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by the erring condemnation of mortal wisdom. It is only 

 perfectly in accord with His unerring plan, that as mankind 

 evolves higher orders of wisdom and governments, he should 

 do more and more by human intelligence to adjust and control 

 human action, and in so doing progress nearer and nearer to 

 the ultimate object of His creation viz., to act as the good 

 and faithful steward of his Divine Master, and so become a 

 self-constituted ruler of a self-conquered kingdom, subject to a 

 fee-simple of veneration to his creator. 



We now enter upon the second great departure of creation 

 during the Epoch of Hope, when man begins to comprehend 

 and put into practice divine revelation, the abstract teachings 

 religion has evolved, out of which is now slowly being made 

 visible to the imagination of mankind as fear makes him more 

 observant of the lessons of nature, he begins in a humble 

 way to realise that there is more to live for than his personal 

 wants of hunger, thirst and sleep. So from this onward he 

 starts to evolve a more practical order of control than religious 

 government, as out of it he develops state governments, 

 science, commerce and invention, which if less beautiful are 

 nevertheless more useful as modes to enforce, in time, higher 

 principles of wisdom. But even in this year of grace 1917 

 ignorance still predominates over scientific wisdom, so that 

 we must not be surprised that for the last twenty-five thousand 

 years religion, which plays on man's ignorance and credulity, 

 has been and still is, so far as the mass of humanity is con- 

 cerned, a more fitting and proper means of advancing his 

 mind, which even yet is not sufficiently highly evolved to 

 receive the soul of divine wisdom. There are other forces of 

 nature which are helping to develop the evolution of state 

 government, and to teach man self-control of his actions. 



So on this, the Eleventh Day of Government, which is to 

 be the first of the four last days of the Epoch of Hope, to the 

 elucidation of which I intend to devote this chapter, we find 

 human will arrives during these four days at its manhood, 

 and exerts palpable influence upon the course of evolution. 

 We also find that it commences to lay the foundation-stone of 

 our souls, by evolving law and order out of religious beliefs 

 and bigoted superstitions, the distorted realisation of divine 

 revelation by our imperfect minds during the previous ages, 

 through which fear and ignorance have led man blindly by the 



