4 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



and management, love in return for charity, honour as the 

 reward of justice, a soul rich in wisdom and discretion in place 

 of animal instinct, or immortality in place of death, and as 

 has already been demonstrated in Book I., must have remained 

 for ever an animal and content without the means of advance- 

 ment ; for further advancement has been denied to the animals 

 who have failed to evolve the art of sinning by attaining to the 

 powers of self-will, self-control and charity. 



The fruits of the earth have become less prolific, and now 

 instead of growing in rank profusion to create rapid develop- 

 ment which in its superabundance produced indolence and 

 consequently the extinction of the unfit of the animal creation, 

 to make place for further hardships of cold, starvation, work 

 and war which are required to harden and strengthen man's 

 body so as to render it fit to stand the wear and tear of the 

 mind upon the body and so prepare man for the reception of 

 Religion, Knowledge, Comprehension and Understanding, 

 after which he will receive a soul instead of a mind, which last 

 evolution commenced about 1800 A.D. But evolution is a force 

 that does not advance in a direct course, but following the law 

 of the return of the attributes of Trinity to Creation, by which 

 forces God Almighty governs it, it advances each stage first 

 three steps forward and then destroys what it has done, re- 

 traces its path two steps backwards and advances the next 

 force of nature or attribute of the personality of God's Trinity 

 a step forward and again destroys what it has evolved, and 

 then advances the other force or attribute of nature forward 

 and then returns to the third column of the soul and com- 

 pletes the third stage. Then again advancing the next power of 

 Spirit further along the course as the separate personalities 

 of God's Trinity in turn participate in creation, so that at 

 every period there are three evolutions moving forward, each 

 contending for supremacy and destroying each other to produce 

 the next evolution in like order. Thus Revelation becomes 

 obscured by superstition to create imagination, until it is prac- 

 tically lost in the maze of witchcraft and necromancy which 

 are to give birth to Governments and Religions, then Divine 

 Inspiration comes to the assistance of Revelation and pulls it 

 out of the mire of sorcery, and it in its turn is again lost in 

 the mists of idolatry. Government then supplants Religion 

 to enable it to create Study and Science. When Government 



