THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION 189 



Hypothesis I am endeavouring to explain, which has been the 

 extraordinary outcome of the marriages of the attributes of 

 God's Trinity as demonstrated in Tables I., II. and III., and 

 which the modern comprehension of radio-activity substanti- 

 ates. 



Hence cherish your past beliefs, if you want my 

 advice, but do not be too narrow-minded to improve upon 

 them by scientific discovery. Evolution brings the Spirit of 

 God the Holy Ghost within the comprehension of your soul, 

 and into the reach of your mind and of your understanding, 

 but be careful not to destroy the house already built in which 

 the wisdom of God is now commencing to abide. Build a more 

 majestic outer wall and modernize the windows so as to admit 

 a greater amount of the sunshine of the light of divine revela- 

 tion into your soul. We cannot all own houses of the 

 same size or exactly alike, for we have not, and never will 

 have souls that will admit of the same containing capacity 

 of the light of divine revelation or wisdom, or be able to 

 conduct our individual lives on exactly the same lines of 

 virtue, but must always suit them to our brain power and con- 

 sequent social position so as to adjust them to the varied 

 occupations of mankind. 



As I pointed out elsewhere, when God builds our bodies 

 He does not destroy their previous plans, so let us please 

 try to copy Him. You cannot get a better model and 

 do not let new beliefs destroy more of the past ones 

 than you can help, and realise that religion is the 

 soul of virtue and must ever do more than knowledge 

 to make us virtuous, because it is part of education ; but know- 

 ledge and science are the manures that are to perfect its 

 growth, so do not stint it. Religion is a crop that will stand 

 a lot of the manure of further enlightenment before it can be 

 understood by the finite mind of man, for its boundaries are 

 those of infinity, and man's mind is finite. 



