92 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



face of the globe, leading by the hand their granddaughter, the 

 bright-eyed, fair-haired Joy and Comfort making child of 

 Study and Science, Invention, who with tottering steps fol- 

 lows her leader and tries to keep pace with grandmother's 

 footsteps, but who is destined to become the mighty queen of 

 earth ; and is to enable the mind and soul of man to convert 

 this world of ours from one of murder, war, cruelty and selfish 

 greed into one of brotherly love, joy, pleasure, content and 

 happiness, and so by conquering the world and destroying 

 war and crime to finally convert it into a perfect and contented 

 heaven and a fitting home for immortal man. 



This brings us to the age now dawning, the Fourteenth Day 

 of creation, wherein man, by his inventions, is to conquer the 

 whole world, by bringing it entirely under his control. In so 

 doing he will, by learning how to use not abuse his inventive 

 power, produce on the Fifteenth Day, the Age of Peace. 



For this power of invention will make war such an 

 expensive luxury, and the cause of such unprecedented 

 poverty, that it will in the near future teach mankind that war 

 which, in the Epoch of Hope has been one of its three highest 

 virtues, namely, Cruelty, Selfishness and war, is a barbarous 

 device ; though without making" idols of these three gods it 

 would have been impossible,, in early days, to enforce religion 

 and laws on the community, to build up empires, or to estab- 

 lish commerce. These, however, are in reality only wolves 

 in sheep's clothing, and they will, with bigotry, tyranny, 

 inordinate love of wealth and greed, have in the future to give 

 place to a more perfect understanding of revelation and a 

 better knowledge of right and wrong and a more perfect form 

 of tolerance, practical charity and co-operative production, in 

 which the object shall not be to punish crime under the vain 

 hope that the criminal can be converted, but to forgive the 

 sinner and prevent the criminal from breeding, and so prevent 

 the perpetuation of crime. This will ultimately come about 

 as man evolves the legacy of Understanding, into possession 

 of which he is now coming, and which will teach him not to 

 abuse the home, mind and soul God has endowed him with. 

 Then upon the Fifteenth Day he will move one step further 

 than at present, conquer war by creating peace amongst 

 nations, in the same manner as by Science and Invention he 

 has conquered the world and created commerce, and learn how 



