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than any existing form of religion, but the remainder would 

 not be so good as they are had they not religion to help them. 

 Thus in past ages kings, priests, apostles and prophets have 

 with the assistance of God's inspiration invented and created 

 religions to suit the stage of evolution in which they lived, 

 and the characteristic most suited to the manners and cus- 

 toms of the nationalities and communities in which they 

 laboured to establish them and to retain them so far as to 

 control the people without resource to brute force. Further 

 than this God would not permit religion to advance till man's 

 mind was fit to receive it, lest its teaching should interfere 

 with the pre-ordained order and precedence of His scheme of 

 Evolution. So you see, dear reader, what a mighty truth the 

 Buddhist teacher of ten thousand years ago had evolved when 

 he taught the doctrine of Fatality, and that the higher orders 

 of revelation should not be permitted to the knowledge of the 

 masses but only to the most highly-enlightened expounder of 

 divine laws. The careful reader of the New Testament will 

 be struck by the manner in which Christ shelved and gave 

 equivocal answers to all the requests on the part of the apostles 

 when they sought to inquire into future events which the state 

 of the human mind of two thousand years ago was not then 

 sufficiently evolved to receive. 



But I am more convinced, and the more I study the further 

 I am convinced, that from the earliest days of creation, long 

 before the dawn of life, all and every revelation, whether 

 yet known or yet to be discovered by mankind, with the 

 assistance of the enlightenment df God and His Trinity, either 

 has been or is yet dormant in every part and particle of crea- 

 tion, . even to the smallest grain of sand, and is awaiting 

 patiently the evolution and enlightenment of the soul of man, 

 assisted by scientific elucidation of religious teaching,, to be 

 turned to some use and effect in the grand scheme of THE 

 EVOLUTION OF CREATION, MIND AND SOUL. But 

 God has left to mankind the evolution and creation of all and 

 every form of religion, only condescending to enlighten and 

 inspire its teachers to such an extent as under the infantile 

 conditions of their minds He from time to time deemed them 

 capable of comprehending a portion of the mighty problems 

 of His Infinite Wisdom. And when you realise, as you will 

 if you study the hypothesis that the soul of mankind is only 



