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combinations ultimate in man. By this theory matter is represented more wise and capable than man, the head and perfection of Nature. Can men devise, form a globe, and bid it forth amid revolving orbs? Can all known created beings form one star, and cause it to roll along the galaxy on high? Why should they not, if the culmination of Nature?-Nature progressed? Or, to descend, can man plant the Northern mountains in the Southern sea? smother Etna, and make vernal the eternal winter of the Poles? Can he adorn Sahara's burning sands with the floral mantle of the fertile lawn? Or hush the raging tempest? quiet the maddened deep? and buoy the laboring ship above the foundering billows? Finally, can he stay the tide of death that it shall never break over his fragile bark? or retain the spirit when the conqueror enters the chambers of his tenement of mortality?

Before these, frail man must bow, his mightitude to the contrary notwithstanding. And why? His better nature responds: "Might is not in man. Too frail his being to stay the wild tempest, or the tide of absolving mortality. Himself he does not know; his soul he ne'er can save. Nature counsels him not; and his days are as a span."

Whoever shall charge us with overrating and bearing the "Seer's" propositions too far, and

of causing them to result contrary to the legitimate conclusions consequent upon his theses and reasonings, will, by reading "Nature's Divine Revelations," or even the extracts in this Review, discover that, although much may be said of the "Great Positive Mind," etc. still, than Nature he has no Divine Mind, and the Univercœlum is made to unfold into Spirit. If, therefore, the former is clearly taught by the "Seer," the latter is no less so. The reconciliation of the opposing propositions or assumptions and antipodal conclusions, we submit to the friends of this Work, merely suggesting if it might not be less difficult to get up a new one under the favorable auspices of a more mature magnetic condition.

This magnetic scheme of Creation concluded,
Discloses the system of every Age,

Whose visage appears, when of verb’age denuded,
Unworthy of Prophet, of Seer, or of Sage.

The nocturnal prism of Stoic Materialists,
Composes the base of the Pantheist's view;
Tho' tinged by the prismatic hue of Etherealists,
The heart of the system no power can renew.

If Orpheus, Cudworth, Aristotle and Bruno,
Descartes and Virgil, and Spinoza, too,
Combine in the premise, it still remains pseudo,
Tho' a magnetized "Seer," reflect it anew.

'Tis matter, and motion, self-wrought into being,
Whose bodies form parts of the circle divine
All nature resolved into thinking and seeing:
The axiom, "Atoms to God-hood incline."

An infinite Body, the Univercælum,

A Vortex of Lava, the Positive Mind,
All Matter and Motion, all Spirit and Wisdom-
Through Man, the immensurate whole is refined.

The Seer of Poughkeepsie thus uttered, ascending
To regions supernal--the heavens on high-
While roaming in spirit, where vision unending
Prepared him the Working of Nature to spy.

From Nature's vast Vortex, we read, he unfolded,

The Cause and Beginning, the Mode, Means and End Of all things in being, and how they were moulded, Their present condition, and whither they tend:

What atoms accomplished, when man was created,
When the labor of Matter gave birth to the soul;
How Bible Religion by sense is berated,

When instinctive nature approaches its goal:

The story of Nature; of Adam's creation,
Recorded by Moses, a legend, untrue;

The Bible is not of divine Inspiration,

As taught by the Christian and bigoted Jew:

By whom have been fostered as ethics, false notions, Descending through ages, oppressing the race; From whence hath arisen Earth's dire commotions, Inspired by the fable of heavenly grace.

Thus reasons the "Seer" against Bible narration;
Old Pagan arising thence heralds the morn:
The senses unite in the great proclamation,
"The Prince of Magnetic Redemption is born."

CHAPTER V.

BIBLE THEORY OF MAN.

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A DROOPING stalk invites support, and error, to be sustained needs lengthy and sophistical dissertations, and abundance of select literary embellishments. If a figure be defective, it must be clothed in a manner to conceal its deformity. If the visage be sallow, it must be rouged with artistic skill that it may appear flushed and vitalized. If emaciated, it must be inflated to render its appearance robust and vigorous. With these artificial qualifications the skeleton may survive the ordeal of showy exhibition; but not the test of analysis; nor can it endure as a means of dependence. But Truth, simple and frank in its nature, reveals without dissimulation or affectation its native qualities, its symmetrical form and harmonious movement. It displays its divine art in its works. Truth unfolds from divine Law. It moves in the eternity of its own consistency, harmonizing with existing things. Or, if born of facts, reveals the nature of its cause. Truth is unsophisticated, and needs no limner to disguise the imperfections of a malformed body, or to commend its virtue and utility to the unbiased understanding of the

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