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order, social charity and autocratic power of control which are 

 to lay the foundation stones of governments and religious 

 philosophy. This evolution, though much older, is so slow 

 of progress that it is easily outstripped at first in the race for 

 the laurels of civilisation by the lower types of progress that 

 have for their aims the acquirement of wealth rather than 

 efficiency, to which the greater comforts of art and of ease have 

 enslaved the children of Cain and whose more material form of 

 religion requires less time to evolve. This gave rise to a state of 

 murder and robbery and war which had not existed before. It 

 in its turn evolves stone implements in place of the bow and 

 arrow which satisfied the wants of Adam, who represents the 

 stick age and age of ape-men, and so creates a more perfect 

 development of man's evolution in the art of sinning by his 

 becoming a robber and a murderer. So man passes from civili- 

 sation to agriculture, from the stick age to the stone age, from a 

 nomadic age of shepherds and " such as live in tents " to one 

 of husbandry, a race of gardeners, farmers and villagers, and 

 so at the same time he evolves the faculty of Imagination, the 

 first quality of his soul. 



This brings us to the great Glacial Period of Geology, and 

 it is this period of rains, storms and floods which is to fertilise 

 the globe, and lastly, but not least, to so evolve the energy, 

 courage and higher qualities of Unity, Justice and Perseverance 

 in the northern races, particularly the Aryan Race, to such an 

 extent as will fit them above all others to receive the second 

 attribute of the Trinity of the Human Soul, Comprehension, 

 after the birth of which faculty man will be able to advance 

 beyond civilisation and agriculture to the higher evolutions of 

 Religion, Government, Science, Invention, Commerce, and 

 ultimately conquer the Universe of Matter. This period is 

 roughly estimated at somewhere about three hundred thousand 

 years which makes up the Epoch of Hope. 



As already described, this period of cold drove the Aryan 

 Race back to the warmer portions of the Globe, bringing 

 with it the higher forms of religious belief, the outcome (as 

 all religious beliefs are of an intimate knowledge of the laws 

 of nature) of a more severe fight against climatic adversity 

 and the increased wisdom, energy and experience that these 

 struggles gave to man, and caused him to evolve higher codes 

 of honour, which if they did not increase the evolution of the 



