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knowledge of revelation until there is no longer any use for 

 the old. As I have shown elsewhere, my Hypothesis and 

 evolution both point out the necessity of the mystery of 

 redemption to enable man to transmit some of the attributes 

 of God the Mother and some of the qualities of woman. These 

 qualities are the foundation stones of all that is refined and 

 beautiful in civilisation and which alone make practicable the 

 Christianity which Christ came from Heaven to improve by 

 His religious teachings, and without which all the most 

 refined characteristics of our souls would otherwise have been 

 as tightly closed a book to the minds of man as the character- 

 istics of woman are, and always will be, and as the higher 

 faculties of man's wisdom are to the minds of woman. 



Now it seems to me to be improbable that future 

 revelations, the gifts of God the Soul, whose three final attri- 

 butes are to complete man's powers of understanding divine 

 revelation will be ushered into the world by any miracle, as 

 were the attributes of God the Mother by the work of redemp- 

 tion. Most probably they are to come about in the 

 ordinary course of the evolution of the brain of man as he 

 evolves a mind of more perfect understanding of right and 

 wrong, as came the early dawn of religion through the evolu- 

 tion of Imagination, and that the promised descent of the 

 Holy Ghost will arise in the form of more enlightened ideas 

 in the brain of man, somewhat as this Hypothesis has become 

 known to me. Soul being a male personality of God, no 

 revolutionary action of the laws of evolution are necessary 

 to bring about the acquirement of such alterations in the soul 

 of man, only in the souls of women ; and it is highly doubtful 

 if the acquirement by women of too high a standard of wisdom 

 would be conducive to an increase of human happiness or of 

 feminine loveliness ; but I am rather inclined to think that it 

 would decrease the perfection of the qualities of love and 

 sympathy which are the most beautiful stars in her diadem. 

 Under these circumstances there is no call for the redemption 

 of woman. Even immortality cannot make her a more perfect 

 angel than she is. I know I ought to be able to quote a 

 chapter and verse in the Bible for the substantiation of the 

 following belief, but I do not remember where exactly to put 

 my finger on the particular verse, but the following quotation 



