EVOLUTION AND GENESIS 



And God said Let the 

 Waters that are under the 

 Heavens be gathered together, 

 and let the dry ,land appear, 

 and so it was. 



(NoTE : This is really the 

 end of the third day. Notice 

 it is expressed by " And it 

 was so.") 



And God called the dry land 

 earth ; and gathering together 

 the waters he called them seas. 



(NOTE : T his completes 

 the third day and we now move 

 on to the Fourth Day, then re- 

 trace our steps to the Third 

 Day as above, and then go on 

 to the Sixth Day before we 

 conclude the description of the 

 Fourth Day.) 



And God said Let the 

 Earth bring forth grasses 

 and herbs yielding seeds, 

 and the fruit tree yielding 

 after its kind. (NoTE : Here 

 please note how God empha- 

 sises the laws of descent and 

 heredity to impress upon our 

 minds how much more import- 

 ant they are than those of 

 variation and environment f 

 which produce species and 

 geniuses, for we must remem- 

 ber that we are now dealing 

 with an age when the changes 

 were of such magnitude that 

 we marvel however they could 

 have taken place at all, yet at 

 this place he chooses to repeat- 

 edly state that His subsequent 

 creations are not to change but 



other goes on increasing till all 

 the Heavens are full of 

 myriads of planets and worlds 

 and stars in the form of nebu- 

 lae in dust. Then the 

 cooling of the earth and the 

 Heavenly bodies produces the 

 further consolidation of the 

 material creation. This is the 

 age of Flames, which, as the 

 earth continues to cool, pro- 

 duces dense clouds of steam 

 and vapour which surround 

 the earth with a canopy of 

 clouds which obscure the light 

 of heaven, and produce the 

 first stage of darkness men- 

 tioned in Genesis. Thus the 

 whole of the molecules of Mat- 

 ter further consolidate with 

 increasing density and the 

 trinity of material forces is 

 complete, viz., Motion, Heat 

 and Chemical Action are now 

 to control the first finite result 

 of Creation, the World of 

 Matter (Figure 3 in the Mathe- 

 matical Table in Book I, page 

 35). Please note that the 

 figures of complete evolutions 

 are 3, 6, and 9. Now, Matter 

 is Figure 3, so by this Table it 

 is the first complete product of 

 Evolution. So this third day 

 completes its consolidation 

 from its previous semi-molten 

 state, in which it has been sur- 

 rounded by heavy atmospheres 

 of vapour, which now de- 

 scended in the rains of the first 

 deluge of Evolution or sinking 



