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reins of ignorance without at the same time replacing them 

 by some stronger form of control ; this threatens to destroy the 

 past evolutions of Love, Unity, and Charity that religion has 

 been endeavouring to teach, in a whirlpool of socialism, 

 materialism and atheism far more dreadful than the supersti- 

 tion, idolatry and heathen materialism that gave birth to the 

 earliest forms of religious beliefs. It is this conviction that 

 appeals so strongly to my mind, and the hope that this treatise 

 by illustrating that it is impossible to separate God and His 

 Trinity from His Creation, man included, that has emboldened 

 me to publish the extraordinary revelation I have received. 



And I cannot pass on without stating that, in my 

 opinion, it is to this tendency to materialistic doctrine that 

 we owe much of the social, commercial and industrial unrest, 

 for the existence of which unrestrained liberty, ignorance and 

 lack of wisdom can alone account. For the age of wisdom is 

 not as yet evolved, and there are very few in whose minds the 

 possibility to reason correctly and to act with decision has 

 even dawned, let alone been evolved. It is only our inordinate 

 pride, that makes us blind to our follies, which leads us to 

 presume that we have yet arrived at the manhood of wisdom. 

 But just as in life when we are nearing manhood and are only 

 hobbledehoys, is the time when we are most prone to go to the 

 bad, because our individual wills are now coming to maturity 

 and resent the controlling hand of our parents, and have not 

 yet been taught by the world the folly of our childish love of 

 having our own way, whereas contact with the world of men 

 will teach each individual to find his own level and his right 

 place of utility in the world. So now that nations and reli- 

 gions have released their past hand-grasp on the mass of their 

 subjects, hitherto held by the grip of ignorance which has 

 been the mainstay of both government and religion in the past, 

 we find the world is inclined to run amuck. 



But the time has arrived in the course of evolution when 

 science must open up to the knowledge of governments and 

 religion the fact that they must work together by striving to 

 produce a more perfect development of self-control and 

 brotherly love and unity in the division of work and of the 

 means of the production of livelihoods, now that man is evolv- 

 ing Understanding which will assist him to make a better use 

 of the world that he is fast learning to conquer. The 



