40 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



of God the Mother (see second column of Table I.) Existence, 

 Love and Life, which will produce its result Comprehension, 

 on the first day of the Epoch of Hope, and so give rise to the 

 dawn of Soul, the first attribute of the third person of God the 

 Holy Ghost, as Imagination starts the mind of man ; which 

 is the first dawn of his soul in creation. Reading horizontally 

 the first line that gives the first three results of the first 

 three trinities of God's attributes, Imagination, Comprehen- 

 sion and Understanding which are to form the future soul 

 of man. Man has now progressed sufficiently to evolve a 

 mind and will of his own, by means of Religion, Civilisation, 

 Government and Science, and thus prepare himself to receive 

 the dawn of the soul which he is to finally obtain in the third 

 Epoch of Evolution, that of Charity. Of course Soul is 

 dawning through the latter part of the Epoch of Hope, just 

 in the same way as mind and love in an animal form dawned 

 in the Epoch of Faith. 



The seven stages through which we have now gone are : 

 First, Disintegration ; second, Attraction ; third, Creation of 

 Earth and Planets, Water and Air ; fourth, Creation of Plant 

 Life; fifth, Creation of Fishes, Mammoths and Reptiles, and 

 creation of sex marriage : sixth, the creation of Animal Life 

 and of Man ; seventh, Creation of Lucifers or Human Beasts, 

 and dawn of the human mind. This takes us up to the end 

 of the Garden of Paradise, the age when earth, being at a 

 high temperature with a moist climate grew fruits and vege- 

 tables in such profusion that the life of each species grew 

 from plants to animals. Existence then rushed ahead 

 to its destruction and its extermination, which was brought 

 about by its being able to live without the effort of hunting 

 for food, and it was only those animals that were compelled 

 to hunt for food that kept their energy. For the one thing 

 more than anything else that makes any existence continuous 

 is hard work and energy, and the one thing that exterminates 

 life is laziness. It is almost the only crime for which God 

 punishes man with loss of the power to reproduce brain. 



Angels of the mammoth creation in the Garden of Eden, 

 being too lazy to hunt for their food became extinct and gave 

 place to the smaller and later evolutions of life which came 

 into existence when the profuse growth of this age of luxury 

 of the Garden of Eden was on the decline, through the cooling 



