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existence to be both the life and soul of religion, and is the 

 finite representative of the second attribute of the soul of the 

 second person of the Trinity of God in the soul of mankind, 

 and is the soul of belief and of love and of woman, which 

 became complete at the birth of Christ, in the same way that 

 the mind of Imagination was conceived in the age of Cain and 

 Abel and extended to that of Seth and Buddha. Imagination 

 is one of the minds of man, not of mankind, because it ap- 

 pears, if all is to be in order and sequence, that the souls of 

 men are the minds of Imagination and thought, and the minds 

 of Understanding or Wisdom, not the minds of Comprehension, 

 which is, from the standpoint of heredity, fundamentally the 

 mind of woman ; and it appears to me that it was to work the 

 miracles of redemption by enabling man, through the birth 

 of three heaven -born men, to be able to assimilate some of the 

 qualities of the mind of woman that is the true reason why 

 God worked these miracles of redemption, so as to bring about 

 the combination of the three classes of mind. Now, Imagina- 

 tion is the soul of Action, Thought and Knowledge, and let 

 me here point out to you that this soul of Imagination is the 

 soul of the lowest quality of the three classes of mind in man, 

 the mind that can think and perform but cannot reason. 



The mind of Comprehension is the second class of 

 mind that believes, obeys and perceives, but is averse to very 

 technical knowledge, thought or reason, and the mind of 

 Understanding is the mind that is slow to think or believe 

 and is reluctant to accept knowledge without strong proof and 

 substantiation of the theories and arguments adduced by the 

 two creative minds of Imagination and Comprehension. 

 Hence we find that minds of Imagination are the minds that 

 have the most brilliant power of conception and decoration, 

 and comprise the masses of the workers and geniuses of man- 

 kind ; but are impractical and incapable of self-control, prone to 

 great flights of Imagination, but lacking the self-control that 

 is necessary for direction though capable of infinite attention 

 to detail, but are impulsive and spasmodic in their energy, and 

 are the minds of the masses of the people and of artists, 

 authors, poets and orators, and the mind of the artisan or 

 mechanical labourer. This is the reason why when the power 

 of government gets into the hands of the people, legislation 

 which is more theoretical than practical is the order of the 



