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all these difficulties vanish, after which the Spirit of Power 

 is to be in part withdrawn ; so that at no one period of creation 

 shall the full measure of more than two of the Persons of 

 God's Trinity 'be existent in the world at the same time. 



As we have demonstrated, the complete existence of the 

 three at the same time would be tantamount to the exist- 

 ence of two infinite creations, which is a logical absurdity. 

 But with the use of the Tables and the Hypothesis which they 

 establish, it is possible to adjust and dispel the doubts and 

 difficulties that have hitherto faced the philosopher and 

 student of Evolution in the development of the human mind 

 or soul. Mr. C. Lloyd Morgan, writing in Nature, September 

 ist, 1892, says : " I for one do not for a moment question 

 that the mental process of animal's and man's mind are like 

 products of Evolution. But the power of Cognizance, Rela- 

 tion and Introspection appears to mark a new departure in 

 Evolution." I hope in this treatise to be able to show that 

 this new departure is the return of the Spirit of God the 

 Mother in the Epoch of Hope, together with the dawning of 

 the Spirit of God the Soul. The same writer continues as 

 follows : " I am not prepared to say that there is a difference 

 in kind between the mind of man and the mind of a dog.' 1 

 I have already pointed out that after the apes which became 

 men the dog, through becoming an expert murderer and 

 cannibal, and by so becoming a sinner, attained nearer towards 

 the evolution of mind than any other animals, except perhaps 

 some of the monkeys. It is only that the dog failed to learn to 

 stand upright, whereas man's life as an ape enabled him to 

 attain this position, which posture has enabled him to evolve 

 still further, and so to become the superior of every other 

 animal ; for in manner of hunting and love of killing for plea- 

 sure, which constitutes animal murder, the dog as well as 

 man became a lucifer and devil. 



" This would imply," continues Mr. Morgan, " a difference 

 in the origin or a difference in the essential nature of its 

 being. There is a great and marked difference in kind be- 

 tween the material process which we call physiological and the 

 mental process we call psychical. They belong to wholly 

 different orders of being. I see no reason for believing that 

 the mental process in man differs thus in kind from the mental 

 process in animals, but I do think we have in the introduction 



