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only in a limited degree by the southern races, who did not 

 come in contact with the cold of the glacial periods, and who 

 only received one redeemer in place of three. This develop- 

 ment, which we are about to follow in this chapter, will show 

 us how the fifth marriage of God's Trinity, that of Soul, Life 

 and Knowledge, will produce Study and Religion. 



The powers of God's Trinity and its marriages, and 

 the test of the likeness to God in Nature by its trinity of forces, 

 must ever make Science subservient to revelation and religion, 

 but at the same time I will equally demonstrate the necessity 

 that Religion must not be too proud to be instructed and 

 reformed by science and evolution. I have already pointed out 

 that the truths of revelation have never been one moment 

 absent from creation. They have been, and many still are, 

 dormant, waiting till man's further development, through 

 stage after stage of evolution, gradually ripens them one by 

 one as his mind and soul become fit soil for their growth, when 

 the flowers of religious belief will ripen into the exquisite fruits 

 of a clear and unmystified revelation, and dropping off the tree 

 of God's Trinity will at last fall on the cultivated soil of man's 

 more perfect understanding, when he shall have cleared it of 

 the weeds of crime, superstition and bigotry, and made it fit 

 to nourish so choice and delicate a seed as true wisdom, like 

 unto the champac flower which the Brahmins say can bloom 

 alone in Paradise. And this is why, not only to nations but to 

 religions also, evolution is now, on the fifteenth day of Crea- 

 tion, upon which the world is just about to enter, sending its 

 angels through the skies to sound the judgment call of 

 " Peace to all men of good will," so that man may learn to 

 use without abuse, and so at last evolve his soul in the seven 

 days of Creation yet unborn. 



But the day we are now starting to review, the tenth day 

 of Creation, will usher into the world the birth of this mighty 

 revolution of mind, we call religion, in its first ugly infancy, 

 that of Idolatry, which will bloom into Christianity with the 

 birth of Christ, the world's third and last redeemer, in turn 

 to attain its perfect manhood of wisdom by the power of the 

 Holy Ghost taking birth in scientific expoundation of revela- 

 tion. Man, if not perfect in this direction, has already, by 

 this tenth day, grown to boyhood in the arts of sin, and so has 

 evolved his powers of perception between right and wrong 



