i6o THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 

 Now, to resume by comparison, and also to prove that the 

 marriages of the table of Trinity places religion in Table III. 

 in its right place and order and sequence, let us further 

 analyse the developments of the age. It is this age that by 

 its cold and privation is to develop man's hardihood and to 

 produce a body capable and powerful enough to sustain his 

 mind, and so fit him to realise the truths of revelation, by 

 evolving in his brain greater powers of Imagination, Com- 

 prehension and Invention, and so fit him to obtain a more 

 enlightened soul. It is -also destined by wars and strife 

 to enable him to attain a power of will by which he can master 

 himself. Hence we find that he is now driven back to 

 Northern India and Persia. Here he now evolves the first 

 conceptions of Immortality, the belief in One God, and One 

 God only, and the triple personality of God's Trinity, the 

 possession of which is to stamp the Aryan Races for ever as 

 the highest evolution of soul in the future. Also the truth that 

 like begets like, or the evolution of the fittest by the 

 establishment of caste and other hereditary customs amongst 

 all branches of the Aryan Races. 



It often appears to our minds that the Almighty is at 

 fault in the manner he selects to bring about the course of 

 evolution, because being unable to comprehend all the rules 

 of the game, we found our reasoning upon individual 

 failures, and do not realise that they are necessary moves 

 in the game ; like a person who does not know the respective 

 value of the chessmen would commit the error of counting 

 the loss of a pawn as the same value as the loss of a queen 

 or castle. These individual failures make the universal 

 successes, just as in chess the judicious loss of a pawn often 

 saves the game. In the course of the evolution of religion 

 at this particular stage of creation, this is most apparent, 

 for it so often produces so many crimes and false teachings 

 that we feel inclined to doubt the truth of its dogmas and 

 condemn it for the crimes it produces, because we cannot 

 comprehend that these very errors will ultimately produce 

 its highest virtues. As we now follow the course of evolu- 

 tion in its ups and downs of progress and retrogression, we 

 find that the strife commences between prophets and patri- 

 archs and the kings and rulers. Both these potentates are 

 now candidates for supreme rule, and so it dawns on the 



