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THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



Earth. And the evening and 

 the morning were the Fifth 

 Day. (The morning of the 

 Sixth, and the dawn of the 

 Seventh and Eighth Days.) 

 And God said Let us make 

 man (it is not as heretofore 

 " God made man/' but " Let 

 us make man/ 1 This marks 

 the Sixth and Seventh stages 

 of creation, and is the dawn of 

 Love and Soul in Man, when 

 he learned to sin and gain re- 

 ward, and for the first time in 

 creation God the Father, God 

 the Mother and God the Soul 

 have all combined to make 

 Man, only the first two per- 

 sons of the Trinity having had 

 a hand in the creation up to 

 now.) 



In our own image and like- 

 ness (the apes who became 

 man) and let them have do- 

 minion over the fish of the 

 sea, and over the fowls of the 

 air, and over the cattle, and 

 over all the earth and over 

 every creeping thing that 

 creepeth upon the earth. 

 (NoTE : Now, is not this re- 

 ward enough to warn us to 

 curb our senseless thirst for 

 wealth, Power, and the con- 

 quest of the countries and 

 goods of our neighbours and 

 other races, and to leave war 

 and strife behind as worn-out 

 tools no longer necessary, now 

 that Understanding has at last 

 in the Nineteenth Century 



of animals or angels was ex- 

 cessive in shape and size, and 

 their development was much 

 more rapid owing to the abun- 

 dant growth of this age than 

 is possible at later periods of 

 Evolution, when the earth had 

 further cooled and contracted. 

 But for the same reason they 

 were less able to stand the cold, 

 and consequently they suc- 

 cumbed and became extinct, 

 and animals who developed at 

 a later date, when the temper- 

 ature had fallen, being of a 

 hardier mettle, though at first 

 vastly their inferiors, ulti- 

 mately became their superiors, 

 because they surpassed them 

 in energy. Hence the mind of 

 man, when recalling this stage 

 of evolution, has contorted this 

 phase of history into a state of 

 mental superiority, whereas it 

 should only be read as meaning 

 a superior state of physical 

 perfection, and the perfection 

 of body, not mental perfection, 

 was God's order of merit in 

 Evolution at this stage of de- 

 velopment. But as time goes 

 on, physical merit, size and 

 shape are to give place to 

 superior powers of suffering 

 and resistance, which are the 

 seeds that in man's future de- 

 velopment are to grow to the 

 properties of Will and Deter- 

 mination and which when 

 evolved were to enable him to 

 rise superior to all the rest of 



