EVOLUTION 



(ist Day.) In the beginning 

 God created the Heaven and 

 the Earth, and the Earth was 

 without form and void, and 

 darkness was upon the face of 

 the deep. 



(and Day.) And the Spirit of 

 God moved upon the face of 

 the waters. 



(3rd Day.) And God said Let 

 there be Light, and God called 

 the Light Day, and the dark- 

 ness he called Night. 



NOTE : As we pointed out 

 in Chapter 5 of Book 1., Evo- 

 lution moves three steps for- 

 ward, and two steps back, but 

 never straight ahead. Note 

 also that the same course is 

 here pursued in Genesis, for 

 God means to impress this on 

 our minds. For the reader 

 will see that the first day of 

 Genesis travels into the three 

 first days of the epoch of 

 Faith, and the second day as 

 described in Genesis goes back 

 and commences on the second 

 day and travels on to the 

 fourth day of Evolution, and 

 when we come to the descrip- 

 tion in Genesis of the third 

 day 9 it commences on the 

 second day of Creation, and 

 travels on to the fifth. This 

 was always a puzzle to me un- 

 til I obtained my mathematical 

 table of the trinity of creation 

 which I have given in Book I., 

 Chapter 4. But when this 

 mathematical table of trinity 



AND GENESIS 21 



God the Mother and that of 

 God the Soul from the Spirit 

 of God the Father, which left 

 the spirit of Power or Motion 

 in uncontrolled possession of 

 the portions of His Infinity 

 that became finite, uninflu- 

 enced by the Spirits of Exist- 

 ence and Soul which had been 

 withdrawn. This, of course, 

 caused disintegration, and 

 under the influence of electri- 

 cal and other forces luminous 

 gases lighted up the whole of 

 Creation, for the molecules of 

 God's ether are no longer held 

 together by the Spirit of His 

 divine love, therefore they are 

 now whirled through space, as 

 Milton expresses it, " In dire 

 confusion, rout on rout, con- 

 fusion worse confounded " ; 

 and so God created the firma- 

 ment and the Heavens were lit 

 up by burning gases, devoid of 

 love or affinity to hold them 

 together, which travelled 

 through space with the mighty 

 rapidity of light, illustrating, 

 as Nature does in all things, 

 the infinite power of the Crea- 

 tor. For the trinity of power 

 in Nature is, first, the Power 

 of Action; second, the Power 

 of Heat (for, as Professor 

 Davey conclusively demon- 

 strated, Heat is the result of 

 the rapid motion of the mole- 

 cules of air and the Matter 

 under combustion) ; third, 

 Chemical Action of recombi- 



