not the Law-maker!

Could the law exist if it were

not made! Are not these all pure spiritual objects, consequently the only fit objects of adoration. Christ says, "I am perfect Man and perfect God!"—that is, the λóyos incarnate. But, to worship the body and blood of Christ is as gross idolatry as can be committed by the most savage tribes. It is deifying an object of SENSE instead of adoring an idea of REASON. "I and my Father are one; I am the λóyos, the word, the 'DOCTRINE,' which ever constituted a part of my Father, who is God! Hence I am the Son of God, begotten before all worlds-not made, being of the substance of the Father, who is a perfectly pure Spirit, or the infinite intelligence personified; yet distinct from my Father, in having descended on Earth, or in being incarnate, but always in communion with him through the Holy Spirit of connexion between us." Hence arises the irrefragable doctrine of the TRINITY IN UNITY God the Father; God the Son; and God the Holy Ghost- and yet there are not three Gods but only ONE GOD, consisting of three persons coeternal and coequal. "So that I am in my Father and my Father is in me"-which implies the spirit of union. or connexion between us.

Most truly, indeed, may the "Bible" be called the Christian's Treasury; and if we only strictly adhere to the plan laid down, of separating those symbols which raise pure spiritual ideas- true constituents of DocTRINE—from the symbols of impure material sensations -true representatives of doubtful HISTORY-long, indeed, may we draw from this everlasting treasury, without exhausting the sacred wealth. By this mode of diving into the spirit of truth, we shall always perceive that the only source of pure precept is REASON, and the territory of discordant opinion is SENSE. The force with which the ideas of REASON, when purified from every thing sensual, enter the heart, cannot fail to improve our moral conduct; while all wrangling, contention, and strife, about discordant opinions on Religion will ever be utterly useless; because, from their very nature they are interminable, being founded on recounted sensations, or the affections of SENSE.

The benefits arising from this mode of treating the "Sacred Volume" are incalculable. In the first place, by proceeding on scientific principles, we accomplish the glorious task of erecting a Sacred Science, the "SCIENCE OF RELIGION," which, by producing perfect unanimity among men, shuts out for ever the possibility

of disputing on the subject of RELIGION. Secondly, it proves scientifically the words of our Redeemer that "the Kingdom of Heaven is within you"-for the spring of all moral actions is reverence for the MORAL Law, that law implanted in our REASON by our Maker, and revealed to man by his Son, Jesus Christ. Thirdly, this Sacred Science proves that there can be no other Religion than that of Christ; for, that being the true one, there can be no contradiction in truth. Fourthly, it shows that all deviations from the "DIVINE REVELATION" are false and spurious religions- nay, abominable Superstitions; and all good men ought to unite their efforts not only to suppress these frauds on mankind, but never to rest till they are entirely exterminated. It is foretold in the "Scriptures" that a day will come. when a " NEW AND ETERNAL GOSPEL" will take place. This prophecy evidently alludes to the advances made in enlightenment, when men's minds shall proceed so scientifically that, instead of occupying themselves with speculation, dispute, and controversy, they will devoutly rest their faith on the precepts of the "DIVINE REVELATION," and practise the sublime morality of Jesus.

Our Saviour has indeed denounced the deepest and blackest curse upon the head of him who is under the

influence of superstition

that degrading departure

from the true spirit of the Gospel. Thus saith the

Redeemer "Wherefore I unto you, say

all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost-this shall not be forgiven. For the HOLY GHOST will teach you what you OUGHT to do and what you OUGHT to say. It shall not be forgiven him neither in this world neither in the world to come." For CONSCIENCE, that Holy Spirit of communion between man and his Maker, is entirely in our own keeping; and if we are not honest to ourselves can we be honest to others! The first fruit of "Superstition" is to pretend to believe what we can neither conceive nor comprehend — evidently then a DOGMA. And is this to form the foundation of Religion? - Certainly not of the "RELIGION OF CHRIST," which is the "RELIGION OF REASON." Here whatever remains unexplained is not understood, consequently not Rational. Hence true Religion cannot be founded on a DOGMA, but on a syllogism approved by CONSCIENCE.

To deify any material object is not only to be guilty of the grossest Superstition and Idolatry but is actually breaking the commandment of the "Book" itself:

"Thou shalt not bow down and worship any graven The very

image, or any thing that is on earth.” "Scriptures" denounce this Idolatry. But to worship

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as a God the man Christ is forbidden by our Saviour"

himself, who says: "Call ye not me good whom ye see; no one is good but my Father in heaven, whom ye see not." Christ also says: "I am perfect man, but the DOCTRINE I preach is not from myself but from my heavenly Father." Of its divinity and purity no one can doubt; because it is not only confirmed by, but actually founded in, REASON. Here, then, we are expressly forbidden by the founder of Christianity to consider his mortal body as a God, because it is an object of SENSE, a thing wholly unfit to be worshipped and reverenced as a God. What a confirmation does this afford of the correctness of the present division of the "Scriptures " into DOCTRINE and HISTORY!

A complete knowledge of the strongly marked and absolute difference between REASON and SENSE can never be sufficiently dwelt on, as the only perfect cure for Superstition. REASON is a faculty which acts of itself. a spontaneity — whence originate all its laws, with the "MORAL LAW" at their head; all of which

are of divine origin. Hence this Spiritual Faculty is