28 THE THRESHOLD 



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/' This marks 

 the Sixth and Seventh stages 

 of creation, and is the dawn of 

 Love and Soul in Man, when 



OF EVOLUTION 

 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, 



Threshold of Evolution, Book 2, opposite page 29. 



ERRATA. 



Verse 27 Genesis Chapter I has been misquoted, it should read : 

 So God made man to his own image, in the image of God created he 

 him male and female, created he them male and female." 



In other versions of the Bible the reading is sometimes stated thus : 

 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created 

 he him ; male and female created he them." (Author). 



(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 



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 



