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arrived, it was impossible for woman to exert very much 

 influence over the hard, cruel and stern will of her savage 

 spouse. But now under the diagonal influences of love, which 

 begin to influence him as he acquires more mind, and as in- 

 creased cold and hunger make their value more felt, religion 

 and redemption begin to sow the seeds of soul in his heart 

 and he begins to be influenced to a small degree by the attri- 

 butes of God the Soul. These influences of fear and religion 

 begin to develop greater constancy in marriage instead of 

 indiscriminate animal selection, particularly amongst the 

 northern and Aryan races, whose laws of Caste and social 

 superiority make monogamy possible. Woman is from hence- 

 forth to advance him along the course of civilisation and evo- 

 lution by combining with his animal courage the influences 

 of Thought, Imagination and Comprehension, that go to make 

 up the human mind (it will require the further development of 

 understanding to evolve his true soul in future ages yet to 

 come) ; yet with the aid of her redeemers she will now be able 

 to grant him Love, Sympathy and Mercy and Invention. 



This is to come about as woman's love, takes thought 

 to heaven and diagonally ascends to Soul, then diago- 

 nally descends back through Imagination and Comprehension 

 (see Tables I., II., III.), to the knowledge of God and the 

 conception of the truths of revelation. Thus she has now 

 attained the results of the development of man's life, will, 

 love and thought to a higher evolution of the human mind, 

 and thus man acquires the germ of soul in the seeds of religion. 

 For the perpendicular posture, which causes the electrical cur- 

 rent to descend lengthways instead of at right angles to his 

 spine, is now slowly evolving his powers of Imagination to 

 those of Comprehension, whilst the other animals, owing to 

 their horizontal posture, cannot evolve beyond the attribute 

 of Thought or instinct, sexual marriage and life. This has 

 placed man at the head of Creation for all time to come, but 

 he is now about to embark on a more extensive voyage, that of 

 acquiring the control of the Universe. 



The earth having now cooled below 140 degrees, all marked 

 changes of body and .shape are complete, and man alone has 

 been able to perfect his bodily powers of endurance sufficiently 

 to evolve a mind or soul capable of evolving religious thought, 

 or of comprehending the truths of divine revelation ; but this 



