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Revelation is not yet possessed by him, but has been dormant 

 from the commencement of time in his sleeping soul and the 

 sleeping soul of all creation before him. This becoming 

 active, he now begins to endow the forms and shapes about him 

 with the divinity that his slumbering knowledge of revelation, 

 now trying to awaken and form some tangible existence, has 

 conjured up by the aid of his newly-acquired faculty of Ima- 

 gination. For the gift of Comprehension has not yet been 

 completely vouchsafed to him, so the existence of one God 

 and his Trinity is still unknown to him. Hence, in his en- 

 forced ignorance, he makes gods of all around him and super- 

 stitiously worships them. Yet the knowledge that there is a 

 superior power to which he must submit is now becoming 

 apparent to his dawning soul. Hence the mother, by using 

 the superstitious dread she can now implant in her children, 

 finds she can gain more influence over them to bring them 

 into subjection and by so doing she is able to exert some 

 influence to soften their savage instincts and evolve some feel- 

 ing of love and sympathy within their hearts, and so overcome 

 the cruelty of their natures. For the reader must realise that 

 it was the virtue of cruelty. 



THE VIRTUE OF CRUELTY : I use the word virtue 

 here, not Crime, advisedly see the explanation of Virtue and 

 Crime in Book I., viz., that circumstances decide between right 

 and wrong. So at this stage of man's creation it is cruelty 

 that did most (under the everlasting laws that govern the sur- 

 vival of the fittest) to enable the superior races to triumph over 

 the inferior ones, and by slavery to produce the necessary 

 evolution of persistent labour. Thus her offspring becomes 

 less cruel and more affectionate to her than man had been to 

 woman in the past. Do not forget that all the attributes of 

 God the Mother are transmitted only through woman to the 

 souls or minds of future women, and could not be transmitted 

 from father to grandson, only from mother to grand-daughter, 

 until after the redemption of mankind. But the properties 

 of will and mind, which are attributes of God the Father and 

 of God the Soul, man was able to evolve without supernatural 

 assistance. In the same way the two attributes of the two male 

 personages of God's Trinity are only transmitted from father 

 to daughter, not to grand-daughter, so cannot be transmitted 

 to her female offspring. 



