and glory fully equal to the capacity of our dormant senses and slumbering spirits, are bestowed in this Proem to Nature's eternal SPEECH. Indeed, such is the spirit and the character of "Nature's Divine Revelation," that from its ipse dixit there is admitted no appeal. Its conclusions are, therefore, imperative. No speech could be more authoritative; no language more egotistic and presumptuous, and no effort to sustain assumed positions, could be more labored. In fact, the Work depends upon fundamental assumptions, whose sentiments are elaborated into extensive and complicated theories. Such as the followlowing, constitute the "axioms" of the scheme. "I am impressed," "I perceive," "From my illumined condition," "From the position I now occupy," "In the Beginning the Univercoelum was, etc.," "It is the law of Matter to produce its ultimate Mind," "It is the law of mind to produce its corresponding Spirit," "And then Deity and Spirit will be existing only," "And thence between the two will emanate new worlds -an epoch of another Beginning," "And then the Great Sun, will roll into space, a far more perfect Univercœlum.” While reviewing this Work, which appears but the rehearsal of ideas obtained from the "Magic Panorama which passed before the Magnetic Vision of the "Seer,' the Bible's rationale of man's bewildered state,

enforces its important truths upon us. If this mental effusion is the essence, yea the Wisdom of Nature, as it purports, its inconsistent statements and bold contradictions reveal her inefficiency, and deepen the conviction of man's moral weakness, spiritual blindness, mental imbecility, and therefore of his depravity. Sadly the Work proves that "All have gone out of the way" and forcibly illustrates these solemn truths uttered by the Psalmist, "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." "God looked down upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. Every one of them is gone back."

If this work be a faithful representation of Nature, Nature is deplorably at fault; but if Nature be harmonious and efficient, then the WORK is not her production, and man, its proximate cause, is bewildered and effeminate.

The reasoning throughout, is so cloudy and sophistic; the absurdities are so palpable and glaring; the propositions so contradictory, dreamy, and inexplicable, that they convey no definite idea of a First Cause, or of any existing Design in the mechanism of Nature. And the multifarious motor-forces are so diversely constructed and applied, that one "Function" is forced to compete with another, until the complicated aggregate presents Nature's grand

periphery as wild and hazy, and her intermedium vague and mystic. The propositions, inductions, and conclusions, whirl so deliriously as to render the Universe of Matter and Mind, they seek to represent, absolutely chaotic, the manifestation of impulsive imbecility.

This is

One "portraiture" represents Nature as the acme of perfection; another, as an illimitable abyss of igneous surging elements, which by their own might are developing Omnipotent Power; and still another, as a sea of molten glass, most transparent, which reflects the august contour of the Great Positive Mind, all-pervading and all-encompassing. succeeded by a scene which reveals the Great Positive Mind as a Vortex of Pure Intelligence, and as ingathering the abyss of flaming substance into his vast thorax; thence arises in form of an Infinite God-Head, Love, Will, Wisdom, Justice, Mercy, and Truth. As this scene merges into another, the being last revealed resolves himself into the primitive Univercœlum, or Sea of Lava, whose boundless and undefinable realm extends throughout infinite space, that which has been eternally pervaded by its matchless perfection. Thence a sudden contraction seizes the immeasurable Univercœlum, and a vortex of flaming elements appears exerting its internal powers to re-expel itself

into space. Again emerge vast molten billows, impelled from the Great Centre Vortex. These have scarcely obtained their orbits, and assumed their spherical forms, ere, as though seized with Omnipotent convulsions, each struggles to impel its elements into a system of subordinate orbs, and, lo, innumerable currents diverge from these centre vortices, and space is traversed by their fiery combinations. Old night awakens from her eternal slumbers, and the expansive void presents the appearance of a Universe in flames. "This," echoes "Nature's Divine Revelations," "is one Body of one immortal Soul." "This is Deity!" and lo! the knell of their mortality sounds, and the orbs, the seas, flaming substance, and the Centre Vortex-the constituents, parent and dwelling-place of the Great Positive Mind, disappear.

Withdrawing from the illusive reverie, behold! Nature is proceeding in her accustomed order, proving the "Work."

But the dream of a magnetized dreamer: Nevertheless this is the true character and the substance of the Harmonial Philosophy-the vitality of the magnificent scheme set forth in "Nature's Divine Revelations; " the Soul of Infidel Spiritualism; the Breath of anti-Christ; and the Pantheism of Orpheus, Bruno, Descartes, and Spinoza; and the principal tenets of these

several systems are the same, however much their modes of theorizing may vary.

"Bruno supposed God to be the soul of the Universe; others seem to have discovered an original substance, in which all contradictions cease, and all subjects of finite thought disappear; by which they understood that which has an independent existence, and which is incapable of creating anything material or intellectual, for all matter and mind are comprehended in itself. Its attributes are infinite thought and infinite extension. God, this all-embracing being, can act only in accordance with the established order, for otherwise we must suppose him capable of a change of nature, or that there exists a nature different from his own. Thought and extension, spirit and matter, the finite and the infinite, motion and repose, good and evil, causes and effects, are attributes of this sole substance, which produces nothing but modifications of itself. All that exists is only a necessary succession of modes of being in substance for ever the same. The morality of this system is founded mainly on force and utility."-[Enc. Am., vol. xi. p. 596.

Buck in his Theological Dictionary, somewhat enlarging upon the above, remarks: "Pantheism, a philosophical species of idolatry, leading to Atheism, in which the universe was consider