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minds of Comprehension and Understanding to cultivate, so 

 the mind of Comprehension is ever seeking through the realms 

 of revelation, knowledge, and experience and mathematics for 

 means of invention to lay at the feet of the mind of Under- 

 standing to be turned to practical use, comfort or pleasure as 

 scientific proof matures and ripens. Also the mind of Com- 

 prehension is the mind that is most inclined to analyse all 

 the gems of knowledge that the mind of imagination and 

 understanding may offer for its consideration, but it is a mind 

 averse to prolonged argument or minute detail, always want- 

 ing to rush ahead and arrive at a practical result, leaving to 

 other minds the labours of proof. Being gifted with the 

 soul's eye of comparison, it weighs, observes and considers the 

 right and the wrong of nature and life, and wisdom and 

 understanding. Just as Imagination is the witness, so Com- 

 prehension is the Jury, and Science and Understanding is the 

 Advocate in the Court of Wisdom, where Use sits as Judge. 



With this mind, if combined in small quantities with 

 the quality of Imagination in preponderance, it produces 

 artisans, artists, poets, authors, etcetera; but should compre- 

 hension predominate in this combination, the mind becomes a 

 mind of observation, as in the case of farmers, agriculturists 

 and soldiers. If combined with Understanding, it produces 

 what we term a logical and mathematical mind. These results 

 vary in exact proportion as to whether the mind is influenced 

 by the attributes of the Imaginative mind of knowledge, or by 

 the attributes of the more precise mind of Understanding or 

 wisdom, for in man it will be a combination of itself and one 

 or other of these two minds of male gender, but not of both, 

 Comprehension being a female mind. In the same way if the 

 imaginative mind be possessed of a portion of the female mind 

 of Comprehension, it is but little influenced by the other male 

 mind of wisdom ; for you must keep in your mind's eye that 

 the distinction of gender in God's Trinity passes in likeness 

 and influence throughout all creation and leaves the same dis- 

 tinction of gender on all God's works, so that the mind can 

 be no exception to this rule. 



In the same way, when the mind of Comprehension is com- 

 bined with the mind of Understanding, it will hold no parley 

 with the other male mind of Imagination and scoffs at its 

 want of exactness in knowledge as out of court, by branding 



