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THE VOICE OF THE
DEVIL
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 Soul.
2. 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 the following Contraries to these are True.
1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that call'd Body is a portion of 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 Body and Reason is the bound or outward
circumference of Energy.
3. Energy is Eternal Delight.
Those who restrain desire, do so
because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer of reason usurps its
place & governs the unwilling.
And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
The history of this written in Paradise Lost, & the Governor of Reason is call'd
Messiah.
And the original Archangel or possessor of the command of the heavenly host, is call'd the
Devil or Satan and his children are call'd Sin & Death.
But in the Book of Job Miltons Messiah is call'd Satan.
For this history has been adopted by both parties.
It indeed appear'd to Reason as if Desire was cast out, but the Devils account is that the
Messiah fell, & formed a heaven 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 may have Ideas to build on, the Jehovah of the Bible being no other than he
who dwells in flaming fire.
Know that after Christs death, he became Jehovah.
But in Milton' the Father is
Destiny, the Son, a Raio of the five senses, & the Holy-ghost, Vacuum!
Note. The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty
when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devils party without
knowing it.
A MEMORABLE FANCY
As I was walking among the fires
of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and
insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs; thinking that as the sayings used in a
nation, mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell, shew the nature in Infernal wisdom
better than any description of buildings or garments,
When I came home: on the abyss of the five senses, where a flat sided steep frowns over
the present world, I saw a mighty Devil folded in black clouds, hovering on the sides of
the rock, with corroding fires he wrote the following sentence now percieved by the minds
of men, & read by them on earth.
How do you know but
ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?
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