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necessary to beautify and make interesting the truths of reve- 

 lation, which his want of understanding prevented him from 

 being able to fully comprehend. It was, therefore, neces- 

 sary to appeal to the only power he had evolved up to that 

 time, namely, the power of superstition, which the male pro- 

 perties of Imagination and Thought, and the female properties 

 of Fear and Love created, and which were to produce his 

 reverence of religion by appealing to the supernatural creations 

 of his brain that fear had evolved. Hence in all past religions 

 these factors were the sole and only foundation on which 

 religion could be based, as the impartial development of man's 

 mind necessitated that its teachings were made interesting by 

 parables and fables which would pander to his superstitions. 



With this introduction I have led the reader up to the point 

 where it is possible to trace the course of religion through its 

 evolution from Imagination to Fear, from Fear to Love, from 

 Love to Thought, from Thought to Reverence, and from 

 Reverence to Belief; and in the Epoch of Charity, just be- 

 ginning to dawn, from Belief to Understanding, from Under- 

 standing to Right Thought, and from Abuse to Use, from 

 War to Peace, from Peace to Comfort and the destruction of 

 Crime, from Comfort to Content and Charity, from Charity 

 to the Joy, Pleasure and the Happiness of Heaven on Earth. 



It is not my intention in this treatise to follow any but the 

 most concise course' of evolution and logic, and to avoid 

 details as far as possible, to pass from stage to 

 stage, picking up only those side issues that tend 

 to demonstrate the main issue, the feminine gender of 

 God's Trinity and the theory shown herein of the withdrawal 

 and the return of the personalities of God's Trinity in the 

 course of evolution and the connection between the two. So I 

 have shown the manner in which man has most probably 

 evolved Imagination, Comprehension and the dawn of Under- 

 standing, and is now fit to evolve Religion and Study. We 

 now find the increased difficulties of his severe combat with 

 nature have evolved fears and superstition which make him 

 susceptible to religious influences. As mentioned in the 

 last chapter, man is now driven to believe in a superior power 

 possessed by the elements about him, and therefore he at- 

 tributes to the sun, moon, stars, wind and water the divine 

 attributes that belong to God. The Spirit of Knowledge of 



