2i6 - THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



of the revelations of nature; so it was not till after Govern- 

 ment, War and Order had enabled civilisation to evolve with 

 the aid of infantile science, which is now coming into existence 

 on the Twelfth Day of Creation, the day after that of Govern- 

 ment, that the science of writing becomes an art. If my 

 reader will turn to Table II. he will see that the Seventh mar- 

 riage of the attribute of Imagination and Comprehension con- 

 ceives Understanding, which gives birth to Science on the 

 Twelfth Day; and if he will read along line nine in Table II. 

 he will find it reads Imagination, Comprehension and Under- 

 standing, which are the trinity of qualities that constitute the 

 soul of mankind ; and are we not right in looking upon the 

 birth of science as marking the real birth of wisdom, which is 

 to come into the life of creation or evolution and be conceived 

 in the soul of man as a result of this marriage ? Although the 

 likeness of God in his mind was created on the Seventh Day, 

 his soul was not born until Science began on the Twelfth. 



Nature, like the Chinese, counts life from the day of 

 conception, not of birth. Truly the father of Science is 

 Imagination and its Mother is Comprehension ; and if 

 the reader will proceed in the same manner with the next 

 line, or for that matter with every or any line of these tables, 

 he will find that they correspond with what has taken place in 

 the course of creation and evolution. So if he follows out the 

 same line of procedure, he will find that Understanding is the 

 father and that Comprehension is the mother of Invention, the 

 result of which marriage is Commerce, and that Understand- 

 ing, Comprehension and Invention are the three forces that 

 go to make up the creation and existence of Commerce, which 

 is to come into existence on the Thirteenth Day of Creation, 

 as our Tables predict. 



I will now briefly point out to my reader how the inter- 

 mingling of the two most important branches of the human race 

 (the third or black races I shall not trouble my reader with 

 the consideration of at all as they have had no redeemers, and 

 are therefore incapable of scarcely any advancement, nor have 

 they ever done anything to advance mankind above the level 

 of animals) the white and yellow races are destined to bring 

 about the evolution of Science, Commerce and Invention, which 

 will take us up to the present day of Existence. But before 

 doing so I wish to draw attention to the fact that these two 



