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fourth stage is evolved, as a result which is destined to be the 

 first step in a new order of evolution. Thus, Spirit, Existence 

 and Power of motion, produce the conception of creation, the 

 day of gas, on the first day ; then on the second day, Exist- 

 ence, by affinity the lowest order of love produces the second 

 day the first stage of construction by the creation of fluids on 

 to its birth by the creation of visibility out of invisibility. 

 We then retrace our steps from the column of Existence to 

 that of Spirit, and pick up its second attribute, Power of 

 Construction or Motion, on the one hand, to intermingle it 

 with the destructive influence of the Spirit of God the Father, 

 and the constructive one of the affinity of God the Mother 

 of Existence, for fluid is the first unstable product of exist- 

 ence which becomes the conception or incarnation of life, 

 which will be born on the fourth day by the creation of plant 

 life, the result of the activity of Spirit, Existence, and Power. 



We term this the first result of a Trinity of God's 

 attributes, and the birth of life with the manhood of Spirit, 

 the Youth of Affinity or Construction, and the Conception or 

 incarnation of power of action in the completion of material 

 construction. This first result, Life, is now to be the incarna- 

 tion of animal existence, in the same way that gas was to be 

 the invisible incarnation of visible Matter, and so now Life 

 is the incarnation of circulation, which is to be born on the 

 sixth day when mammal creation is to transmogrify circula- 

 tion into respiration, whose second result is to be the creation 

 of man (but these are subjects I must leave an ampler explana- 

 tion of to an enlarged edition of this work). 



I mention it here to show what I mean when I say Soul 

 was incarnate on the eighth day, but we cannot truly say it 

 has come into existence till the fifteenth day, the day of 

 universal peace which has not yet arrived, although it was 

 born on the eleventh day; when religion made the dawn of 

 Understanding by becoming conceived in Idolatry which was 

 the pregnancy of religion, the birth of which was not to take 

 place till the arrival of its third and last redeemer, Christ, 

 and whose manhood will not be attained till man can avoid 

 crime because it is foolish, and for which he suffers; not 

 because the parson forbids it and society and the law punish 

 it. But this Utopia is not to come till we arrive at the Nine- 



