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which has doomed more lives to death under the sign of the 

 Cross than Rome massacred to create the first nation of com- 

 merce, and build its mighty empire. So religion gives birth 

 to Government which by causing stability, comparative wealth 

 and ease, follows as a natural result. This gives time and 

 opportunity for study and advances science, which on the 

 Twelfth Day begins to influence the existence of the world. 



If the reader turns to line 12 in Table II. and reads 

 Imagination marries Comprehension, he will see that it is not 

 incorrect to say that the outcome of this marriage or manhood 

 of the evolutions of Imagination and Comprehension is the 

 birth and childhood of Understanding. Science by our Table, 

 is to give birth on the Thirteenth Day to Commerce. 

 Por is not Commerce the complete material product of 

 civilisation which was conceived on the Sixth Day with the 

 creation of animal mind, and born on the Ninth Day, with 

 the result, Study, which is the material evolution of Science. 



If my hypothesis is correct,, three days or stages of 

 evolution are devoted to its conception, three days to its 

 childhood, and three days to its manhood, after which follows 

 the result of these evolutions, the material and psychical 

 existence having formed two such periods of evolution. Hence, 

 looking back, we find that our Table II. predicts as follows : 

 that Soul starts Existence on the fourth day with the creation 

 of life to give birth to Imagination on the Seventh Day by 

 the birth of a soul in man, and comes to maturity in the germ 

 of religion on the Tenth Day and arrives at manhood on the 

 Thirteenth Day with the creation of Commerce, which History 

 shows us is the child of religion, fostered under her care and 

 protection, and fed with the feeding-bottle of religious wars, 

 greed and bigotry. The result of this is the final gift to man, 

 that of Invention, on the Fourteenth Day, by the birth of 

 Christ, just as the first redemption gave mankind the grace 

 of Love and its concurrent power to imagine and pray to a 

 God whom he could not see or comprehend, which led to 

 Idolatry, the first form of Religion, by making it possible for 

 man as well as woman to possess the female quality of Love, 

 and so laid the foundation-stone of devotion. So in like 

 manner the second redemption by Buddha gave man the power 

 to comprehend Mercy, Honour and Justice as he rose to not 

 only imagine a God, but to comprehend that there existed 



