96 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



ample, in bodily features the members of a family vary so 

 much that they have no resemblance to each other, neverthe- 

 less, running through the family is some distinction of feature 

 that marks a decided bond of family union, not apparent in 

 every member of the family, yet so often reproduced that in 

 the majority of its members we are able to detect the family 

 likeness, and in the majority of cases its members changing 

 so little that we are able, if we review the portraits in an old 

 family portrait gallery, to see how the present type is only the 

 growth of the combined types of the past. 



I intend to demonstrate that mental reproduction obeys the 

 same laws. 



Now, before going further, I wish to point out that some of 

 the most important matters the reader must never for a 

 moment lose sight of, if he wishes to comprehend this treatise, 

 are : 



ist. That there is a female gender to the Trinity of God, to 

 emphasise which I use the term " God the Mother " in 

 place of " God the Son." 



2nd. That the first law produced by our logical review of 

 the cause and probable manner of creation, once we 

 admit that man is created in God's image and likeness, 

 necessitates a likeness in gender as well as in soul; 

 also that at no time can the three persons of God's 

 Trinity be entirely reproduced in man or we would be 

 creating two infinite beings. 



3rd. We have, therefore, when the chain of our logic has 

 given the opportunity, endeavoured to point out that all 

 creation was produced by the withdrawal from creation 

 of two of the personages and attributes of God's Trinity, 

 namely, God the Mother and God the Soul, and that 

 the attributes of the different personages are gradually 

 returned. And we find that all the attributes of God 

 will never be wholly present, for a part or at least some 

 of His attributes are withdrawn, namely, first the 

 Spirit of Invisibility ; second the power of the Will of 

 God is replaced by the will of Man ; third the power of 

 memory is withdrawn as imagination takes the place 

 of thought to permit of civilisation, as reason supplants 



