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therefore possess a soul of wisdom, so they have thought with- 

 out imagination, affection without love, knowledge without 

 understanding. 



II. The Comprehensive Mind. 



This is the second order of mind, and is pre-eminently the 

 mind of woman. But there are two combinations of this mind, 

 or what we may more correctly term two forms of marriages 

 of this mind with the two male minds, Imagination and Un- 

 derstanding, which may now both be possessed by men, while 

 the mind of Comprehension can only be possessed in part by 

 him. This mind is the personification of the divine attributes 

 of God the Mother, and bestows on the mind of man all that, 

 like woman, is lovely and beautiful in his soul, namely Exist- 

 ence, Love, Life, Comprehension, Invention, Comfort and 

 Pleasure. It is the mind of Logic, Truth and Belief, and is 

 the spirit of Love, Conception and Observation. Those pos- 

 sessed of it are truthful, honest and extremely affectionate, 

 and are more desirous to obtain proficiency, truth and high 

 ideals than to aim at the attainment of wealth or knowledge 

 or selfish gain. They make the men with the highest ambi- 

 tions and the greatest integrity ; they seek for success rather 

 than for reward, for power rather than for wealth, are ambi- 

 tious above selfishness, and grieve more over failure than loss. 



They are the class of men who most often strive to 

 turn the mistakes of the past to advantage in the future by 

 using past knowledge to perfect future use, although they do 

 less to acquire knowledge than those possessed of a mind of 

 understanding; nevertheless, they are the most progressive 

 ^of men, for if they are of a less studious nature than those 

 possessed of a mind of Understanding, they are possessed of 

 the mind of the greatest practical observation and of the 

 greatest mental energy, so are able to do more with half the 

 amount of knowledge. They are the most inclined to alter 

 their opinions when reasonable data are advanced for the 

 change, yet are the most tenacious of their principles. 



Now, just as the mind of Imagination was the wings of 

 Thought, ever seeking to find fresh realms of knowledge in 

 which to roam in search of new ideas of beauty and thought, 

 to become the seed of knowledge, science and wisdom for the 



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