I. All animated beings originate in the lowest point of existence (ANNWN), whence, by a regular gradation, they rise higher and higher in the scale of existence till they arrive at the highest state of happiness and perfection that is possible for finite beings. {ever to attain to.}

2. All the states of animation below that of humanity are necessarily; and where evil unavoidable preponderates no being can, consistent with Justice, be deemed culpable, nor are they objects of punishment. — Here Fate reigns.

3. Beings, as their souls, by passing from ferocious to more gentle and harmless animals, approach the state of Humanity, become ameliorated in their dispositions, less influenced by Evil, and attain to some degree of negative goodness.

4. Every being is destined to fill an allotted place in the creation, and endued with those sensibilities, benign propensities, and mental capacities, that are requisite to render him happy in that station, which he never can be in any other lastingly, and to this the Creator will finally bring him.

5. Beings, having been led up through such a succession of animal existences as are necessary towards unfolding their destined character, and preparing them for their ultimate office in the Creation, arrive at the state of HUMANITY, where Good and Evil are so equally balanced, that LIBERTY takes place, the WILL becomes FREE; whence MAN becomes accountable for his actions, having a power of attaching himself either to the Good or the Evil as he may, or may not, subject his propensities to the control of Reason and unsophisticated Nature, these being the fixed Laws of the CREATOR.

6. Man being possessed of LIBERTY has the power of coacting with the DEITY, and of attaching himself to GOOD, and by persevering in this course till death arises to such a state above HUMANITY as corresponds with his accessions of Goodness, and with that degree in which they preponderate against EVIL.

7. In all the States of existence above HUMANITY Good preponderates, and therein all Beings are necessarily good; hence they can never fall, but are still advancing higher and higher in the scale of happiness and perfection, till they arrive at their final destination, where every being, in his allotted place, will be completely happy to all Eternity, without the possibility of ever falling into Evil; and, being convinced that he could not possibly be equally happy in any other station, will never have any desire to quit that wherein he is.

8. Man, attaching himself to Evil, falls in Death into such an animal state of existence as corresponds with the turpitude of his soul, which may be so great as to cast him down into the lowest point of existence, whence he shall again return through such a succession of animal existences as are most proper to divest him of his evil propensities. After traversing such a course (treiglo'r Abred), he will again rise to the state of HUMANITY, whence, according to contingencies, he may rise or fall; yet should he fall he shall again rise; and, should this happen for millions of ages, the path to happiness is still open to him, and will so remain to all eternity; for, sooner or later, he will infallibly arrive at his destined station of happiness, whence he never falls. Eternal Misery is a thing impossible; it cannot possibly consist with the attributes of GOD, who is never actu- ated by malevolent resentment that proceeds from a display of superior power, which originates in PRIDE. GOD IS LOVE in the most positive and unlimited degree; he resists Evil for the sake of annihilating it, and not for the mere malevolent purpose of punishing.

9. Finite Beings can never comprehend Infinity; they cannot conceive any thing of GOD, but as something external to themselves individually different, and, consequently, finite. The DEITY for this reason, though in himself infinite, manifests himself to finite comprehensions as a finite being, as in the Person of JESUS CHRIST, &c.

10. The ultimate states of HAPPINESS are eternally undergoing the most delightful renovations in endless succession, without which no Finite Being could ever, consistent with happiness, endure the tædium of ETERNITY. These renovations will not, like the deaths of the lower states of existence, occasion a suspension of memory and consciousness of self-identity.

11. Memory, and the consciousness of having transgressed the Laws of GOD, are suffered to remain sometimes in the lower states of existence after death, as a temporary punishment, and for implanting in them an aversion to Evil.

12. Man, on arriving at a state above HIMANITY, recovers the perfect recollection of all his former modes of existence, and to eternity retains it. It is this, and this only, that constituted a Being's consciousness of having been, and of still being, ever since its first creation, through all states of animated existence, identically one and the same: he could not otherwise say to himself, I was the Animal, I was the Man, or any other being, that at such a period passed, lived, acted, felt, and experienced in such a manner: without this perpetuation of conscious memory, death would be absolute annihilation, and not a change in the mode of existence: without this a being in any superior state would be a new CREATURE, and not a continuation of a former.

13. No knowledge can be acquired but by experience – to obtain all possible knowledge, it is necessary to pass through all possible modes of existence, and to experience all that is peculiarly known to every one of these, each of them affording such a supply of knowledge that no other possibly can. Man in the states of happiness recovers the memory of all that he observed and experienced in every mode of existence through which he has passed.

