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not make wisdom, but often only tends to increase the field of 

 action for vice, extravagance and folly. 



Now, the place that Imagination has to fill in evolution and 

 practice is, as I have tried to demonstrate, to evolve a mind 

 capable not only of thinking but of conceiving and acquiring 

 knowledge to be used by more highly evolved minds of Com- 

 prehension throughout the Epoch of Hope, to create study, 

 religion, government, and to pave the way for Understanding, 

 Science and Use by sowing in man's mind the seed of these 

 qualities which are to grow as evolution advances. Now, this 

 mind of Imagination is the mind that represents the proper- 

 ties of Action, Will and Knowledge, but not judgment or rea- 

 son, and corresponds to the physical forces of light, and is the 

 mind which enables man to think and conceive, but not to 

 comprehend or understand. Hence it carries us to all sorts 

 of ideas and conceptions, builds up all sorts of theories without 

 regard to right or wrong and without waiting to weigh or 

 consider their logic or reason. It is the mind that beautifies 

 all our thoughts and actions in just the same way that light 

 gives colour to all the surroundings of nature. It is therefore 

 the mind of the poet and artist and of the literary genius, and 

 in conjunction with some of the attributes of the comprehen- 

 sive mind, lays the foundation-stone of agriculture, manufac- 

 ture and invention. But just the same as nature in evolution 

 ever tends to combine two of the Epoch of the Trinity with a 

 portion of the third, so in the evolution of our minds God 

 generally combines the attributes of two classes of mind with 

 a seasoning of the third, but very seldom combines any large 

 portion of the attributes of the three. 



In deciding to which class of mind a man's brain 

 belongs, we can only define its position according to which 

 class has the preponderating influence over his actions. The 

 trinity of this class of mind is Thought, Knowledge and Con- 

 ception. Animals are only possessed of two of these attributes, 

 viz., Thought and Knowledge and action, which, with the 

 power of motion, makes the trinity of Instinct as a separate 

 resultant of God's Trinity as compared with the mind of man. 

 So not being possessed of Imagination and Conception, which 

 are the fourth attributes of the Trinity of God the Father and 

 God the Mother (see line No. 4, Table I.), animals can 

 neither imagine, comprehend nor understand, and cannot 



