CHAPTER XI 



THE THREE CLASSES OF MIND 



IN its right place we shall have to point out how these three 

 portions of Imagination, Comprehension and Understanding 

 that form the trinity of the human soul have been evolved on 

 the seventh, eighth and ninth days of Creation, which repre- 

 sent the period referred to in Genesis as the creation of 

 human mind as apart from animal instinct. They also mark 

 the early dawn of civilisation, and, what is of most importance 

 to our hypothesis, the return to creation, for the first time 

 in the course of evolution, of the three personalities of God's 

 Trinity, as up to this stage only the attributes of God the 

 Father and God the Mother, or those of two of the personalities 

 that have been withdrawn to admit of creation, have taken 

 part therein. But now the spirit of God the Soul is being 

 returned to creation to permit man to be able to evolve mind, 

 the primitive evolution of the soul, that final perfection of him- 

 self that is to make him worthy of immortality. 



In this chapter, however, I especially bring these facts under 

 the notice of my reader, not to explain the mind of man in its 

 relation to creation, but to make clear to him, from the abstract 

 point of view, the three different grades of his mind or soul 

 that correspond with the three personalities of God's Trinity, 

 so that he may comprehend that just as mankind fs divided 

 into social groups of states, societies and religions, so also his 

 soul is divided into three classes IMAGINATION, COM- 

 PREHENSION and UNDERSTANDING. These three 

 qualities constitute the Human Soul, just as infinite spirit, 

 existence and soul make God, and although conceived in the 

 womb of evolution at the stages or ages of the Epoch of Hope, 

 must not be considered as being then created or born into 

 existence, but each takes time to evolve, just as our body is 

 evolved in nine months, our mind in about twenty-seven 

 months ; and nine times as long, or about twenty years is re- 



