ioo THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



on evolution and embryology. It is not my intention to make 

 this treatise a work of proof or science, but merely to draw 

 attention to facts that go to illustrate my hypothesis. So by a 

 further formation of cells which are destined to form the new 

 germ, and out of the seeds of which are to grow the stems and 

 branches of plants and trees of vegetable life, whose seeds are 

 to reproduce in the future the exact reproduction of the original 

 plant, its limbs and boughs. Then follows the creation of 

 similar cells and germs destined to form small jelly fishes, 

 who by springing into life from plant life, severed themselves 

 from plant life and floated about the water to be slowly evolved 

 into fishes. One striking instance of this earliest creation of 

 protozoa or semi-animal existence which was possessed of the 

 lowest forms of animal development yet possessed also of the 

 most extreme vitality, is a small jelly fish made up of a series 

 of segments; this curious little protozoon breaks up into a 

 series of segments, and the divided portions swim about quite 

 contentedly enjoying separate lives, till meeting another like 

 segment they reunite together and form one instead of two or 

 three lives. Another form of protozoon grows in the form of a 

 plant with cup-like flowers which break off and form the 

 female living animal, but before this happens the flower-like 

 cup produces a small pistil which becomes a worm, which is 

 the male. The two float about the waters till meeting they 

 unite and breed a new form of animal life. So was animal 

 life evolved out of plant life. 



These and such like early forms or germs of life went on 

 multiplying till they filled the sea with myriads of similar 

 seaweed -born animals destined to form jelly fishes, and subse- 

 quently to be transformed into fishes. Their form, shape and 

 future existence were decided by the class of plant they evolved 

 from or the food upon which they might subsist. These pro- 

 tozoa or early forms of animal existence gradually further 

 evolve until they produce the more perfect forms of fishes, 

 reptiles, birds, animals and ultimately Man. Then the Spirit 

 of God the Mother, the Spirit of Love, entering still further 

 into the production of creation, animal mind begins to be 

 developed. After this commences the first dawn of soul when 

 Man evolves the powers of conception and imagination, and 

 receives the first attribute of God the Soul that enters into 

 finite creation. 



