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to me also that some such action must have taken place over 

 a hundred thousand years ago to have evolved the increased 

 family love, unity and affection and the dependence of the 

 young upon the parents to make such a marked distinction 

 between man and the animals, and to give rise to the power 

 of worship which created the first dawn of religion in the form 

 of idolatry and the dawn of civilisation in agriculture. 



I could then comprehend the hidden meaning of 

 these words " Adam " (who represents the Stick Age prior 

 to the dawn of religion and civilisation) " knew his wife Eve, 

 who said I have gotten thee a Son of God." For this would 

 corroborate the creation at this period of the first of the three 

 God-made men to establish Love, the first of the three trans- 

 missible attributes of God the Mother, and would correspond 

 to the dawn of Chinese religion in idolatry some eighty to one 

 hundred thousand years ago. But it is most improbable that 

 God will allow mankind to evolve any form of religion in 

 advance of the evolution of his mind at the age in which he 

 lived, for such an act would be inclined to frustrate the laws that 

 presumably govern his plan of creation. The careful reader 

 of the Bible will not fail to notice that whenever Christ was 

 asked any question relating to procedure and regulation of our 

 acts in the future that were likely to be materially altered as 

 man's mind became further evolved and better acquainted with 

 the ethics of revelation that underlie the truths of nature, he 

 is careful to give his questioners equivocal answers that con- 

 tain truth, but does not clearly express it, for the true extent 

 of these mysteries is not to be made known till the evolution of 

 science and invention is sufficiently advanced to make known 

 to him what is true and what is false in nature, or until he has 

 further evolved his soul by receiving the attributes of God the 

 Holy Ghost when he shall arrive at the Age of Charity, which 

 is to commence about A.D. 1800, but is really not to take place 

 in any marked degree till after the Fifteenth Day of peace 

 amongst the Nations of good-will ; and we are only arrived at 

 the Fourteenth Day of Evolution, the Age of Invention, after 

 which man is to become possessed of a soul capable of under- 

 standing true wisdom and correctly distinguishing between 

 right and wrong. Yet it seems to me that man could not 

 have evolved any of the simple idolatrous forms of religion and 

 worship in sufficient force to give rise to Love or Sympathy, 



