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account for results which we would easily understand if we 

 had sufficient knowledge to be able to define the limits that 

 distinguish between the spiritual and physical forces by which 

 the Infinite Creator governs the finite creation. But as we 

 begin to realise that ethereal waves are the forces that control 

 physical action, we will get a more enlightened idea of cause 

 and effect. Hence when a marriage or intermingling, so to 

 speak, is effected between the waves of the attributes of ether 

 with one of the male personalities of God the Father or God 

 the Soul with the waves of the attributes of God the Mother, 

 different forms of existence become active instead of passive 

 forces in nature. This is the explanation my hypothesis would 

 advance as the solution of the laws that govern the ethereal 

 forces that agitate the activity of electric energies which 

 create physical and material activities and chemical construc- 

 tions, when the ethereal waves of God the Father and God the 

 Mother combine to produce new substances. In like manner 

 when the waves of the seven attributes of God the Mother 

 combine their forces with those of the Soul, mental or 

 psychological evolutions are produced by such marriages or 

 intermingling of ethereal waves or forces in place of physical 

 evolutions. Thus sound, nerve and electrical vibrations would 

 be waves produced in this manner, just as light would come 

 under the results of the waves of God the Father and 

 chemistry those of God the Mother. Christ tried to give us 

 a hint of this when he said My Father is the God of Life. 

 He would have been put down as a fool two thousand years 

 ago if he had said It is needful that I leave you or the God of 

 Electricity, the Paraclete will not come to you ; for in those 

 days people understood no more about electricity than they 

 did about the Paraclete, steam engines, railways, flying ma- 

 chines, submarines or any of our modern inventions, any of 

 which would, two thousand years ago, have been flouted as the 

 conceptions of a disordered mind. This is one of the reasons 

 why we will have to reconstruct our religious views if we wish 

 to make religion a practical force in the control of our daily 

 lives. For it is just as foolish to maintain that the teachings 

 of past religions must not be altered, as it would be to try to 

 win the present war by storming the German trenches, 

 equipped with modern artillery, with the battering-rams of 

 Julius Caesar. 



