24 THE THRESHOLD 



to be lasting (See Chapter on 

 Descent, Book 1.], and God 

 would not have continued to 

 perpetuate the likeness of 

 trees, plants and animals in 

 rocks, stones and clay, and 

 even, as Embryology proves, 

 in the wombs of our parents, 

 if he did not mean to teach 

 mankind that the laws of de- 

 scent are unvariable.) 



Whose seed was to multiply 

 in itself upon the earth. And 

 so it was. (End of the Fourth 

 Day.) And the earth brought 

 forth grass and herbs yielding 

 seed after its kind, and the 

 trees yielding fruit, whose 

 seed was in itself (the likeness 

 of man whose seed was to be 

 in himself) , and the evening 

 and the morning were the 

 Fourth Day. 



(NoTE : In the above we 

 have again the third, fourth 

 and fifth days of evolution, 

 described as the fourth day of 

 Genesis, because the comple- 

 tion of one evolution overlaps 

 the start of the next two.) 



And the Evening and the 

 Morning were the Fourth 

 Day. On the Fifth Day God 

 said Let there be light in the 

 Firmaments of Heaven to 

 divide the day from the night, 

 and let them be for signs and 

 for seasons, and for days and 

 for years, and let them be for 

 light in the firmament of the 

 Heaven to give light upon the 



OF EVOLUTION 



of the earth's surface, for it 

 appears to me that the biblical 

 deluge was the third of a 

 trinity of floods or ages of ab- 

 normal downpours, two of 

 which occur in this Epoch of 

 Faith, and one in the present 

 Epoch of Hope, the glacial age 

 of Science. In the third day 

 of evolution these rain-clouds 

 of steam condensed and de- 

 scended in rains, making the 

 first of a trinity of floods, but 

 so intense was the heat of the 

 sun at this period of Evolution 

 that the bulk of these waters 

 returned as vapour in the 

 course of thousands of years ; 

 so that the bulk of these 

 waters are again returned into 

 the heavens in the form of 

 steam, to again descend during 

 the fourth and fifth days so as 

 to form the seas and waters, 

 and the earth as it contracts 

 and expands is alternately 

 submerged and raised above 

 the surface of the sea, to form 

 new continents and seas, vary- 

 ing in 4heir extent and depth, 

 so as to enable the gradual 

 production of new varieties of 

 plant life and animal species, 

 and produce the hot and cold 

 periods of evolution, the gla- 

 cial ages that tear and rip to 

 pieces its rocks and stones and 

 intermingling them with the 

 debris of past animal exist- 

 ences to make a soil. In this 

 way " God made the waters, 



