hearer to call it diabolic, diabolic it shall be. If he has a devil, he will make the most and the best of him. If these things come from hell, let us look to it and hold them fast, that we may see what it is that divides hell from heaven.
"As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its advent: the Eternal Hell revives. And lo! Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb : his writings are the linen clothes folded up. Now is the dominion of Edom, and the return of Adam into Paradise; see Isaiah xxxiv. and xxxv. chap.
"Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human exisence.
"From these Contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason.
"Evil is the active springing from Energy.
"Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.
"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 and a Soul.
"2. That Energy, called Evil, is alone from the Body; and that Reason, called 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 called Body is a portion of Soul discerned 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 to do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer, or reason, usurps its place and governs the unwilling.
"And being restrained it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire.
"The history of this is written in ' Paradise Lost,' and the Governor, or Reason, is called Messiah.
