FINAL CHAPTER 



under mystic ritual. Our spine, so evolution teaches, is an 

 external growth that has incorporated our spinal cord, not a 

 creation of a new form of our spinal cord. It is the same, 

 in the way we will have to evolve future religions. We must 

 not destroy the past, we must incorporate it in a fresh evolu- 

 tion, not destroy it to create a new one in its place. For even 

 if in distant ages yet to come the religions of the future, like 

 our spine, entirely hide the religions of the past, so far as 

 rites and ceremonies are concerned, provided it also contains 

 the principal teachings and most important revelations of the 

 past, no great harm will be done, they will only become more 

 practical. We must take Christ with us, not go back to him. 

 We must strengthen religion by Science, not pull it to pieces 

 to build up science, or we shall be like the man who destroys 

 the foundations of his house because he wishes to build a second 

 storey on top of the existing ground floor. 



But we cannot cultivate the flower and neglect the roots 

 and stem, or the flower will die. I have shown that the leaves 

 of the tree of trinity are energy of civilisation, courage of 

 enterprise in Commerce, and Invention, Science and Wisdom. 

 The flowers are Love, Religion and Charity which are ulti- 

 mately to produce the seeds of Joy, Pleasure and Happiness, 

 which seeds when sown in the soil of Heaven will bloom again 

 throughout eternity as immortal souls. This is to be man's 

 last evolution, after which he will be able to live for all eternity 

 in Peace, Comfort and Content, having become wise enough 

 to control all abuse. The one object of his existence for which 

 he was created is that he may assist in bringing about this 

 evolution of wisdom ; therefore, let him study past evolution 

 that he may the better be able to bring this about. If read by 

 the interpretation of God's Trinity it will teach him to form 

 higher ideals of Peace, Mercy and Justice, and this will give 

 him a better harvest of happiness than he has in the past 

 reaped from the seeds he has sown, viz., Might, Greed and 

 Selfishness, War, Bigotry and Hate, and will enable him to 

 live in Joy, Comfort and Content, which is a better form of 

 existence than that of Wealth, Pride and Arrogance bought 

 at the price of War, Strife and Misery and held in the grip of 

 Crime, Intemperance, Dishonesty and Discontent, under the 

 curses of Fear, and Remorse for pleasures bought at the price 

 of meanness, dishonesty and intrigue. 



