and HI. so far as they relate to the Epoch of 

 Faith, and have arrived at the Eighth Day, which is the first 

 day of the Epoch of Hope, during which man is to perfect 

 his human body by the acquirement of habits of work and 



