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leaves of bigotry, but that the truth was there at all, to remain 

 hidden like the libraries of Babylon and Assyria for thou- 

 sands of years, without being lost or destroyed, until man has 

 advanced and evolved sufficiently for him to receive and 

 understand the revelations which will be slowly but clearly 

 made known to him through the advance of science, as he 

 evolves the powers of reason and perfect understanding, and 

 so gains a soul fit to receive them. The wonder is that 

 they should have been preserved in marvellous and miracu- 

 lous manner in the Bible and legends and fables of the past. 



Thus we find when we read Genesis from the Hypo- 

 thesis of God's Trinity, as also in other parts of the Bible, 

 that it is absolutely correct so far as the facts go ; the inter- 

 pretation alone is incorrect; and that when this key of the 

 hypothesis is used to unlock the doors of human understand- 

 ing, we find that science and evolution only tend to substan- 

 tiate these truths; and make their meanings more clear and 

 that even the order and sequence of the writing of Genesis cor- 

 responds with the order of evolution and the hypothesis of 

 this treatise, and that the mysteries of God's Trinity in 

 nature, of descent, and of the survival of the fittest, become 

 clear and make possible a logical, reasonable and understand- 

 able interpretation of the revelation contained in the parables, 

 legends and fables that lie therein, hidden, it is true, by piles 

 of superstition, which have in the past been just as necessary 

 a cloak to teachings of religion to make them palatable and 

 presentable to man's hitherto undeveloped mind, as our 

 clothes are a necessity to our being admitted into polite 

 society, although they may hide the true shape of our bodies ; 

 but it cannot be denied that they add to our comfort and 

 charm, so that the past teachings of religion added to its 

 charms and made it attractive to the infantile mind of man. 



If the truths of revelation had not been clothed in pretty 

 garb of parables, fables, and legends, and so made sweet and 

 mythical fairy tales of religious beliefs so as to make them 

 attractive, they would not have appealed to the undeveloped 

 mind of man in the past, throughout the childhood of his soul, 

 and he would have turned from them with disgust and with 

 scorn and disbelief. 



Proceeding along the course of the Bible, we find that the 

 creation of the world, the creation of angels, their fall and the 



