CHAPTER IV 



THE EVOLUTION OF MIND IN MAN 



now devote a chapter to the evolution of mind, before 

 following on the course of Evolution, which is now about to 

 evolve the mind of mankind as apart from the animal mind 

 of instinct, by evolving the first attribute of his soul, the 

 faculty of Imagination which is now about to make the 

 second great departure in the course of Evolution and is 

 to separate the Epoch of Hope from that of Faith and we 

 have just brought to a conclusion, having followed it up to the 

 seventh day of Genesis when God created man in his own 

 likeness by granting him a mind and the dawn or incarnation 

 of a soul. I say dawn or incarnation of a soul, for although 

 during this Epoch of Hope, which commences now that man 

 has evolved a perfect shape, and is to end about the year A.D. 

 1900 or 2000, and occupies about three to five hundred thou- 

 sand years, after which he will evolve a soul. We cannot, 

 therefore, consider his soul as born till A.D. 1900, when we 

 commence the third great departure with the Epoch of Charity, 

 during which man will evolve in ages yet unborn the third and 

 last attribute of the human soul, by gaining the power of 

 Understanding, and becoming the possessor of the soul of 

 Wisdom. 



For as I have to some extent explained elsewhere, all 

 evolutions have three or four stages of development, which 

 I term Conception, Youth, Manhood, and Old Age, the better 

 to explain the manner of their development. Hence when we 

 review an Evolution which is, so far as I can judge by my 

 Hypothesis, the result of at least the concurrent and inter- 

 mingled action of the forces produced by the return of three 

 attributes of God's Trinity to active, instead of dormant exist- 

 ence, it appears that each force creates a new phase of this 

 Evolution; as each fresh attribute intermingles its influence, 

 and moves the course of each concurrent influence, three steps 

 forward, then two back, and the next three forward until a 



