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nature, Evolution and creation both in animals and in man- 

 kind ; and are brought about in the exact order and manner 

 that one would expect them to be evolved, presuming that the 

 hypothesis that creation is the result of the withdrawal by 

 God Almighty of the attributes of God the Mother and of 

 God the Holy Ghost and some of those of God the Father 

 from the whole of those of ether, and the gradual return dur- 

 ing the course of evolution of the forces so withdrawn ; that 

 only the attributes of God the Father, and to a slight extent 

 those of God the Mother, are allowed to control or to develop 

 the animal kingdom, although in their inferior forms these 

 attributes are all called into action; it is not till man has 

 evolved the final shape of his body that those of God the Soul 

 commence to exert some influence on the evolution of the mind 

 of man, so making man, and man only, a true likeness of God. 



We find, therefore, that from this hypothesis and 

 standpoint only of God and His Trinity, it is possible to over- 

 come the difficulties of previous students of evolution, and to 

 account for the hitherto " unaccountable departure " which is 

 in reality only a further extension of the same laws that 

 previously ruled evolution of mind, as I have just illustrated. 



I have already stated that it appears to me that our indivi- 

 dual minds are only a recapitulation of the minds of our 

 ancestors. Now at the commencement of the Epoch of Hope, 

 we find that God withdraws the faculty of memory to permit 

 of the evolution of civilisation, for had he not done so, we would 

 not have had sufficient influence over the actions of our chil- 

 dren to have been able to teach and educate them ; for if, like 

 animals, man had been allowed to retain the memories of 

 actions which were performed previous to his birth, his autho- 

 rity would have been lessened. Hence it appears to me that 

 if we do not realise the manner in which we are able to recall 

 the knowledge of our past ancestors in an imperfect manner, 

 we cannot conceive how truly insignificant the possession of 

 our individuality of mind really is, and we are in consequence 

 inclined to over-estimate our ability which is the cause of most 

 of our errors. Our natural pride and conceit cause us to 

 make the great mistake of imagining that our thoughts and 

 ideas are our own. We are entirely governed by the laws of 

 descent and the variation of evolution ; if we only realised it 

 (see Genesis), like is doomed to beget like like father like 



