54 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



When influenced by the higher attributes of God the Soul 

 during the Epochs of Hope and Charity the results are as 

 shown in the latter part of the preceding Table. In this case 

 the different arrangement of numbers signifies that in the first 

 column the animal emotions are taken in alternate order in 

 groups of seven from eight to fifteen and from fifteen to 

 twenty-one, as each of these groups of seven are influenced by 

 the predominance in the Epoch of Hope of the united action 

 of God the Mother in conjunction with God the Soul, and by 

 the influence, in the Epoch of Charity, of the predominance of 

 God the Soul over the influences of both God the Father and 

 God the Mother. In the third column the order is again 

 repeated with the figures i to 7 put opposite so as to divide 

 them into the two epochs with which they are concerned. The 

 first seven, or the. animal emotions, occupy the whole of the 

 first two epochs of Evolution, during which they are evolved 

 as material in the first epoch, and mental and physical evolu- 

 tions in the second epoch, while the other fourteen human 

 emotions are produced in like manner by the mental and 

 psychical evolutions of man's higher qualities, and commenc- 

 ing in the Epoch of Hope and being continued into the Epoch 

 of Charity, in just the same way that the physical evolutions 

 commenced in their animal form in the first epoch, and grew 

 into mental human evolutions by the end of the second. 



You will notice also that in the first two epochs, each animal 

 emotion is affected by two attributes and produces fourteen 

 human emotions, whereas in the Epochs of Hope and Charity 

 the psychological development leaves fourteen animal influ- 

 ences affected by the seven influences of God the Soul only 

 to produce fourteen higher orders of emotion in addition to 

 the fourteen lower orders of human emotion, that have been 

 produced in the first half of Evolution. 



