THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 

 choice for good or evil, selected, or as a means to further and 

 bring about the ultimate destruction of the souls of those whom 

 God in his wisdom sees would fail to accomplish the particular 

 virtues he requires as our particular and individual contribu- 

 tions towards the benefit of the community, were it not for 

 the lessons these defects teach us to overcome. 



Men may be permitted to fall into sins of impurity (not 

 immorality, see distinction hereafter placed on the two) to 

 prevent his becoming so proud of his mental or physical 

 achievements that he would by his arrogance turn from him 

 the assistance of his fellow-men, and as we are parts of a 

 component whole, as creation is only a part of the infinity, 

 so our first duty is to help each other to overcome necessary 

 evils of the past as evolution advances. Therefore God de- 

 cides our lives by their usefulness to others, not by the 

 benefits they confer upon ourselves, and our actions are only 

 part of a series of results destined to fulfil their useful place 

 in a perfect scheme of evolution of which we are but so many 

 pawns or pieces to be moved forward, or along the road of 

 virtue, or backwards along the path of crime, and thus to 

 produce more perfect virtues, or to be moved downwards in- 

 stead of upwards in the social scale until removed off the 

 chessboard of creation by our final extinction in the onward 

 march of human progression in which for a time we are per- 

 mitted to remain despite our sins, as a means of punishment 

 for wrong-doing or as a danger signal for others to prevent 

 them doing wrong. In Chapter XI. I will point out the three 

 classes of mind which produce Thought, Wisdom and Love. 



This makes the virtues of one class the failures of 

 another class of person. Hence without sin the world would 

 only deteriorate instead of advancing. Please do not confuse 

 sin which is failure or folly with crime which is abuse or 

 misuse of our opportunities for advancement. In the same 

 way if there was no such thing as sickness we would have 

 nothing to stay us from overwork and exhaustion, or from 

 destroying our health by abuse. The punishment God will 

 inflict on our sins, therefore, is not according to their crimi- 

 nality as decided by the laws of religion, state or society, but 

 according to how far they abet or retard the performance of 

 the virtues we are individually capable of, and the exercise 



