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and perpetual love of God and your neighbour, and the 

 most perfect wisdom of which you are capable (I say of 

 which you are capable, for absolutely perfect wisdom I take 

 to be a prerogative of God that man is only to receive in a 

 partial degree just as his invisibility, which is only partial as 

 his mind and soul only, not his body, are invisible) if you 

 would hope in some form or another, either in your own 

 life or in the immortal life of those who come after you, to in- 

 crease for ever the infinitely eternally increasing measure 

 of Joy, Pleasure and Happiness of those souls that fight 

 bravely on to gain utility, love and wisdom and energy. 



All three are necessary, for extinct species had 

 utility but nevertheless are extinct because they lacked love 

 and wisdom. And in this way you must not stop where Christ 

 stopped, you must ever strive to go on into the future, helping 

 to evolve the futurity of Evolution, to contribute your mite 

 to the perfection of Evolution as you learn day by day to 

 sin without violence to God or nature and your fellow-men, 

 and to excel in Use, Love and Wisdom. Thus you will finally 

 learn during the existence of your soul in the future lives 

 of your children, the supreme enjoyment of eternal Joy, 

 Pleasure and Happiness in the infinite creation from which you 

 sprang, of which you are a part no matter how finite or in- 

 significant, and of which you will eternally remain, as you 

 eternally have been, a real living particle, unless by repeated 

 failures you lose your right to existence in creation. 



Your right of existence, by being condemned to eternal 

 degradation and so lose your life and soul for eternity, 

 and receive the final damnation of all unfit particles 

 of creation that become useless ; lose Love, Utility, or 

 Wisdom, which alone are virtue, by being condemned there- 

 after to be a drop of blood in some animal or bird or insect, an 

 atom of plant, rock, stone or sand, or still less finite particle 

 of gas, or mote in some passing ray of sunshine or putrefying 

 vegetable parasite, and so return for all eternity to the infinity 

 of dust from which you sprang. But, ah ! how infinitely more 

 despicable, for from henceforth you will be doomed for an in- 

 finity of time to have lost all chance of semblance to your 

 God, now you have lost it for ever but with what an awful 

 difference ! Then for a time only you were without the know- 



