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kind these lessons and fit him for the next day in Evolution, 

 the day of " Peace to all men of good-will," when a federation 

 of nations will make use not abuse possible. 



In like manner in this Age of Cain we witnessed some 

 two hundred thousand years ago between the Northern 

 and Southern Races of mankind the commencement of the same 

 strife for the same principles that is being fought out at the 

 present time, and which is at the age we are now reviewing 

 to be fought out in Persia, India and China to establish civili- 

 sation and early religions and governments at the commence- 

 ment of this Epoch of Hope as Europe has now got to face 

 them during the next one thousand years. Thus the next five 

 hundred to one thousand years will complete the last of the 

 seven days of this Epoch of Hope, after which man is at last 

 to receive the promise of Christ which He came to establish 

 at the end of the first three days of the Epoch of Hope by 

 sowing the seed of the coming age of Peace, and so to prepare 

 the way for the dawn of commerce by the completion of Reli- 

 gion which Cain, Seth and Enos were to start. 



In like manner in the preceding Epoch of Faith the 

 first three days were devoted to the creation of the world ; the 

 fourth day was to usher in Plant Life ; the fifth Animal Life ; 

 the sixth day was to evolve mankind ; and the seventh was to 

 mark the dawn of his mind. So we now find the first three 

 days (which we may estimate at about three hundred thousand 

 years or so) of the Epoch of Hope are devoted to the evolution 

 of mind and of religion in Asia, to give a complete result when 

 on the fourth day of the Epoch of Hope, the day of religious 

 evolution, Christ, at the end of the third day, shall give the 

 final completing touch to its ideals and foretell the day of 

 peace that is to loom in the horizon on the first day of the 

 Epoch of Charity, about A.D. 2000, when man, having learnt 

 by study, science and wisdom, the seeds of which Christ came 

 to plant in the mind of man, and which was to be the seed of 

 the complete likeness of the Image of God in mankind, and 

 which man is to possess in the future Age of Charity, which I 

 presume will commence during the coming one thousand years, 

 when man will have grown the precious seeds of the plant of 

 the Soul of Wisdom. The seeds evolution was sowing during 

 the Eighth and Ninth Days of Cain and Abel were the seeds 

 of Energy, Courage, and Mind which were destined to grow 



