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lations, which hitherto he has only been able to believe and 

 comprehend with the help of Faith in Religion ; and he will, 

 it is to be hoped, with greater wisdom become a religion unto 

 himself, when, as he acquires the power of understanding how 

 to use, not abuse, the gifts of God, some of the attributes of 

 the power of God which in the past have in part been with- 

 drawn from the future control of Nature will be supplanted 

 by man's increased powers of Will and Knowledge and Wis- 

 dom as evolution progresses. But enough will be left or else 

 returned in the future to enable him to rule the world more 

 efficiently than he has been able to do in the past, and so 

 relieve the Almighty from the necessity of exerting the 

 amount of control over Nature which has been necessary in the 

 past, and so maintain and further establish the distinction of 

 the inequality of the finite creation from the infinite Creator. 



So God by the withdrawal in due course of some of 

 the attributes of the Spirit of God the Father in proportion 

 as man ultimately acquires the gifts of Imagination, Compre- 

 hension and also the Spirit of Wisdom, the Spirit of God the 

 Holy Ghost, shall become complete within him in the same 

 manner as the Spirit of God the Mother became complete when 

 Christ enlightened the eyes of his soul by a perfect belief in 

 his Creator by religion, giving to his soul the powers of Love, 

 Belief and Hope, and so advanced thereby the light of Revela- 

 tion by means of Religion, by which force woman was to 

 conquer man's cruelty, brutality and selfishness, by implant- 

 ing in their stead the graces of Love, Fidelity and Sympathy, 

 to fit him to receive the soul of Understanding and Wisdom. 

 This gift will in the future disperse and blow away the mists 

 of bigotry and superstition, and destroy murder, cruelty, greed 

 and avarice and dishonesty, and admit the sunlight of the 

 Understanding of God's revelations to still further brighten 

 the lives of men with peace and content in days yet to come 

 when the Holy Ghost will have descended on him to teach him 

 all things, that, knowing God and himself, he may understand 

 how to use, not to abuse, the blessings of this world, as he is 

 now doing by turning to war, hate and selfish ends the know- 

 ledge God intended him to use that he might live in peace, 

 harmony and content by striving for the good of others. 



This is only a treatise, or I should have enlarged on the 

 development of plant life and shown how the laws of soul and 



