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lines, while Comprehension is a supernatural evolution ; but 

 Understanding, like Imagination, is a natural evolution on the 

 part of man, that will require no act of redemption to bring 

 about its evolution. Its trinity will be Knowledge, Comprehen- 

 sion and Wisdom. 



You will then be able to comprehend more clearly how the 

 three classes of mind differ from each other and how they have 

 been separately evolved when you follow the course of evolu- 

 tion in Book II., and how the evolution of the mind of Imagi- 

 nation will be the result of the predominant forces until nearly 

 the middle of the Epoch of Hope. 



Subsequently the spirit of Love and Comprehension pre- 

 dominates then as man evolves Understanding, which is the 

 spirit of Wisdom ; divine power will be slowly replaced by the 

 control of human will, as implicit obedience is replaced by 

 Religion, Love and Life in the Epoch of Hope, with the result 

 of the evolution of Wisdom. But at first imaginative know- 

 ledge is the first that is brought into action, as the gradual 

 growth of the mind of man takes the place of animal thought, 

 until Comprehension shall be sufficiently influenced by the 

 soul of Wisdom, as the latter slowly brings human intelligence 

 to perfection during the age of charity, which is to complete the 

 development of Understanding. But remember that of all the 

 attributes of the mind, knowledge is the most inclined to err, 

 so that the difficulty with the imaginative mind is to keep it 

 in check, which is the duty of those who are possessed of a 

 comprehensive or logical mind and of a mind of understanding, 

 the latter being the mind' of science. We are not all possessed 

 of minds of the same qualities, class, calibre, or capability, 

 so that each of us, according to the predominant qualities of 

 the class of mind we are possessed of, have to act as an anti- 

 dote to the minds of others and to check the mistakes which 

 others make and also to increase the usefulness of the know- 

 ledge that they each acquire, so that each class of mind may 

 be able to assist the other to do or use what they lack the 

 talent to perform. 



Thus the mind of Wisdom or Understanding, influenced 

 by the mind of comprehension, is able to check the faults 

 made by the minds of Imagination by their experience, obser- 

 vation and truth and acquisition of facts, without which check 

 its knowledge is of little value or use. For knowledge does 



