74 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



But we have as yet only arrived at the Seventh, Eighth and 

 Ninth Days of Evolution which mark the inception of Soul 

 and the birth of Mind in mankind, when God said " Let us 

 make man in our own image and likeness." This is the first 

 occasion since the commencement of creation, that the whole 

 of the three persons of the Trinity of God the Father, God 

 the Mother, and God the Soul have all three conjoined to take 

 part in the work of creation. So upon the Seventh Day 

 which completes the creation of the world in the Bible God 

 has carefully used the words : " God created this, or God 

 created that to recreate itself to its own image and likeness." 

 But now the wording is altered to " Let us create man to our 

 own image and likeness," thus strongly marking the new 

 departure that is to be taken in the evolution of man's mind. 

 But up to now the work of creation has not been made in 

 God's image and likeness, for God cannot sin, so sin cannot 

 possibly be made in the likeness of God, and likewise up till 

 now evolution has been confined to the creation of a material 

 universe and the body of man, and as God is a spirit nothing 

 that is not a spirit or spiritual and invisible can be in the true 

 likeness of an invisible spirit. The only possible likeness in 

 matter can be its trinity of force being a likeness of His 

 Trinity. 



But now man is to perfect his material evolution by becom- 

 ing an adept in the arts of sinning, which is one of the three 

 great blessings cf creation, and so evolve his material and 

 bodily perfections of courage and energy and become possessed 

 of virtue. I hear you say, dear reader, " but sin is not a 

 blessing." On this point I am afraid we must agree to differ, 

 unless you will agree to alter your opinion, for perfect virtue 

 can only be evolved by overcoming crime ; and note sin is not 

 an evil, for in the abstract nothing that produces good can be 

 evil, and it is only by sin and failure that we can learn to 

 attain to perfection and earn the reward of virtue. But in- 

 temperance in sin is crime and crime is always an evil. The 

 second great blessing of life is ill-health. This is ordained to 

 be the language used by God to warn man not to abuse the 

 body and bodily capabilities which he has entrusted to the 

 care of each one of us for the short space of our mortal exist- 

 ence in order that we may, by making the best use of it 

 possible, pass on a better and more perfect body and mind to 



