14 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



In the past we have had no better means and it is probable 

 it may yet take thousands of years before we can evolve a 

 better one than religion for controlling our lives and actions. 



Every enlightened mind cannot help realising that well as 

 religion has performed its duty in the past we are nearing the 

 marriage festival of the nuptials of Science and Religion which 

 will in time grant us a means of self-control even more con- 

 ducive to real virtue than religion. In the past Religion has 

 been the young and beautiful bride of Imagination, the fourth 

 son of God the Father. Remember, Religion is the child of 

 God the Father out of the Mother of God's Trinity and the 

 humanity of woman (I do not mean the Mother of God, the 

 Blessed Virgin, but the female portion of God Almighty the 

 female gender of God's Trinity) which marriage has pro- 

 duced its miracles of the redemption of mankind, and in the 

 same sense that Imagination is the first part of the finite 

 Trinity of the human soul, and is therefore the fourth son 

 of the first person of the Infinite Trinity of God the Father, 

 so is Comprehension (the Mother of religion) the fourth 

 daughter of the second person of the Almighty Trinity, God 

 the Mother. This is what I mean by these marriages of God 

 and Religion. They are the intermingling of the attributes of 

 the Trinity of God Power (m), Love (f), and Wisdom (m) 

 within the Soul of Man Imagination (m), Comprehension (f), 

 and Understanding (m) (m. signifies male and f. female). 



It is this intermingling during the course of evolution that 

 is to ultimately evolve the Soul of Man in the Epochs of Hope 

 and Charity, as Nature did his animal mind in the Epoch of 

 Faith, and Religion his human mind in the present Epoch of 

 Hope. Now during the Epoch of Faith there was no marriage 

 between all the infinite personalities of God's Trinity, only 

 between two of the infinite personalities of God, viz., God 

 the Father and God the Mother. The forces of Spirit of the 

 invisible power of God the Mother whose attributes Love and 

 Life alone marked creation by the marriage of the finite por- 

 tion of the powers of Will and the powers of Love. Human 

 Wisdom is the first finite portion of the third personage of God's 

 Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, who had, until the creation of 

 Imagination and Comprehension in the Soul of Man, no exist- 

 ence or influence over creation. The Universe is but a visible 

 portion of Invisible Infinity, or existence without a soul. Now 



