8 4 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



is to evolve by the religion and governments he is about to 

 create. After which, when he shall have learned, by commerce 

 and invention, to control and to govern the world of Matter, 

 he shall next learn how to govern himself and to use, not 

 abuse, the world that God has created for his ultimate reward. 

 During the one or two hundred thousand years that mark the 

 growth of civilisation and religion man has been hitherto 

 learning to see, study and to comprehend the works of God 

 which his mind is 3^et too young to understand, but having 

 risen above the state of animal mind, he is beginning to com- 

 prehend with the dawn of soul the meaning of forces that 

 hitherto only filled his mind with fear, grief or pleasure. 



This period also marks another point in the development of 

 my hypothesis, namely, that as soul returns to man, so the 

 attributes of the first person of the Trinity, God the Father, 

 are to be withdrawn. For it stands to reason that the whole 

 of the three personalities of God's Trinity cannot be present 

 at one and the same time, or the result would be the existence 

 of two infinitely wise beings, and two infinites could never 

 exist at one time; therefore during this period the power of 

 memory is withdrawn from the mind of man to admit of the 

 evolution of civilisation, and is replaced by the acquirement 

 of the attributes of Imagination and Comprehension to permit 

 him to evolve a mind capable of indistinctly recalling the 

 principal but indistinct results, of past events, the full know- 

 ledge of which would cause him to despair of all advancement. 

 The first result of the dawn of religion in the mind of man 

 is the comprehension of a higher ideal, and for a time this is 

 sufficient to restrain him from any grievous violation of the 

 requirements of primitive laws and order of early civilisation, 

 but as civilisation always has the effect that it offers newer 

 and more attractive allurements to crime than were possible 

 before it came into existence, so even to the minds of its 

 earliest promoters it soon began to offer new inducements to 

 sin ; jealousy, covetousness and larceny began to increase, and 

 the leaders and students of religion and its daughters, super- 

 stition and necromancy, found that the teaching of a better 

 ideal did not suffice to keep order and prevent crime ; so, as 

 fear is still the leading and controlling power of man's mind, 

 the seers and students, who formed the religious teachers of 

 the day, now set to work to elucidate some means of instilling 



