Rev. 1. 7. Behold, His knowledge or power cometh (into the soul) with spiritual instructions; and every soul shall see his Spirit (within herself;) and they also which pierced him (within themselves by their unbelief:) and all the followers of the human system shall wail because of his doctrine. Even so: amen. 2. 24. As many souls as have not this human doctrine, and which have not known, or studied, the deep opinions of the spirit Satan, as they speak: I will put upon them none other duty. 7. 17. For the doctrine of the Lamb which is in the knowledge of heaven shall feed their souls, and shall lead them unto living fountains of spiritual instructions: and the word of God shall wipe away all tears from the eyes of their souls: or shall console them for all their tribulations. 8. 9. And the third part of the knowledge of the souls which were in the simple and deep philosophy, and had the knowledge of life, died and the third part of the knowledges with which they could stand and advance on the deep human system was destroyed. 10. And its degenerate spirit fell upon the third part of the knowledge of the souls that were rivers and fountains of philosophical instructions. 11. And the degree of the fallen spirit is called wormwood and the third part of the phi losophical instructions became wormwood: Rev. and many souls died of the instructions, because they were made bitter. 9. 14. Loose the four spiritual minds or knowledges which are bound in the great philosophical and persuasive knowledge Euphrates. 11. 6. And have power over the simple instructions to turn them into the inferior human knowledge, that is the life of ignorant crea tures. 13. 1. And my soul stood upon the unsteady knowledge that is the foundation of the simple human philosophy, and she saw a spirit beast, or a foolish system, rise up out of the knowledges of the deep human philosohpy. 16. 3. And the second angel poured out his know ledge on the deep human system, and it became (in the soul) as the vile knowledge of a spiritually dead: and the knowledge of every living soul in the simple philosophy was destroyed. 4. And the third angel poured out his instruc tion upon the simple knowledges (in the soul), and they became like the worldly knowledge that is the life of beasts or of creatures inferior to men philosophers.— Gen. 9. 4. 12. And the sixth angel poured out his instruction upon the great philosophical and penetrating knowledge Euphrates (in the soul) and the knowledge thereof was dried up (in her), that the way of the commanding spirits of the east philosophy might be prepared (therein). 1. I will shew unto thee the soul the of judgement of the great human system that departs from the commandments of the Lord, and of which the knowledge sits upon many human opinions. 15. The opinions which thou sawest, where the spirit of the faithless philosophy sitteth, are the human opinions which constitute philosophical peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 1. And there was no more deep human system (in the soul). 6. And my Spirit shall give unto the soul that is athirst of the instruction of life freely. 22. 1. And his knowledge showed my soul a pure instruction of knowledge of life, clear as chyrstal, proceeding out of the heavenly Spirit or religion that is the throne of the Spirit of God, and of the Spirit of the lamb. 17. And let the soul that is athirst of truth come to my Spirit. And whatsoever soul will, let her take of the instruction of life freely. Of Paradise. I believe it has been received, by the generality of those that have been denominated either Jews or Christians,-that Paradise, or the garden of Eden, spoken of in Gen. 2. and other places, was a spot on this earth; on the exact situation of which there have been different opinions, as it appears from a map of Judea, and adjacent countries, where, according to three persons who had puzzled themselves about it, Paradise is placed in three different places: two on the river Jordan, at little distance from each other, and the third near the Mediterranean Sea, and where it is represented as a space of ground, which one would suppose by far too large for one man to dress and to keep; and too little for his posterity, if he and they had continued in obedience to the commandments of God. Others have imagined that it was in Chaldea, and elsewhere. Being totally unacquainted with the grounds of their opinion, I can say nothing about it;but I beg leave, Theophila, to mention that I am surprised that people who believe the Scripture, should consider this present earth to be the same as that of which they imagine that the creation is related, in Gen. 1. For such a notion, according to the way that they they usually understand the Holy Writings, appears to me irreconcileable with what is said in 2 Peter, ch. 3. v. 6 and 7, wherein it is clearly stated, that the world that was before the flood, perished, (in conformity to the will of the Lord, which was that the earth should be destroyed, Gen. 6. 13,-9. 11.) and wherein another earth is spoken of, as having been substituted for the first; of which second earth the Apostle says, which is now. I cannot, then, conceive, how those who understand the Sacred History, literally, suppose, in direct contradiction to Peter, that this earth is the very same that is mentioned as existing before the flood. If they should say that the words-destroyed, perished, and which is now, ought not to be taken literally, then it would seem inconsistent to understand, literally, the old world, the world of the ungodly, and the flood which is brought upon it, 2 Pet. 2. 5. Then taking that first world to have been any other than this, it becomes idle to talk of the garden of Eden, the first abode of man, as having been a part or a spot of this earth. Admitting, for argument sake, that this visible earth is the same as that in Gen. 1, and 2, then either the Paradise spoken of therein must be still on it, and may be found; or the Scripture speaks of another in St. Luke, 23. 43. in 2 Cor. 12. 4. and in Rev. 2. 7.; which, I believe, many would have no objection to concede, as it seems, on consideration, that the Paradise alluded to in those verses, cannot be a garden on this earth. Should we believe it to be spiritual, then it would be consistent to admit that the tree of life that is in it, must also be of that nature and different from our trees; as it cannot be conceived that a material tree, like ours, could be standing in a spiritual garden; and since that tree of spiritual life was in the garden of Eden, I think I may conclude that the Paradise in Gen. 2. was not a material garden, such as ours, and that it was no part of this earth; otherwise how could the spiritual tree of life have existed in a garden that should have belonged to this visible material earth? That would seem quite incomprehensible. Neither could I admit that the philosophical tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which was in the garden of Eden, was of the same kind as our trees, and grew in any garden of this earth of which no production has ever been known to bear knowledge of any kind. If, after much meditation and discussion, to which, Theophila, I invite you most earnestly, you should agree that the Scripture Paradise cannot have been a |