Category: History - Other

The Creation of God

II. The Earth, 21 III. The Chemical Aspect, 39 IV. The Sun, 51 V. Genesis--The Creation, 67 VI. Genesis--The Garden of Eden, 80 VII. The Deluge, 92 VIII. The Scriptural God--The Creation, 101 IX. The Creation of God--Abraham, 112 X. Moses--Confirmation of the Idea of God, 119...

Chapters

46. CHAPTER XIX.

The expenditures of the human body, or the waste products which arise from the activity of the master tissues, are thrown off by the excretory tissues, as the lungs, the skin, t...

47. CHAPTER XX.

In plant life the permanent fabric consists of only three elements--carbon, hydrogen, oxygen. We know that plants alone convert inorganic or mineral substances into organic matt...

52. CHAPTER XXV.

Saved from what? Ignorance? Superstition? Bigotry? Or stupidity? From idiocy or imbecility? Or, are we to be saved from poverty, hunger, starvation, misery and wretchedness, dis...

44. CHAPTER XVII.

We have seen that the principal elements, the most active, that enter into the composition of plant life, that form the food substance for the support and nourishment of animals...

16. CHAPTER X.

"And the occasion he laid hold of was this: The Ethiopians, who are next neighbors to the Egyptians, made an inroad into their country, which they seized upon, and carried off t...

6. CHAPTER IV.

The Colossus, or brazen statue of the Sun, was placed across the mouth of the harbor of Rhodes, its legs stretched to such a distance that a large ship under sail might easily p...

50. CHAPTER XXIII.

Dry truth, real knowledge, hard facts, are less interesting, less entertaining, than a plausible fable or a fanciful story. While the latter is listened to, with eagerness and p...

68. CHAPTER XXX.

Religion, supernaturalism, ecclesiastical control of human affairs, have done more harm than the good they have ever effected. For several thousand years they have been doing th...

67. CHAPTER XXIX.

Writers and thinkers with a strong theological bias, seem to fear that the world would go to pieces if the scriptural God or Gods were deposed. They seem to apprehend that the m...

3. CHAPTER II.

This earth we live on is a planet, and belongs to the solar system of planets. It shines brightly, and appears to other worlds as other planets do to us. It is nearly 25,000 mil...

19. CHAPTER XII.

That was the shout, with the commencement of the new era, when the tallest man in the nation appeared in the midst of the people that had assembled at the call of Samuel (1 Sam....

51. CHAPTER XXIV.

What is sin? If we are able to ascertain what sin is, we shall probably understand why salvation should be extended to the one that sins, or to a community of sinners.

2. CHAPTER I.

The beginning of intellectual development consists of observant experience. By frequent and repeated observation man acquired a familiarity with the subjects of that process--a...

66. CHAPTER XXVIII.

Why man should claim that the terrestrial God, the God that was created on this earth, extends his sway beyond the limits of this globe, is not easily accounted for. It is an as...

49. CHAPTER XXII.

We have seen that the work done by the master tissues causes a loss, or produces a certain amount of waste material, consisting of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen, and so...

5. CHAPTER III.

By the word chemistry we understand the science which investigates the composition of all material substances, taking them apart or separating them, by a chemical process, and d...

29. CHAPTER XIV.

The Hebrew monarchy established under Saul 1095 B.C., continued and cemented under David, and weakened and ruined under Solomon, terminated in the year 975 B.C., lasting altoget...

14. CHAPTER VIII.

The Chaldeans were undoubtedly great admirers of nature at the time we first hear the name of Abraham mentioned in connection with the Bible, about the year 1921 B.C.

8. Chapter i, verse 1, of Genesis: "In the beginning God created heaven

(1) God could not have created the earth, as a planet distinct and separate by itself. This terrestrial globe belongs to a system of planets, and they are all not only dependent...

48. CHAPTER XXI.

We have thus far discovered that this terrestrial globe is composed of sixty-four elementary substances; that fifty belong to a class called metals, and the remaining fourteen a...

