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being able to form any true or understandable knowledge of 

 God, Creation, Ourselves, or our Destinies, or of the obliga- 

 tions and duties we owe both to God and to our fellow-men; 

 or to learn how to correct the faults and errors of science, 

 religion and governments. For the knowledge of God's Trinity 

 is the key, by which we are to understand and ascertain the 

 truth or falsehood of science and knowledge, and to strip the 

 cloak of superstition and bigotry from religion, and learn in 

 their stead true charity to our fellow-men. 



Mr. Romanes, in his work entitled " The Mental Evolution 

 of Men and Animals," considers that the distinction consists 

 in the placing of one state of mind before another and com- 

 paring the relations between them. What else is this, I ask 

 you, but the soul of Wisdom entering into the animal mind of 

 Thought? Please remember that Thought is the third attri- 

 bute of God the Father, Wisdom is the second of the attributes 

 of God the Soul, and that Imagination, Comprehension and 

 Understanding are the three attributes of God's Trinity that 

 make and complete the Trinity of the Soul of Man (see Attri- 

 butes of God, line 4, in Table I.). Mr. Romanes continues : 

 1 We have no evidence to show that any animal is capable of 

 objectifying its own ideas, and therefore we have no evidence 

 to show that any animal is capable of judgment. Indeed, I 

 will go further and affirm we have the best evidence which is 

 derivable from what are necessarily objective sources to prove 

 that no animal can possibly attain to these excellences of 

 objective life." 



Of course not, for as I am endeavouring to demonstrate, the 

 properties of God the Holy Ghost did not descend to any of 

 the apes or animals who did not learn to stand erect and to sin, 

 but only on the apes which became men and which have made 

 up the various races of mankind according to the different 

 species of their life as apes ; and then most probably involu- 

 tion, or the dawn of Soul did not take place till long after the 

 earth had cooled to such an extent that all bodily development 

 had stopped ; for it was that cooling process that ruled all 

 further development and made subsequent radically physical 

 alteration beyond attainment to any marked degree, and so 

 diverted the course of evolution from a physical to a psychical 

 development. And thus man alone is susceptible to the action 

 of those currents whose influence is necessary to evolve a soul, 



