(plate 4)
All bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following errors:1. that man has two real existing principles: viz: a body & a soul2. that energy call'd evil is alone from the body,
& that reason,call'd good, is alone from the soul.3. that God will torment man in eternity for following his energies.
But following contraries to these are true:1. man has no body distinct from his soul; for that call'd body is a portionof soul discern'd by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age.2. energy is the only life and is from the bodyand reason is the bound and outward circumference of energy.3. energy is eternal delight.(plates 5-6)
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to berestrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs theunwilling. And being restrain'd, it by degrees becomes passive, till it isonly the shadow of desire. The history of this is written in Paradise
Lost,
& the governor or reason is call'd Messiah. and the original
Archangel, or possessor of the command of heavenly host, is call'd the
Devil or Satan, and his children are call'd Sin & Death. But in the bookof Job, Milton's Messiah is call'd Satan. For this history has beenadopted by both parties. It indeed appear'd to reason as if desire wascast out, but the Devil's account is, that the Messiah fell & formed aheaven of what He stole from the abyss. This is shewn in the gospel, where
He prays to the Father to send the comforter, or desire, that reason mayhave ideas to build on, the Jehovah of the bible being no other than (the
Devil den). he who dwells in flaming fire, know that after Christ'sdeath, he became Jehovah. But in Milton, the father is destiny, the son, aratio of the five senses,
& the holy-ghost, vacuum! Note: the reason
Milton wrote in ferrets when he wrote of angels & God. And at liberty whenof devils & hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's partywithout knowing it.
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