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and so to teach mankind the virtues of Devotion, Love and 

 Unity. Cannot ye, oh ye rulers of Nations, arise above your 

 petty pride, ambitions, and party politics and commercial 

 greed and nail them on the Cross of, firstly, Universal Free- 

 dom to all Nations, regardless of colour, faith or creed ; 

 secondly, universal justice to all Nations of Freedom in Com- 

 merce, Government and Religion ; thirdly, united legislation 

 to prevent and punish crime, whether against individual, com- 

 munity or nation? This is the Trinity of Action God now 

 calls on you to perform in the coming epoch, which is to com- 

 plete the Epoch of Hope which commenced with Cain and Abel. 



Can you rise to the occasion as Christ rose on the Cross ? 

 For as when Adam and Eve learnt to sin, God gave them a 

 mind so that they might learn virtue ; so now to such nations 

 as will take this lesson to heart, and realise that the time has 

 now come, with the end of this Epoch of Hope, when murder 

 and Crime, by God's decree, are to become obsolete virtues of 

 evolution, it becomes your duty to destroy the last rem- 

 nant of murder, the remnant we call war. For just as murder 

 was the virtue that gave man a mind, destroyed the angels and 

 created the devils five hundred thousand years ago, so peace 

 is the virtue, oh ye rulers of Nations, that ye are called upon 

 by evolution to produce as the crowning evolution of the Epoch 

 of Hope if you wish to gain a soul in the Epoch of Charity. 



Can you rise to do your duty as Christ rose to His 

 on the Cross ? If not, your Nation must cease to advance, as 

 China and other savage nations have already done. Ponder, 

 oh ye students of Science, over the other lessons Evolution now 

 points out to you, for the success of the coming of the Spirit 

 of God, the Soul of Wisdom, during the Epoch of Charity, 

 which is to start with the day of "Peace amongst nations of 

 good-will," which is to fit mankind for immortality, depends 

 on you. This is the duty which lies at your door. To you 

 it gives a demand in the future that was withheld by God from 

 the Churchmen in the past, and that even they were not per- 

 mitted to use lest they might abuse it, until the mind of man 

 had arrived at a higher standard of development. It is your 

 duty to interpret to mankind in an understandable manner 

 the revelations of God as evolution unwinds them. Surely, 

 but very slowly to your very, very, very slowly evolving minds, 

 as the gifts of wisdom will be very, very slowly given to man, 



