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and One Creator, and the Trinity of God, which makes three 

 of the seven most important revelations of God. These are : 

 First In a spiritual creator of all things. 

 Second That there is one God and only one God who rules 

 all things and our fates. 



Third In the existence of the Trinity of God. 

 Fourth In everlasting life and immortality of our existence 

 and souls. 



Fifth In the laws of descent, the survival of the fittest, and 

 that success in this world is the reward of virtues per- 

 formed, not a right to which we have any claim, so that 

 our aim must be to merit such rewards and to pass such 

 merit on to our children. 



Sixth Is the necessary outcome of the preceding one, namely, 

 that we owe all to the God who has created us, and that 

 our recompense will be measured by the utility we are to 

 the community, and that our lives are entirely in the hands 

 of fate, so we must accept with resignation our lot in life, 

 at the same time doing all we can to improve it by fair and 

 honest means. 



Seventh To place our duty to God and our neighbour before 

 temporary and personal advantages, confident that any 

 good we do to others will in time revert to us and to our 

 children. Remembering that God has given us the power 

 to perpetuate our souls, so we must be careful lest we 

 condemn our children to lose this power. 



The seventh we have yet to evolve in the future Epoch of 

 Charity. It is the consideration of the good of others before 

 our own, and is the mainspring that drives the clock of evolu- 

 tion. It is the greatest revelation, the teaching of which to 

 mankind is the principal object of nature, and the knowledge 

 of which is the last piece of wisdom that is to complete the 

 creation of a soul in mankind. These seven truths are the 

 seven most important foundation stones of all religions, and 

 we have now traced the course of the evolution of the first six, 

 so far as by the process of inverse logic it is possible to con- 

 jecture the probable course of their early evolution. 



The belief in them is now to be taken by the Mosaic people. 



