[plate 4]
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All bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following errors:
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1. that man has two real existing principles: viz: a body & a soul
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2. that energy call'd evil is alone from the body,& that reason,
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call'd good, is alone from the soul.
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3. that God will torment man in eternity for following his energies.
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But following contraries to these are true:
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1. man has no body distinct from his soul; for that call'd body is a portion
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of soul discern'd by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age.
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2. energy is the only life and is from the body
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and reason is the bound and outward circumference of energy.
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3. energy is eternal delight.
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[plates 5-6]
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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be
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restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the
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unwilling. And being restrain'd, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is
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only the shadow of desire. The history of this is written in Paradise
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Lost,& the governor or reason is call'd Messiah. and the original
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Archangel, or possessor of the command of heavenly host, is call'd the
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Devil or Satan, and his children are call'd Sin & Death. But in the book
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of Job, Milton's Messiah is call'd Satan. For this history has been
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adopted by both parties. It indeed appear'd to reason as if desire was
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cast out, but the Devil's account is, that the Messiah fell & formed a
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heaven of what He stole from the abyss. This is shewn in the gospel, where
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He prays to the Father to send the comforter, or desire, that reason may
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have ideas to build on, the Jehovah of the bible being no other than (the
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Devil den). he who dwells in flaming fire, know that after Christ's
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death, he became Jehovah. But in Milton, the father is destiny, the son, a
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ratio of the five senses,& the holy-ghost, vacuum! Note: the reason
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Milton wrote in ferrets when he wrote of angels & God. And at liberty when
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of devils & hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party
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without knowing it.
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The Voice Of The Devil
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| Ulver |
