122 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



evolution, subject to the laws of nature, not by miracles 

 of redemption, till, by evolving wisdom enough to understand 

 the truths of revelation, they can become a religion unto them- 

 selves by learning to use, not abuse God's earth, which they 

 are destined in the future to control when they have evolved a 

 soul to which crime is repulsive, and knowledge of medical 

 science shall be sufficient, not to eradicate disease, but to pre- 

 vent it and so prolong life into immortality. 



When about two hundred thousand years ago, by evolving 

 Comprehension in the mind of mankind, woman made possible 

 the conquest of the savage will of man by creating in his breast 

 a love for her, stronger than a mere animal nature could 

 evolve, the Spirit of God the Mother is brought into the world 

 in order to overcome the energy of the power of God the Father 

 as materialised in the stubborn will of man, and teach him to 

 see the value of a belief in a heaven which he could feel and 

 believe, but which he in his blind faith unenlightened by the 

 Soul of Wisdom was still unable to understand and was still 

 too ignorant to imagine. 



By the laws that govern Evolution, the most probable solu- 

 tion is that the soul of man is one continuous rebirth of its 

 unbroken existence in separate physical bodies, which are but 

 as worn-out suits of clothes which the mind and soul discard 

 as they get out of fashion in the forward march of Evolution. 

 I feel certain that in an indistinct manner all the truths of 

 revelation are and have been active forces in the evolution of 

 the mind of man, dim and indistinct like a light shining 

 through a fog, but none the less present. And that as man 

 first evolves imagination, these become the groundwork of the 

 early religions and superstitions of creation, which gave rise 

 to the early ages of superstitions, beliefs in spirits, or Gods 

 fairies and sprites, who held and ruled or controlled the lives 

 of mankind. We see in these early beliefs the infantile mind 

 of the past trying to comprehend the properties of the spirit 

 of Fate, by which God rules Creation, just as a child peoples 

 its world with fanciful imaginations of joys and pleasures and 

 hopes destined never to be realised. Then boyhood, rising 

 above imagination, seeks to emulate the strife of manhood in 

 his ambition to excel in sports and pleasures, and so evolves 

 the interests and ambitions that are to produce the energy and 

 competency of manhood. So in the past the dormant revelation 



