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ously there had only been the influence of God the Father 

 and God the Mother at work in the production of the Universe, 

 and man's body up to the Seventh Day kept its records. 



This alters when Spirit comes into creation, for 

 God being a spirit could have no body, and material and animal 

 existence having no soul, they could not be a perfect likeness 

 of God and could have no Spirit existence. Hence it was im- 

 possible that there could be any true likeness to the psychical 

 forces of God in man's body or in the universe, except the 

 one likeness pointed out in Genesis, the likeness of the male 

 and female sexes of God's Trinity to the male and female 

 creations of body, and such dim semblances as electri- 

 city depicts. But the Seventh Day marked the first great 

 psychical departure of evolution, when God the Holy Ghost 

 gave to the dawning mind of man its first ray of the light of 

 wisdom, as a glimmer of Understanding, the fourth attribute 

 of the trinity of soul, is now conceived in the mind of man, 

 so granting to him a will that could act in opposition to the 

 laws of nature, and could conceive in some slight way the 

 difference between right and wrong, and so make sin possible. 

 Sin, the greatest of all blessings conferred by God, for without 

 sin it would have been impossible to merit heaven or evolve 

 virtue ; and as it also created crime it now calls for 

 government to control that inborn tendency to err on the 

 part of mankind, which was to give him the capabilities to do 

 wrong, that he might evolve virtue by doing right, and so 

 ultimately merit the reward of immortality. This is the 

 quality which has placed him above all else in creation. 



So long as his body was evolving, there was no image 

 of God in its material development, only the reflection 

 of the dormant and invisible influences of the Omnipotent and 

 Invisible power of the Almighty, by such evolutions as nerves, 

 brain and electrical phenomena in creation and a reflection 

 of the guiding love of the Almighty Mother of the Universe. 

 From this onwards man is to test and destroy the weakness 

 of his physique by the means of sin, so as to make it strong 

 enough to support a mind. Thus up to the Eleventh Day of 

 Creation, fear of the Invisible power of God clothed in super- 

 stitious dread of the awakening presentiment, that the revela- 

 tions of Nature inspired, the knowledge of which could be 

 attained only by faith and obedience t6 religious teachings 



