ig8 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



will, under conditions of Peace, be able to evolve the power 

 to truly understand the mystery of God's Trinity, and so 

 devote the last six days of creation to the greater fight of 

 conquering himself and his vices till he shall, by learning to 

 use, not abuse nature, make this earth of ours a true heaven. 



On the Twenty-first Day he will become fit to receive 

 his heritage of Immortality, an immortal child of an immortal 

 parent when he shall have completed the likeness in 

 his soul of the God who created him. Some of the concurrent 

 evolutions of this day of government are those of language 

 and writing and history. There was no call for these evolu- 

 tions during all the previous course of creation. For 

 the origin of our characteristics must be sought for, not in 

 the environs of the different races of to-day, but much further 

 back in the environs of tens of thousands of years ago when 

 his mind was in its infancy. God never permits a new 

 evolution to commence till he has prepared the ground 

 to receive the seed, we find He has not allowed history to be 

 evolved until eleven out of the twenty-one graces or attributes 

 are evolved. Until more than half of the forces have 

 become motive agencies in nature, so slight will be their 

 influence on the evolution of man's soul that there is no need 

 to preserve a record of their details, order or sequence, as too 

 great knowledge of them would have prevented the evolution 

 of the evils, that were necessary to produce the lower orders 

 of sin, out of which the lower orders of virtue were to be 

 evolved, if the course of creation was to be continued on the 

 same plan its builder had first designed. 



I now turn to my work with a greater feeling of incom- 

 petency, for having come to the place in evolution where man's 

 power commences to assert its right to govern in 

 conjunction, and to a small extent, in opposition, to the power 

 of God, the difficulty of defining the evolution of the con- 

 current forces at work and comparing them to the laws of 

 evolution is less clear, for hitherto I have only had to follow 

 these forces travelling in parallel lines. Now I have to follow 

 two or three antagonistic forces, now at war, now working 

 hand in hand, to bring about an intermediate course accept- 

 able to both combatants. I must therefore ask the reader 

 to grant me greater mercy in his criticisms, and not be too 

 hard in his judgments if, for want of time and opportunity to 



