82 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



day life, and teaching him that God is not a mystic ideal, 

 but the soul of nature. 



Now the stage of evolution at which we have now arrived, 

 about two or three hundred thousand years ago, the Age of 

 Adam, man in his half-ape, half-human development is just 

 entering upon the Glacial period of geology, whose cold by 

 liberating from out the material world some of its latent stores 

 of electrical forces and radio activity tends to produce higher 

 physical and psychical developments. The liberation of these 

 hitherto latent forces is the manner in which God is now 

 about to return as active instead of passive or dormant factors 

 the three attributes of His Trinity, Imagination, Comprehen- 

 sion, and Understanding, the return of which to Nature during 

 the Stick Age is to transform the animal mind of the ape into 

 the human mind of man as described in our last chapter, and 

 so make the power of Human Will, Agriculture and Civilisa- 

 tion possible evolutions, which have hitherto been impossible. 

 As a result these ages of cold so reduce and make scarce 

 the food supply and warmth and comfort of all kinds and 

 descriptions of life that only those animals whose brain power 

 has evolved to the higher degree of development are able to 

 live through these ages of cold which now destroy all the 

 mammoth mammals, in just the same manner as the cold of the 

 beginning of the Triassic and Permian ages destroyed its 

 mammoth brain. It is quite in accord with my hypothesis that 

 mammal reptiles and so gave rise to the higher order of 

 the motive force which gave rise to life, brain and psychological 

 development of all forms of evolution are due to the alternate 

 expansion and contraction of the earth's surface during the 

 intermittent stages of heat and cold, which are the physical 

 active forces which liberated the imprisoned latent radio acti- 

 vity that has produced the mind or brain muscle and nerve 

 developments of men and animals, destroyed past species and 

 made permanent the most energetic varieties of all animal 

 and living species. But my hypothesis would also lead to the 

 assumption that all genius and excessive bodily and physical 

 development are due to slow but prolonged ages of contraction 

 that liberated the latent heat of the globe and so produced 

 mighty and varied forms of material and physical develop- 

 ments by making active the properties of God the Mother, 

 Love or Affinity, warmth, contraction to produce construction 



