CHAPTER II 



THE EPOCH OF FAITH I THE COURSE OF EVOLUTION 



BEFORE we follow the course of evolution let us first consider 

 what are the trinities we have to deal with, and how we are 

 to compare our Hypothesis and its tables with the course of 

 evolution. The Trinity of God is : 



First God the Father the Spirit is male ; second God the 

 Mother is female ; third God the Soul is male, and the whole 

 is an invisible Trinity, the spirit of invisible Power, Existence 

 and Soul. See Table I., line one. 



The next consideration is the trinity of creation which is 

 divided as follows. A Trinity of Epochs : 



First Faith ; second Hope ; third Charity. Each epoch 

 or week is divided again into seven days. Faith is the epoch 

 of belief, and the seven days into which it is divided are : (i) 

 Gaseous Existence, (2) Fluid Existence, (3) Matter, (4) Plant 

 Life, (5) Animal Existence, (6) Creation of motive life and sex, 

 fishes, etc. ; animals and conception of mind, (7) Man, 

 and conception of Love. This is the Trinity of Faith, because 

 during this period creation is governed by the powers of the 

 spirit of God the Father which is the spirit of motion or action, 

 destruction, Reconstruction and Creation, and which rules the 

 world until in the Epoch of Hope, when love starts to rule the 

 world by the Spirit of God the Mother (I think it well to use 

 this term as indicating more the feminine gender of God, 

 rather than the term God the Son). Now it must be remem- 

 bered that the qualities of God the Father are born, from the 

 earliest creation, to transmit revelation to man, and that all 

 qualities of the male personalities of God being male are trans- 

 mitted through man, not woman ; and God the Mother whose 

 qualities are female are transmitted through woman from 

 mother to daughter, son or grand-daughter, not from Father 

 to son or grandson ; and the properties of God the Soul (this 

 word is used in preference to God the Holy Ghost) are also 



