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in the coming days of the Epoch of Charity, which are to evolve 

 the third faculty of man's soul, the faculty of Understanding. 

 Think and remember that your right and title to interpret 

 the truths of revelation are as much bound and restricted by 

 the order of reverence and obedience to your maker and the 

 truths of God's Trinity as man's right to conquer and control 

 the Universe by Invention is bounded by the fates of Evolu- 

 tion. Do not forget you can use and misuse the powers you 

 are about to be given as you evolve the mind of Wisdom. They 

 will be as high and important as the responsibilities laid on 

 Christ when He came to grant the attributes of God the Mother 

 to Woman to enable her to give to man her powers of Love, 

 Sympathy, and Invention, without which he would never have 

 been able to conquer the world. Now that your turn has come, 

 and the duty of Evolution has placed upon your shoulders the 

 duty to take up the work of redemption where Christ dropped 

 it, in just the same manner as Evolution placed the duty on 

 the shoulders of Cain, Abel, Enos and Christ, to take it up 

 where God the Father dropped it when He created Adam and 

 Eve in the image of God's Trinity, it is now man's duty to 

 take up by Science the work of Christ and move it a stage 

 further. Remember it is the image of God's Trinity in Nature 

 that must prove or disprove the truth or falsehood of your 

 theories, the check to the correctness of which is the only 

 reliable keystone that will make a lasting bond in the bridge 

 from God to Man, and the evolution of it by the Aryan Races 

 is the one act of Evolution that places the Aryan-crossed races 

 above the Chinaman, Turk, Hun, South Sea Islander, or 

 Hottentot. 



The Epoch of Faith, as we have seen, was devoted to the 

 evolution of Matter and Body ; the Epoch of Hope is to perfect 

 Man's energy, courage and mind ; the Epoch of Charity is to 

 create his soul by the aid of Science, granting to him a fuller 

 understanding of the object for which he was created. As 

 near as I can calculate it by progressive ratios of logarithms, 

 it has taken from three hundred thousand to five hundred 

 thousand years to evolve his mind ; about one hundred and 

 fifty-six million years to evolve his body ; about two hundred 

 and fifty million years to evolve Animal from Plant Life ; five 

 to seven hundred thousand million years to evolve Matter, 

 Earth and Planets, and anywhere from fifteen to twenty 



