THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MARCH 8, 1900.
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Creator we have Infinite Space; and says, “They are all nothing
everything as the gift, power and against the facts of the world!”
function of the “gods,” which are Should such a “monster” live?
the powers of Nature in Lucretius, All logical, orthodox Christianity,
and the “Elohim” in the first verse j then and now, shouts, “No! Out
of Genesis,shamefully mistranslated of the world with him, Let fire
be our love to him! Hell is too
“ God?’
2. Instead of the supiemacy of good for him!
Faith as the criterion over every
We might, but it is not neces
thing, we learn that the “habit of sary to go farther, to show that the
believing is the chief impediment daily revolution of the earth on its
to Knowledge.” Then comes the axis and its annual circuit around
terrible stroke, “Coelos non esse!” the sun revealed substantially a
“Heaven, the Heavens are not! ’ new Heaven and a new Earth—a
The most terrible words ever reversed environment; consequent
ly there must be a complete re
spoken!
3. All of the struggles and oh-( versal of human affairs and a con-
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H eaven . Christ had died, and the Man, an era of adaptation to the
Church had been built up, to en reversed world, with a new Life and
able mankind to get there as the a new Hope.
final end, hope, reward, happiness
N ote the D ifference : Prior to
and glory of all existence! What A. D. 1600, the Home of the Human
could be more terrible than for this Race, of M an , had been the
Bruno, as the voice of Science, to Earth, ever a Stationary Dwelling
TORCH OF REASON
declare, ‘C oelos non esse .
I here j j Ouse! Its surface-was “the Liv-
are no Heavens, ’ no firmaments, jng Floor of active life and proba-
ceilings, celestial spheres or abodes ^j0l, The life of each individual
at all. All of your God, Heaven, wag entjjegs At death, if not ap-
religion and eternal hopes are proved, the soul went into the first
childish dreams existing in an il basement of the purgatory hells for
lusion of your eyes. No wonder purification by suffering. If not
that the man who first so declared purified, to hell he went in the cel
was burnt as “a monster!” Chris- lar, as Dante and Milton pictures.
tianity did it then, and, logically, q^e Redeemed passed to coelestial
must and would do the same today mansions, in the third story above
had it the power.
“the firmament,” to live in glory
No. 2.
4. People all believed that the and happiness forever. There the
Earth had been created by God Sun and Stars would shed light to
and that it would surely have an the said inhabitants which God
end; that the heavenly bodies, sun had created on the earth; and there
“Truth bears the Torch in the
and stars, were made for it and its the Father and Son and Holy
search For Truth.”
Saints; |and that Christ died for Ghost “lived to govern the human
their redemption only. (See White, world below, and ever increase the
above quoted. Vol. 1, pp. 116- myriads of Saints and Angels, or
117, etc.) What shall be done victims, to augment their glory!”
with this man who said, “It is
S IL V E R T O N , O REG O N:
When Bruno brought forward
L IB E R A L U N IV E R S IT Y P R E SS
against sense and reason to say the new Astronomy, “the laudable
1899
that there is a limit to the world; sense and meaning of Nicholas Co
the world always was and will be, pernicus,”
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and if there is any Holy Ghost it o]d three.9tory Dwelling House
is the ‘World-Soul,’ for God and of man—this Cosmogony of Chris-
Nature agree in all—are one!” tianity—then all of its dogmas,
“Burn him,” said Christianity creeds, doctrines, revelations, dis-
then, and now, as far as it can—for cipiines motives, rewards and
it must!
hopes, were fated io dioappear Our Job D e p a rtm e n t
5. Christ descended from Adam like “the baseless fabric of a
-ALWAYS GIVES
and Eve and died to save all men dream,” for such it was only neces-
as his brothers, likewise so de- sary to think, to see at once that
scended, said Christianity. “No,” they were! “Coelum non fuit”—
said Bruno; “the Jews may have Heaven never was; never will be!
been descended from their Adam, Would then we were never born!
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6. Then, if there was anything
to and in which the people trusted
their all, it was their personal
Creator, caring for and governing
each and all by special providence,
even “to the hairs of every head.”
Then there was his Christ and his
Church and the holy, infallible
Scriptures! And this Bruno comes
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