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Heaven the Soul of Love, the spirit of which she could by 

 nature transmit only to her female offspring until God, by the 

 miracle of redemption, enables her to transmit the qualities of 

 Love, Sympathy and Charity and Invention to her grandsons 

 as well as to her sons and grand-daughters, otherwise she 

 could by Nature only transmit these qualities to her sons, 

 daughters and grand-daughters, not to her grandsons, and 

 from that time Love and Religion become hereditary and pos- 

 sible to man as well as to woman ; but the characteristics of 

 body are not immortal, so are not affected by the miracle of 

 redemption, which was to give man a soul of mental, not 

 bodily or physical powers. Thus it was woman* s love that 

 ascended to Heaven and, by converting Imagination into Com- 

 prehension, enabled him to believe in the revelations of God 

 and to attain habits of love of right, virtue and truth, which 

 were in the future to conquer his selfishness, cruelty and 

 deceit, and enable him to become civilised and evolve govern- 

 ments, religions and commerce amongst such nations as are 

 descended from those thrice-redeemed Aryan races. So we 

 find that mankind from this time onward is to be no longer 

 governed by power alone, but is to be subject to the soul of 

 love, which is to raise woman almost above punishment. 



This is not a new teaching, but one of the revelations 

 of the past which has caused man to love and respect woman. 

 But I wish you to remember this when I further show that 

 woman's influence on heredity is physical not mental. Hence 

 in the case only of abuse of fidelity and immorality does God 

 inflict the punishment of the Mother's sins on the child, but 

 in the father all want of energy, folly, extravagance or in- 

 justice, unless the quality happens to be a virtue of the Epoch, 

 is visited on his children. But although woman's love has 

 raised mankind above the rest of creation by giving birth to 

 his soul by the means of redemption, it does not alter the 

 qualities of the physical development, for although religion 

 had brought about the incarnation of the soul, it is only since 

 the birth of understanding, about one hundred years ago, that 

 the soul of wisdom has begun to influence the mind of man, 

 and, just as the soul of woman has produced love and religion, 

 so the soul of man will, in like manner, have to evolve wisdom 

 and immortality in years to come. But in the future mankind 

 must evolve their own souls of wisdom in the natural course of 



