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qualities of God the Mother, love, life and body, so long as the 

 Spirit of God gives it power to live. For the logical deduction 

 from evolution is that the death of the body of man is not the 

 death of his soul, but is only the transition of his soul to the 

 minds and the souls of his children in the bodies of their 

 mothers. 



I may here point out that having got this far, we may well 

 ask " What is this evolution of the soul, and how is it brought 

 about ?" Now, we must bear in mind that the male only 

 reproduces Soul, Thought and Mind and the energy of vitality 

 in his future offspring, while the female will produce the body, 

 health and strength of the child. The father, therefore, will 

 be the direct cause of the reproduction in his children of 

 Thought, Mind and Soul, which are to be the means by which 

 mankind is to conquer and govern nature. But woman, to 

 whose charge has been given the building up and formation of 

 the physical frame, and the completion of the material body 

 capable of supporting a human soul, is not to transmit the 

 male qualities of mind and soul, but to lay the wires, as it 

 were, for the spiritual, electrical currents of religion, love, life 

 and sympathy, which were to soften and refine the soul of 

 mankind by the ultimate conquest of his cruelty by the spirit 

 of love. This is shown in some of the Eastern Legends, and 

 beautifully depicted by Moore in his poem, " The Fallen 

 Angels," in which is summarised the belief of the Three 

 Persons in One God. Hence woman's duty is perhaps higher 

 even than man's, for to her has been confided the redemption 

 of mankind, and if it had not been for the influence of her love 

 and early teachings and patient devotion to her young, by 

 which she has prepared the way for religion, it is doubtful if 

 man could have evolved a soul at all, and the evolution of 

 mind would have come to a standstill, as it has in savage races. 



For it was the mother's love that gave to man- 

 kind the power to rise from earth to heaven, for, as 

 Moore's poem points out, the Spirit of Light could give to 

 man only Thought and Imagination, which could only create a 

 discontent with earth and its trials and troubles, and a desire 

 to abandon the strife and quit it for an imaginary existence in 

 some brighter planet or star where strife and labour would be 

 less arduous. No sooner, however, does the Spirit ot Love 

 enter through woman's acts of redemption in the form of 



