i8 2 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



THE THREE CLASSES OF HUMAN MIND. 



/. The Imaginative Mind, the trinity of which is To Think, 

 To Conceive, and To Imagine. 



This class of mind is the rudimentary mind of man as com- 

 pared with the instinctive mind of animals. It is the mental 

 bird, the child of thought, action and knowledge, but not the 

 mind of wisdom. The butterfly of Thought, the eagle of Soul, 

 surpassing in its rapid flight the rays of sunlight and leaving 

 them far behind. It soars from earth to heaven regardless 

 of its course, too free of thought to allow itself to be fettered 

 by exactness of detail or accuracy of statement. It is the 

 mind of beauty, art and prayer, passing rapidly from thought 

 to thought, ever bee-like, sipping the sweet of knowledge, 

 building castles in the air, sowing seeds of imagination, for the 

 other two classes of mind, comprehension and understanding to 

 investigate. It is the duty of the mind of comprehension to 

 grow and cultivate the roots of Invention, Consideration and 

 Experiment, and Logic, so that knowledge may be filtered 

 through the stem of experiment, after which it must be tried 

 by the mind of understanding, which puts it to use, and 

 weighed by the mind of comprehension in the scales of logic 

 and truth, and if not then found wanting, knowledge, the 

 result of the mind of imagination, will be passed on to be 

 corrected by the labours of the minds of Comprehension and 

 Understanding, the latter of which must supply the wisdom 

 of scientific knowledge, by which truth is to be tried and 

 proved to the satisfaction of the mind of Comprehension 

 before it will be fit to use to form the branches and leaves of 

 the tree of human wisdom and judgment, subsequently to be 

 converted into the flowers of justice, capital, wealth, and so 

 form the future seeds of advancement and improvement, which 

 are ultimately to evolve human perfection, happiness and 

 immortality. 



Thus we find that each class of mind and men have to com- 

 bine together to work out the perfection of the stages of Use, 

 Peace, Comfort, and Content that are to be the next evolutions 

 of future creation that are to fit mankind for the rewards of 

 the last three days of creation, the days of Joy, Pleasure and 

 Happiness, that are to make this earth a fit abode for im- 



