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religion, government and science. As in answer to woman's 

 prayer God sent the first of the three redeemers, or some such 

 operation of divine grace to evolve Comprehension out of 

 Imagination, the first attribute of the soul of man as a reward 

 for woman's patient sufferings that she had so nobly borne 

 under such circumstances of grief and trial during man's stub- 

 born fight for physical supremacy over the perfect devil his 

 animal existence had created, and out of which was to be 

 evolved his mind and soul, by the blessings of divine enlighten- 

 ment that was to make the new departure or alteration in his 

 animal mind to that of a human mind, which, as will be shown 

 in Chapter V., Book II., has so puzzled the most enlightened 

 students of evolution to account for, and we will then demon- 

 strate how the hypothesis we are trying to prove supplies the 

 connecting links in the development of mind and soul. 



But the subject of this chapter is rather to define the relative 

 position of the three separate classes of mind which has to 

 decide the fitness of each one of us to the particular duties we 

 have to perform to assist each other to bring about the correct 

 course of evolution in the future. Before we enter into the 

 task of showing how, as a whole, these changes came to be 

 evolved, it is impossible for me to conceive that the attributes 

 of God the Father, which carry with them the whole truths 

 of revelation, were ever absent from creation. They 

 lay dormant perhaps awaiting the development of the mind of 

 man, but they were not dead ; they are and have been only 

 sleeping till, in the coming Epoch of Charity, the threshold 

 of which we have just reached in the forward march of evolu- 

 tion, should open up the gifts of the wisdom of understanding 

 to our minds. Dormant they may have been through the 

 absence of divine Love and Wisdom, but none the less pre- 

 sent, awaiting the evolutions of creation and the passage of 

 time to make them manifest. So on the seventh, eighth, and 

 ninth days of creation, we will in the course of our treatise 

 show that they are evolved in the following order first Ima- 

 gination, second Comprehension, and third Understanding, 

 which are the three classes of human minds I am now trying 

 to define. Now I wish you to understand that Comprehension 

 is the result, as it were, of the triple forces of Love, Thought 

 and Imagination, in the same way as Imagination was of 

 Life, Love and Thought, but Imagination is evolved on natural 



