EXPLANATION OF TABLES 71 



energy, and, having now been turned out of the Garden of 

 Eden, he has to earn his livelihood by the sweat of his brow, 

 through this Epoch of Hope, which is the epoch of strife, wars, 

 cruelty, selfishness and hate, during which he is to evolve a 

 human instead of an animal mind. 



This epoch, therefore, commences with the age of Abel 

 and Cain as representing the Aryan and Mongolian forms of 

 civilisation, and its first two days are devoted to the forma- 

 tion of the human mind by the evolution of the powers of 

 Imagination and Comprehension, which produce Civilisation 

 and Agriculture. It will be seen from this why I have in- 

 serted in its particular place in Table III. the human soul of 

 Imagination, Comprehension and Understanding, which is the 

 Trinity of the human soul, just in the same way as Spirit, 

 Existence and Soul is the trinity of the Soul of the Invisible 

 God. Please also compare with Tables I. and II. The de- 

 velopment of these qualities of soul is next to give rise to the 

 evolution of religion and study and governments, in the order 

 shown in Tables II. and III. 



This age marks the evolution of agriculture and the dawn 

 of civilisation, which we may justly consider as also the dawn 

 of the human mind and the first conception of the birth of 

 man's soul, in the form of human wisdom, which, you will 

 notice, marks the Sixth Day, by the dawn of mind, 

 Table III. The reader's attention is here drawn to the fact 

 that the trinity of soul, which forms the first trinity of the 

 result of the trinity of attributes, if read down Table I. to 

 line four, that is to say, Spirit, Power and Thought make 

 Imagination, gives in line four Imagination, Comprehension 

 and Understanding if read across the page, and is also the 

 trinity of the soul of man, and its production in the mind of 

 man is the main object, work and result of the whole labour 

 of evolution from the commencement of creation to the end 

 of the world. 



This forms the work of the Epoch of Hope, and is also the 

 end of the seven days of creation in Genesis, described as the 

 Epoch of Faith. Now the finite trinities of mind and soul 

 are 



The first finite trinity of God, POWER, LOVE and 

 WISDOM. 



