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DEDICATION

TO THE

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

and Church Union.

Gentlemen

In furtherance of the objects proposed by you-and to their importance no truly good man can be indifferent — I beg respectfully to cast my MITE into your treasury of Christian information, by proving, on the solid basis of REASON, the undeniable fact of the "DIVINITY OF CHRIST," from the evidence of the Doctrine he promulgated to the world, the absolute purity and perfect sublimity of which show at once that it could not be earthborn, but must have descended from Heaven. This desideratum once accomplished, "CHURCH UNION" follows of course; for, where the Doctrine is universal, the community who adopt it cannot fail to be unanimous. Euclid affords us a proof of the force of doctrine, which can never be refuted, because it is established on the solid basis of REASON alone, totally excluding all sensible phenomena.

Let this line of conduct be followed in "RELIGION;" it is in fact the only rational one, for here we have only to do with spirits: God is a spirit, the soul is a spirit—and the subordination of the will of Man to the will of God constitutes Morality and Religion, which, as Christ says, can exist only in the heart.

When this spiritual communion is so thoroughly understood that the "Code of Laws" established by Christ is not only separated

Every object present to SENSE is INTUITION

UNDERSTANDING is the power of forming CONCEPTIONS

The matter of Knowledge is sensation

All uniting takes place under the TRIUNE PRINCIPLE

Every thought, word, or deed, involves a TRINITY IN UNITY

QUANTITY, QUALITY, RELATION, explained

Cause of sensation, NOUMENON - Effect, PHENOMENON

The constitutive use of UNDERSTANDING generates objects

The regulative use of UNDERSTANDING classifies objects
UNDERSTANDING, with its 12 Categories, explained
Unity involves the TRIUNE PRINCIPLE.

A mathematical Cube explained

Every Object absent from SENSE is CONCEPTION

Conception defined as a produce of UNDERSTANDING
INTUITION joined to CONCEPTION constitutes KNOWLEDGE

TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY the only true Philosophy of Mind
God cannot make Nature without Man
REASON the originator of Syllogisms

HOLY TRINITY exists in all its purity in the Kingdom of Spirits
Nature is constituted by SENSE and UNDERSTANDING
PRACTICAL REASON originates the "Moral Law"
SPECULATIVE REASON generates the laws of Nature
UNDERSTANDING has twelve laws-the Categories
REASON is the key to the whole Christian Doctrine
The immortality of the soul proved

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DIVINE REVELATION points out the only road to Salvation

A First Cause explained

DEISM rejects Revelation

THEISM establishes the DIVINE REVELATION of Jesus Christ
REASON and Revelation in perfect harmony

GOD the Creator, Preserver, and Ruler of the Physical and Moral world

The "SACRED SCIENCE OF RELIGION" founded in REASON

Every spiritual Object is an IDEA

REASON, by its six laws, constructs the SPIRITUAL WORLD
SPIRITS proved to exist.

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