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 were physically and mentally much more highly evolved, inas- 

 much as they had evolved higher standards of Mercy, Charity, 

 Honour, and Justice, although they were less highly developed 

 as far as skill, deceit and cunning were concerned, when they 

 descended upon the Persian and Indian Races, so are quick 

 to realise the value of agriculture and civilisation. Having 

 developed through a life in closer touch with Nature have 

 higher powers of comprehension to add to Mongolian Imagina- 

 tion are now, by intermingling, to evolve also the germs of 

 Wisdom as well as of Religion by Government, and so bring 

 us to the day of the dawn of Understanding, on the Ninth Day 

 of Creation, and to complete the incarnation of Soul in the 

 mind of mankind on the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Day, 

 and thus fit him to evolve Commerce and Invention on the 

 Thirteenth and Fourteenth Day. So when they conquer and 

 acquire the northern portions of India and Persia, some 

 twenty to twenty-five thousand years before the birth 

 of Christ, they start a more advanced system of 

 civilisation in place of the Mongolian one. 



This, falling into fitter hands, produces the civilisa- 

 tions of India, Persia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, interlarded 

 with the higher ethics of Buddhist and Brahmin beliefs. For 

 with their higher conception of honour to the victor, which 

 gave rise to the customs of Caste and Heredity, they have 

 evolved a belief in one God, and one God only, and in the 

 mystery of His Trinity, as well as a higher code of justice, 

 mercy and unity, as a result of their fights against the cold 

 and snow of the Glacial Period. This enables them to lay the 

 foundation-stone of Religions, Governments, Empires, Com- 

 merce and Science, and so to move Evolution on to its next 

 three stages of development. Concurrent with this advance- 

 ment is steadily growing the germs and seed of religion to 

 which I will devote my next chapter, for now that I have 

 taken my reader to the end of the Ninth Day, which corre- 

 sponds with the end of the Glacial Period, personified in the 

 account in Genesis by Noah and the Floods, which latter fitted 

 man's body to receive the seed of the third faculty of his Soul, 

 that of the Understanding of Wisdom in its most primitive 

 form of elementary government. But it is only the barest 

 rudimentary knowledge of Wisdom he is yet to receive before 

 the Nineteenth Century, yet as the Ninth Day, the day of 



