2i8 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



Religion. So Comprehension now produced Government in place 

 of Religion, which had preceded it as a more elementary and 

 less perfect form of self-control, requiring less knowledge to 

 permit of its utility, and Government now calls for more 

 wisdom to make its execution effective by increasing mercy and 

 restraining destruction. 



About 3000 B.C. Commerce celebrates its conception and the 

 Thirteenth Day of Creation begins to dawn on the world's 

 history. We now find that Science and Commerce begin to 

 aspire for the rule of the world, as well as the veteran heroes, 

 Religions and Governments. About the years 3000 to 5000 

 B.C. these new combatants create the earliest forms of trade 

 and barter, and so by the greater temptations they offer to 

 the god of avarice, intensify war and strife as the second Aryan 

 migration by the intermingling of the Alpine races with the 

 Seminole branches of the Mongolian race ; and Religion, 

 Government, Science and War combine to launch the ship of 

 Commerce upon the waters of the Black Sea and the Mediter- 

 ranean, where Commerce begins to thrive and flourish in exact 

 proportion as the Aryan blood increases amongst the southern 

 races of mankind. Thus the influences of their dual redemp- 

 tion become an active force in creating the results that the 

 attributes of God the Mother have given birth to. 



Even to-day we find the difference that exists where the 

 conquering power of God's Trinity is carried by the Aryan 

 races with this marked difference, that it is the most progres- 

 sive and that it does not destroy past civilisation as it advances ; 

 but where the conquering forces are of Mongolian predominance 

 they cannot advance without leaving devastation and destruc- 

 tion in their wake, and showing cruelty and want of mercy in 

 their acts. As witness of this, we may take the present war 

 where the ranks of the Allied forces all represent the inter- 

 mingled races, and their opponents, the Mongolian races, are 

 represented by their enemies ; another example is the upheaval 

 in India somewhere between 3000 and 10000 B.C. that destroyed 

 early Buddhism ; and the Mahometan, and Hun and Vandal 

 conquests of Europe, all of which are so many contests for 

 their respective forms of civilisation. We find that as these 

 Aryan migrations take place, they increase, by their inter- 

 mingling, the powers of control and government and honesty, 

 both in laws and order, and add Science and Invention to the 



