8 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



viction of its truth that God created the world by withdrawing 

 the powers of God the Mother and God the Holy Ghost from 

 the portion of His Infinity that were to become finite existence. 

 To keep this clearly before the reader, I will ask him to excuse 

 me if I here repeat the logical arguments I adduced when the 

 conviction first came upon me, if only to refresh his memory 

 and to emphasise their importance. 



INFINITY OF SPIRIT EXISTENCE IS GOD, and is 

 contained in the electrical forces of Etber. The whole of Crea- 

 tion, as I pointed out in my previous work, tends to confirm 

 the necessary existence of Infinity, and as I have already 

 pointed out the Almighty must have come to the conclusion 

 that if it were possible for divine perfection to become imper- 

 fect, the only forces that could possibly deteriorate its perfec- 

 tion were the want of something to do, and something to love. 

 It therefore required a finite creation to perfect an infinite one, 

 for the following reasons. 



His infinite power rebelled against infinite inactivity, and 

 infinite love demanded some object outside itself to be beloved, 

 for self-love is the most degraded of all love, just as love of 

 others is the most perfect of all loves. But how is this to be 

 accomplished ? If the Almighty had divided himself into two 

 equal parts there would then have been two infinite beings 

 a logical absurdity or if into two unequal parts there would 

 have been two finite creations, and no infinity, which would 

 have meant the destruction of infinity. This would have been 

 equally absurd and ridiculous, for without infinity it would be 

 impossible to control finity, and without control there could be 

 no real wisdom, and divine wisdom could make no greater 

 mistake than to destroy its divinity. And infinite wisdom 

 must be logical, for logic is the science of truth, and divine 

 wisdom cannot err. Therefore, as previously demonstrated, 

 the only way was to create a finite part of himself which must 

 logically be part of Himself, in Himself, and controlled by 

 Himself. It therefore follows that if He decided to create a 

 finite part of Himself that was not to be an equivalent of Him- 

 self it must be an equation of Himself but differently arranged 

 and devoid of some of His attributes, or a part of some of His 

 attributes. Hence it follows that there were only two finite 

 existences possible, because if creation had contained three 

 finite existences there would have been four separate existences, 