13. CHAPTER VII.

As to the region where the deluge occurred--on the northern edge ascend the Persian mountains; on the east the steep and lofty parallel chains of the Indo-Persian boundary mount...

18. CHAPTER XI.

The mind, the brain, the senses, had reached a stage of development that might well be called childish, with sensuality and selfishness predominating. Fighting, cruelty, and lus...

9. CHAPTER VI.

The custom of six days' labor and one day's rest is a human invention, and is based on the principles of economy, power-saving, labor-saving, and had been a recognized instituti...

39. Chapter xxxvii, verse 20: "And the sticks whereon thou writest shall

The political methods of governing nations which had their origin in the ages of barbarism, ignorance, and brutality, left the rotten remnants to construct upon them a system of...

43. CHAPTER XVI.

These are the materials of which vegetables are made. Vegetables derive all the materials of their fabric from the earth and the air. Plants can possess no simple elements which...

53. CHAPTER XXVI.

If any person with a, reasonable amount of intelligence will seriously reflect, he may gain sufficient information to satisfy himself as regards the true nature of the condition...

28. CHAPTER XIII.

During these several centuries we hear nothing of miracle or of prophecy, of any importance. In fact, we have passed the only time God or Jehova made himself at all conspicuous....

45. CHAPTER XVIII.

Food may be considered in its relation to two purposes--the nutrition of the tissues, and the production of heat. Under the first of these heads will be included many other alli...

15. CHAPTER IX.

God, such God as we know of now, like all other things and beings on this terrestrial globe was evolved very, very slowly in the minds of man--crude, ill-shapen, ill-fashioned,...

42. Chapter viii, 54 (woman dead): "And put them all out, and took her

John ix, 1: "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man, which was blind from his birth." Verse 6: "When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and h...

65. Chapter x, 4: Seven thunders utter voices. John takes the little book

We pass on through the extravagances of the succeeding chapter to xvi. Seven angels and seven plagues and seven vials of wrath. The first vial of wrath was poured upon earth; th...

27. Chapter viii, verse 1: "O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked

Verse 6: "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm, for love is as strong as death; jealousy as cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which...

40. CHAPTER XV.

The Christian era, like the Chaldean-Abrahamic era, and like the Mosaic-Jehovistic era, was introduced in a mysterious manner. Both the Mosaic and the Christian were accompanied...

1. CHAPTER I. The Universal Aspect, 9

II. The Earth, 21 III. The Chemical Aspect, 39 IV. The Sun, 51 V. Genesis--The Creation, 67 VI. Genesis--The Garden of Eden, 80 VII. The Deluge, 92 VIII. The Scriptural God--The...

7. CHAPTER V.

Man must pass through infancy and childhood before he reaches manhood and maturity. Races and nations also had to pass the stages of infancy and childhood, with all their mistak...

59. Chapter vi: Four chariots between two mountains of brass. The first

The most prominent men in the Old Testament that were endowed with high imaginative powers, were not many. The most noted among them were Isaiah, 681 B.C.; Ezekiel, 591 B.C.; Da...

4. Part II, pp. 33, 39, maintains that India has existed as a nation, as

the records show, 4,320,000 years. The Indians divide this time into four principal periods: First period, that of innocence or simplicity, 1,728,000 years; second period, 276,0...

12. Chapter vi, on the sons of God, etc., is next. I beg to remind the

reader we are still in Chaldea, near the Gulf of Persia; near the river Euphrates; near the garden of Eden, where God created man; where we found gold and precious stones; the p...

34. Chapter lv: "Thus saith the Lord, where is the bill of your mother's

divorcement, whom I have put away? or which creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold! for your iniquities you have sold yourselves, and for your transgression is your mot...

60. Chapter i: Seven candlesticks. One was like (verse 13) the Son of Man,

clothed in garments down to the feet, girt about the paps with a golden girdle. Verse 14: "His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow." Verse 15: His feet like...

