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The third class of mind is the outcome of the return to 

 creation of the attribute of God the Holy Ghost, and is the 

 mind of Understanding and the soul of Human Wisdom, 

 which, as it becomes evolved, is ultimately to fit man to rule 

 creation. It will take much longer to evolve than the other 

 two classes of mind, and is only yet in its infancy in the 

 march of evolution, for although conceived about eighty thou- 

 sand years before Christ, its birth is A.D. 1800. It holds the 

 same place in the soul of man as scientific knowledge does to 

 unscientific knowledge in his mind. It is, like imagination, 

 a male order of mind. The two male orders of mind are of 

 male descent, whereas the mind of comprehension is of female 

 descent, subject to such alteration in the laws of descent as 

 have been made possible by the mysteries of the redemption 

 of mankind. These are referred to elsewhere. All mankind 

 is made up of a combination of two of these three classes of 

 mind, and they decide our fitness for certain occupations, or the 

 efficiency we are able to attain, our likes, dislikes, talents, 

 genius, social positions, tendencies to do good or evil. 



These are all dependent on the combination or propor- 

 tional influences of these three classes of mind. But, as is 

 hereafter illustrated, the efficiency of our minds in these 

 respects may be subject to variation in individual instances 

 by environments, such as wealth or poverty, health or de- 

 bility, which may be sent as rewards or punishments for the 

 past use we make of such talents, or as a means to stir us to 

 some more perfect use of our capabilities in any one particular 

 individual lifetime. But such individual instances do not 

 materially affect the question we now have under considera- 

 tion. The measure of our success or failure in the performance 

 of the duties required of us by our state of life will be decided 

 in the main by the class of mind we are born with, and the 

 value of our talents and capabilities to the communities, not 

 by the trouble or labour they entail upon us, but by the value 

 that the majority of our fellow-men place upon them, and the 

 reward or punishment that God may see fit to grant or deny 

 us and our children in accordance with our acts and those of 

 our parents. I wall now review these three classes of mind 

 in the order and separate distinctions of their general charac- 

 teristics, which form the subject of this chapter. 



