102 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



some still extant, others extinct or so imperfectly reproduced 

 as to be indistinguishable. The mind of Man is evolved in a 

 like manner, varying in each case as the mental organisation 

 of his mind is a reduplication of some or other of the qualities 

 that predominated in his previous existences, or in the minds 

 of his ancestors, just as his body was a reproduction of its 

 previous animal existences, but with the differences that his 

 soul is a perfect likeness of his Creator, and of the Trinity of 

 God, while his body is only an imperfect one. Thus the par- 

 ticular previous animal existences (and although not indicated 

 in any visible form), the previous plant life may and most 

 likely has had its influences in deciding the species of animals 

 produced. So it is quite reasonable to conclude that in the 

 formation and evolution of the mind of man each recreation 

 is only a reproduction of the human minds that preceded it, 

 just as the human mind is only a reproduction of the animal 

 mind and of the animal emotions that preceded it, out of 

 which (as will be demonstrated in another chapter) are evolved 

 by the action of God's Trinity, the emotions of the human 

 mind and the soul of man as the other personalities of the 

 Trinity re-enter into the creation of man's soul. 



Lest I may fatigue the unscientific reader I shall try to 

 confine this treatise, as its title implies, to merely peeping 

 through the partly open door of evolution, for he is the reader 

 for whose benefit I am chiefly catering. So the scientist must 

 forgive me if I am compelled to draw on the imagination at 

 times to fill up the gaps in evolution so as to connect my logical 

 sequence ; and the reader who is over-exacting in demanding 

 absolute proof for every statement must remember that I am 

 trying to write this treatise in a simple, unscientific manner 

 solely to demonstrate my hypothesis, not as a scientific work. 



Thus showing that man in his turn became jelly fish, worm, 

 lizard, fish and animals of various forms till he arrived at the 

 stage of an ape that was probably somewhere between the 

 Gibbon Ape and the Chimpanzee, which ape outstripped all 

 others by becoming a meat-eating ape, a cannibal and a mur- 

 derer, until he ultimately arrived at his present perfect shape 

 as man, while other kinds of worms, fishes, animals and 

 reptiles combining in different manners evolved other varieties 

 of animal species. It must not be concluded, therefore, that 

 any other animal except some form of ape could ever evolve 



