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fifty thousand years B.C. ; and the Age of Adam as the previous 

 period of somewhere between one or two hundred thousand years 

 that make up the three hundred thousand years which we may 

 roughly assume as an approximate estimate of the period that 

 we commonly describe as the Glacial Period, and includes the 

 three ages which are spoken of in Geology as the Stick Age, 

 represented by Adam; the Stone Age, represented by Cain 

 and Abel ; and the Metal Age represented by Christianity. 



During the second of these periods, the Age of Cain 

 and Abel, the evolution of Imagination, therein becoming in- 

 carnate in the mind of man, must have culminated in some 

 prehistoric redeemer as the visible personification of the in- 

 visible birth of Imagination, and miraculous powers of here- 

 ditary transmission of a higher form of love than that of 

 animal affection. In the last of these prehistoric periods, 

 up to the time of Noah, who marks the end of the Glacial 

 Period, the age of Cain and Abel attained a like personification 

 in the Buddha of the Easterns, who appears to be synonymous 

 with the Seth and Enos of our biblical traditions, and whose 

 birth indicated the dawn in the mind of man of the spirit of 

 Comprehension, which enables man to comprehend that the 

 rewards of nature were bestowed upon those who could learn 

 to realise that right was might, not might right, and which 

 takes its concrete form by the children of Abel placing 

 Honour, Justice and Mercy, and the respect to those in power 

 and authority on a higher level in their mental evolution than 

 the greed, cunning and avaricious deceit that the superstitions 

 of Eastern idolatry had made the underlying principles of the 

 Mongolian children of Cain. This marks the miraculous gift 

 of the transmission of Comprehension in part to the mind of 

 man as well as of woman. Lastly, Christ and Christianity 

 mark the third of such miracles, wherein the last of the gifts 

 of God the Mother to the children of God the Father and God 

 the Soul is to be made to the human race, thereby to extend 

 to future generations of men in whom the higher evolutions 

 of soul have been made possible by the intermingling of 

 northern and southern civilisations by granting to them In- 

 vention, and so complete the trinity of such redemptions with 

 the completion or manhood of comprehension as a practical 

 evolution of the human soul. 



Having now shown how Comprehension has come into 



