Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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When man admits there is no pleasure in sin, he has
When man admits there is no pleasure in sin, he has
begun to save himself.
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Contemplating history from every moral data, down
Contemplating history from every moral data, down
to the present, we learn the faith in Christ, Truth, that
caused our martyrs to be burned, and the rights of
man to be christened on a gallows, repeats itself in the
just suffering for the unjust; then how has God par-
doned sin? We all suffer because of sin, and must
until science destroys sin and its sufferings. Did the
martyrdom of John Brown make one of the crimes of
Jefferson Davis less, or less deserving its reward? What
awaits the God-inspired martyr is the crown of thorns
here, and the victor's palm hereafter; but what awaits
the pampered hypocrite, is the laurel here, and the
thorns there.
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The demonstration Jesus gave of God, did for the
The demonstration Jesus gave of God, did for the
world more than a problem wrought and explained in
mathematics does for the learner; it taught the human
race how to demonstrate aright the Principle, that is
God; and if this demonstration had been understood,
man would have reached the example of Jesus, and
solved his being harmoniously ere this. The martyr-
spirit is the stepping-stone from the human to the divine;
martyrs are the luminaries of Soul that go down to per-
sonal sense, like the sun to appear again in the ampli-
tude of their being, when sensuality shall give place to
spirituality, and the leaders' stand-point is reached.
Truth is self-conscious right that brings its own re-
ward, but not amid the smoke of battle is it seen, or
appreciated.
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The personal belief of God that holds Spirit person
The personal belief of God that holds Spirit person
instead of Principle, making Soul intelligent matter,
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and possessing all the tyranny and passion a belief of
and possessing all the tyranny and passion a belief of
Life in matter manifests, was the very error that cruci-
fied Jesus; and that to-day is shutting out the reign of
harmony. Jesus knew there was but one God, hence
that man's Intelligence was God, and not man; Princi-
ple, and not person; therefore, said he, "I and the
Father are one;" and because of this scientific state-
ment, and the demonstration it brought with it, the
rulers cried out, "Crucify him, he maketh himself as
God," "and what further witness need we against him."
To-day this very statement is met with the same oppo-
sition from sensualism it ever was, and why? Because
it cuts off right hands, and plucks out eyes by denying
personal sense; and lays the axe at the root of the tree,
cutting off the medium of all sin. God is perfect; and
if there be no other Intelligence, we can have no imper-
fection; the only way to destroy error is to divest it of
supposed Intelligence, by which it can give pain or
pleasure. Now to admit there is a separate Intelligence
from good, called evil, is the error that admits two
powers, namely, God, and devil, simultaneous, but
gives superiority and all worldly success to the latter;
this error is waning somewhat, and to-day his Satanic
majesty is not deemed so much a distinct individual as
a universal power. The next step in progress is to
learn there is no devil; that error and sin have no
Intelligence; the Scriptures deny aught but God, and
his creation; and assert there "was nothing made with-
out Him," while "out of the mouth of the most high
proceedeth not good and evil;" in other words, that
God never made a demon, for a pure fountain sends not
forth corrupt streams, and nothing but God is self