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the dull facts of history attractive to ordinary people, in this 

 way it may be possible to establish a common playground on 

 which Science, Governments and Religions may meet in 

 friendly contest to compare their antagonistic views, and fight 

 them out in other ways than as in the past by bigoted strife, 

 steeped in the blood of mankind poured out in unlimited 

 measures round the statues and shrines of fanatical animosity, 

 intolerance and hatred born of the follies and ignorances of the 

 unevolved and unenlightened superstitions that the primitive 

 mind of man has created to beautify his innate aspiration for 

 knowledge of his creator. 



I must now turn to my present duty, and point out to the 

 reader in this second book how my hypothesis and evolution 

 will combine in the Epoch of Charity, which is not yet evolved, 

 to celebrate the marriage of Science and Religion, so as to 

 evolve the higher qualities of man's soul in the same manner 

 as the other attributes have intermingled in the past. In the 

 Epoch of Faith there were no such marriages because the influ- 

 ence of God the Mother was nearly, if not totally merged be- 

 neath the control of the Spirit of God the Father, and the Spirit 

 of God the Soul had not then begun to influence the course of 

 evolution. But in the Epoch of Hope, viz., that period be- 

 tween the creation of man as described in the last days of 

 Genesis, and the present day, we follow the course of the 

 evolutions of Religion and Civilisation, as by the properties 

 of Imagination and Comprehension man's mind is evolved to a 

 fit state to receive the Soul of Understanding and Wisdom. 



Somewhere about the first two hundred thousand years 

 of this Epoch of Hope is devoted to the evolution of 

 the quality of Imagination which is to enable man to 

 acquire Knowledge and Civilisation. The second half, cover- 

 ing between one and two hundred thousand years, is devoted 

 to evolving the quality of Comprehension, which is to develop 

 the arts of Religion, Commerce and Government as the Spirit 

 of God the Mother assumes the control of Evolution. These 

 circumstances make this Epoch one of supreme development 

 and perfection in the qualities of Energy, Selfishness and 

 Murder in its varied phases of robbery, feuds, vendettas, 

 state and religious wars. But as I have stated elsewhere, 

 nearly all virtues are the outcome of sins and crimes, so this 

 cruelty and hate are the failings that are to build up Empires, 



