74 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



evolving Love, Comprehension and Invention, and then only 

 in the Aryan or redeemed races ; by breeding in and crossing 

 with the Yellow races may give them these qualities ; which are 

 the rewards of their more strenuous fight against the hard- 

 ships of evolution. This is why you must breed from the fit, 

 and encourage their predominance, and prevent the criminal 

 breeding, if you would stop crime; not waste your time in 

 trying to convert the sinner. This is why we find that when 

 a race becomes degenerate through the male vices of laziness, 

 gluttony and extravagance, and the women do not lose their 

 powers of vitality, the nation loses the power to create brain, 

 energy, mind and soul, but not necessarily bodily strength, 

 health or life. Should, however, woman fail in Love, Fidelity 

 or Morality (note, the curse does not fall on the cruelty, 

 selfishness or infidelity of men, nor does it fall on the laziness, 

 gluttony or extravagance of women), then the race is doomed 

 to physical, not mental, degeneration, and probably to ex- 

 tinction. 



The seven qualities which woman transmits are those of 

 God the Mother, and are : first, EXISTENCE ; second, 

 LOVE; third, LIFE; fourth, COMPREHENSION; fifth, 

 INVENTION; sixth, COMFORT; seventh, PLEASURE. 

 And it is because Comprehension is one of these attributes of 

 God the Mother, and therefore, like body, is one of woman's 

 gifts of transmission, that woman is more rapid of perception 

 than man, although she is slower to control her actions by 

 reason. But her comprehension and most of her qualities 

 could not descend to her grandsons, for it is Comprehension, 

 Love and Invention that redemption is to extend as hereditary 

 qualities to man as well as to woman, after which her experi- 

 ences are to influence the future minds of her male offspring, 

 which is the reason which makes redemption a necessity. 

 For had not God caused God-men to be born, man would not 

 have evolved any virtues of Love, Sympathy or Mercy. 

 Woman, on the other hand, cannot transmit the qualities of 

 Imagination, Thought, Mind, Brain or Soul, which are the 

 attributes of the male personalities of God, so these can only 

 be hereditary on the male side. Up to the present time we 

 have evolved five of these seven qualities of woman ; we have 

 yet to evolve Comfort and Pleasure. The seven attributes of 