11. Chapter v: The fourth chapter winds up with Enos the son of Seth. Verse

26: "Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord." Now, Adam lived 930 years, Seth 912 years, and Enos 905 years. God during this period was wholly occupied with these peop...

36. Chapter xxxi, verse 22: "How long wilt thou go about, O thou

This man is unlike the visionary, romantic dreamer Isaiah, whose imagination and nervous exaltation kept him more or less in a state of excitability and carried him into regions...

31. Chapter ix, verse 21: "Manasseh and Ephraim, and Ephraim and Manasseh;

and they together shall be against Judah," etc. He talks in a confused, mystified fashion, alluding now to this people, now to that; at one time to the Tribes and at another to...

20. Chapter i, verse 1: "The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

56. Chapter xlvii: Visions of holy waters.

Verse 3: Four great beasts came up from the sea. The first was a lion and had eagle's wings. The second was like a bear, it had three ribs in the mouth between the teeth, etc. T...

55. Chapter x: "Above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them

as it were a sapphire-stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne." Verse 2: "Go in between the wheels even under the cherub, and fill thine hands with coals of fire,"...

24. Chapter v, verse 1: "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse. I

have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat O friends; drink ye, drink abundantly, O beloved."

21. Chapter ii, verse 1: "I am the rose of Sharon and lily of the valley.

Verse 14: "O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rocks, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy...

63. Chapter viii: The seventh seal opened. Seven angels with seven trumpets

64. Chapter ix: The fifth angel sounded. A star falls into the bottomless

Verse 7: Faces of men with hair of women and teeth of lions. He sees breastplates of iron. There is sound in the wings, sound in the chariots running to battle, etc., etc.

54. CHAPTER XXVII.

"Around it stood the seraphim; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly," etc.

23. Chapter iv, verse 1: "Behold thou art fair, my love, behold thou

Verse 16: "Awake O north wind; and come thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden and eat his pleasant fruits."

10. Chapter iv relates to the crime of murder. God instigates the

crime. Abel kept sheep. Cain tilled the ground. Cain brought vegetables to God, and Abel brought the firstlings of his flock and fat. God's taste ran in the meat line; he was so...

32. Chapter xxxv, 1: "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be

25. Chapter vi, verse 1: "Whither is my beloved gone, O thou fairest

17. Chapter IV: "As for Moses, in order to secure the nation firmly to

himself, he ordained new rites, and such as were contrary to other men. All things are with them profane which with us are sacred; and again, those practices are allowed among t...

61. Chapter vi: He saw a white horse, a red horse, a black horse, and a

pale horse. The first had a crown, the second a sword, the third a pair of balances, on the fourth sat Death and Hell. There were seals opened, etc., etc. The fifth seal was the...

57. Chapter viii: A ram had two horns; one was higher than the other. He

22. Chapter iii, verse 1: "By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul

26. Chapter vii, verse 1: "How beautiful are thy feet with shoes,

41. Chapter xx, 34: He touches the eyes of two blind men and they see.

Luke viii, 43: "And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed by any." 44: "Came behind him, and tou...

30. Chapter viii, verse 8: "And he shall pass through Judah; he shall

overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck, and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of the land, O Immanuel." This really means the son which the p...

33. Chapter xlix: "Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken ye people from

afar; the Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name." This is supposed to mean, Christ being sent to the Jews complaineth o...

62. Chapter vii: He sees four angels standing on the four corners of

the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow, etc. He saw another angel with a seal--for various tribes, etc.--very fanciful, very fantastic, ve...

35. Chapter xxiii, verse 5; "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I

will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper and shall execute justice and judgment in the earth"--meaning, Christ shall rule and save them.

38. Chapter xxxvi, verse 25: "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you;

37. Chapter xxxiv, verse 20: "Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them:

58. Chapter v: Flying roll twenty cubits long, ten cubits broad.