12 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



like men, who by attaining perfection as devils were able to 

 become perfect saints. Hence we have to follow him through 

 the first stages of evolution to see how he becomes first a perfect 

 devil, then in the Epoch of Hope his strife to become a perfect 

 sinner as the world evolves by the creation of the religion 

 that Christ came to teach so that he could put into practice 

 Faith, Hope and Charity. This takes us through to the end 

 of the Epoch of Hope and also takes us up to the present time. 



In the ages to come, in the Epoch of Charity, man is to 

 become so wise that he can at last be a perfect saint, when many 

 sins will be forgiven him because he will have learned from the 

 Redeemer and woman how to love much, and then his equa- 

 tion will be two females and one male, and his trinity of 

 creation will be complete and give way to Immortality in the 

 percentage of two women to one man. I would not presume to 

 suggest how this is to come about, I only mention it as a 

 mathematical necessity of the Hypothesis. For at last man 

 will have learned to conquer the Animals, then the world of 

 Matter, and finally Woman, and God will have combined to 

 teach him how to conquer himself. Lastly, the Holy Ghost 

 will descend and so enlighten his mind with divine wisdom 

 and correct understanding of good and evil that he will be too 

 wise to sin foolishly, and if he became too wise to do wrong 

 he would be as powerful as God, and this God never intended 

 he should be. 



And this evolution will complete the Trinity of Faith, 

 Hope and Charity, which makes up the three weeks of creation. 

 Thus in following the course of evolution in the subsequent 

 chapters I am endeavouring to help the reader to trace the 

 course of my hypothesis through its various stages of the 

 return of the attributes of God's Trinity to creation ; each stage 

 or day of evolution corresponds to the action of the new attri- 

 bute which is influencing its development, and shows how in 

 the scheme of evolution the three concurrent forces are at work 

 to produce opposite results which we term good and bad ; but it 

 must be remembered that these terms are only our way of 

 expressing advancement and retrogression, and that both are 

 equally necessary to the production of a perfect result, and it 

 would be more correctly expressed by the terms destruction, 

 construction and reconstruction, because good gives place to sin, 

 and sin gives place to vice to secure the creation of virtue, 



