THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION 175 



the inheritance your fathers and mothers have bequeathed you, 

 by trying to inculcate in your children a veneration for God and 

 His Trinity, for those whose acts he rewards (you may not be 

 able to understand why) by placing them above you in social 

 power or superiority in wealth ; nevertheless he has given 

 you and your children the powers to aim at winning these 

 advantages as also an immortal existence and teach them to 

 direct their lives aright. Try and be wise rather than rich 

 if you wish to succeed, and if you are not vicious or selfish 

 the riches will follow provided they are advantageous to your 

 increase of virtue, but remember mankind is a long way off 

 being wise yet, so you must not look upon it as an easy con- 

 tract, or wonder if you fail to merit riches as well as success. 

 Fight bravely on so that your children may win them even 

 though they may be denied to you. 



Having now shown the most probable manner in which 

 religion has been evolved, and how the place due to it is 

 correctly the Tenth Day of Evolution, I have done all that is 

 required for this treatise. But I may here remark that the 

 Thirteenth Day should, by the numeral rules of evolution 

 which allot three days for the conception of any evolution of 

 soul, be the day of the next birth of a further evolution of like 

 order. That would make the Thirteenth Day, the day of the 

 birth of Human Understanding, and if we turn to our tables, 

 we find commerce marks the first age of Understanding. 



Perfect Understanding of right is not to be vouchsafed to 

 man until evolution is complete, when man is to start to be- 

 come a religion unto himself, which is the epoch we are about 

 to commence to-day. Then taking another period of three 

 days, we arrive at the age of pleasure which is to be marked 

 by man having learnt to prevent crime. And so we complete 

 mathematically two epochs of evolution of the trinity of Reli- 

 gion and the trinities of Soul. Taking another period of three 

 days brings us up to another stage of religion and to number 

 Nineteen, which marks the age of perfect religious Wisdom, 

 and is the final trinity or trinity of trinities of Religion, and 

 the final aim of all religion, for when perfect wisdom rules 

 mankind this earth becomes Heaven, and can religion do more 

 than gain mankind possession of Heaven? I shall, therefore, 

 show but one more illustration of the manner in which religious 

 evolutions are influenced by state governments in the course 



MM 



