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some order of fear by means of which they may be able to 

 control their erring flocks ; hence they, not God, create a hell 

 of punishments, which now takes the form of the transmigra- 

 tion of soul whereby if you injure your neighbour in this life 

 you are to be condemned to suffer punishment in another life 

 by being interned in the body of his horse, cow or donkey till 

 you have made restitution by work or suffering for the evil 

 you have done him in this life, by the evils inflicted on you 

 by others while you were so transmogrified. 



To appeal to the mind of that day nothing that was not 

 supernatural would have been any use. For man was at 

 that age of the world's evolution just recovering from 

 the supernatural fears which the contests against the two 

 hundred thousand years of the glacial period had evolved in 

 his semi-developed mind. But as knowledge and civilisation 

 were gradually enabling him to gain an ascendancy over these 

 fears, and as he now begins to understand their causes, so 

 their effect as a deterrent from crime decreases as fast as the 

 temptations of civilisation tend to add to the attractiveness 

 of crime, and in this way the fear of this form of hell no 

 longer suffices to deter him from doing wrong, and it becomes 

 incumbent upon his religious leaders to evolve a newer means 

 of hell and punishment or a higher ideal of worship, so we 

 find this leads up to the next step in advancement and brings 

 us to the next age, the age of Governments, No. n in Table 

 III., which is the result of the sixth marriage of God's Trinity, 

 for if we turn to line n of Table II. we read Mind marries 

 Life and begets Human Will, and is it not true that Human 

 Will is made up of the two powers or forces of mind and life, 

 and that Government is the outcome of the use of our faculties 

 of Mind, Life and Human Will, just as much as Religion is 

 but the evolution of Thought, Life, Knowledge and Study? 

 So we find that the more we compare the course of the world's 

 evolution the more we find that the hypothesis continues to 

 be systematically carried out, for each stage is but the evolu- 

 tion by nature of some new combination of the attributes of 

 God's Trinity, just as each new form, shape or species is but 

 a new combination of the atoms of Matter that previously 

 existed. And we also find that now we have inserted the 

 trinity of man's soul in its correct place in the Tables, the 

 marriages of God's Trinity again coincide with the progress 