14. All the knowledge that in the state of HUMANITY we have of supernal existence has been communicated by Celestial Beings, who, of their own Benevolence, subjected to that of the DEITY, return for a while to this world to inform man of what is necessary for him to know of his duty, and of what constitutes happiness in this and in future states, and what, by perseverance in VIRTUE, he may hope for, and be assured of. Knowledge of this kind has been thus communicated to man in all parts of the World, though more eminently so, by the Jewish Prophets and Jesus Christ, in whom all that can be comprehended of the DEITY by Finite Beings was, and in him eternally will be, manifested. BARDISM always refers its origin to Divine communications, and never talked of, I know not what, Religion of Nature.

15. The propensities of animals to prey upon, and destroy, each other is a regulation of Divine Benevolence for expediting the progress of beings through their several destined modes of existence to the states of happiness.

16. Man subjecting himself to Death in the cause of Truth, Justice, and Virtue, and for these foregoing all the enjoyments of this world, and life itself, does the most meritorious act of goodness that he possibly can; and thus, attaching himself to the highest degree of virtue and holiness, passes by Death to the highest and ultimate state of Celestial Felicity.

17. Man, having been guilty of crimes that are punishable by Death, must be so punished; and by giving himself up a voluntary victim to Death, being conscious of deserving it, does all that lies in his power to compensate for his crimes; attaches himself to the greatest degree of good that he possibly can, by giving up all of life and its enjoyments, by suffering, voluntarily, all that ought to be inflicted on him, for his transgression; he by such a Death passes to the highest state of happiness.

18. The sacrifice of animal, which were always those if the least ferocity of disposition, was a religious co-operation with Divine Benevolence, by raising such an animal up to the state of HUMANITY, and consequently expediting his progress towards Felicity, it was not to appease, we know not what, Divine wrath, a thing that cannot possibly exist; the idea of which is, of all others, the most blasphemously disgraceful to the DEITY.

19. Man must not, but from an absolute necessity to save his own life, commit depredations on any animated beings, or kill them to gratify wanton propensities, he must never inflict death or torture but in cases of self-preservations, not of sensual indulgence, or of malevolent animosity. No inferior being destroys another, but to save his own life, which he cannot otherwise possibly do. Many must govern himself by the same Law of Nature, which is that of GOD.

20. Man cannot possibly commit any act that is not more or less conducive to the general and ultimate good; he, though it is forbidden him, but wantonly killing an innocent creature, removes it to a higher state of existence, and consequently benefits it; on a similar plan has GOD infallibly secured much more than an ample recompence for all the wrongs that nay being may suffer from another.

21. Fortitude is the greatest and first of all virtues: without it no other virtue can be practised; what we do from the excitements of pleasure and self-gratification is not, or but by a very in- ferior kind of, Virtue. We can never unequivocally evince our love of Virtue, Justice, Benevolence, or any thing else, but by suffering willingly for its sake. Without fortitude we shrink from all that is good and laudable, if with it any, even the least, degree of suffering is connected. The commission of all Vice proceeds from the fear of practising its opposite Virtue.

22. Pride is the utmost degree of human depravity; it supplies the motive for perpetrating every kind of wickedness, it aims at Superiority and Power, which none but GOD is, of right, entitled to. Man may confer conditionally, and for the general good, a well restrained and limited power on superior merit; but none are entitled to usurp it. Self-created superiority, and power over others, is a dethroning of the ALMIGHTY as far as man can do it. PRIDE is the destroyer (CYTHRAUL) of the works of the CREATOR, the subverter of all order, forces itself obtrusively into a station that was never allotted to it. All men are equal in the CREATOR's paternality, as his children: and to superior worth and virtue he has secured infallibly the approbation of the truly Good and Wise, who will ever voluntarily exalt it to its merited height if not frustrated by the PROUD, who always, and often with temporary success, aim at usurping what is only due to transcendent Virtues and beneficent Abilities: PRIDE casts down into the lowest point of existence.

23. The soul is an inconceivably minute particle of the most refined matter, is necessarily endued with life, and never dies; but at the dissolution of one body it passes into another higher or lower in the scale of existence, where it expands itself into that form and corporeity which its acquired propensities necessarily give it, or of that animal (with whose body it becomes clothed) wherein only such propensities can possibly reside naturally. —By the way, let us ask what modern Philosophers, or rather Anti-philosophers, mean by unembodied and immaterial beings or spirits, existing either in happines or misery? if any thing can be understood of IMMATERIALITY it must be NONENTITY; mere NOTHING; unless we conceive it to be the DEITY, who is infinite, which immateriality also is, and cannot be divided, or limited. We cannot possibly conceive any idea of a FINITE INTELLIGENT Being, without annexing to it something (however subtile and refined) like materiality.

24. LIBERTY once obtained will never be lost; it consists in a perfect knowledge of the causes of Evil in every mode of existence, and of all the operative principles of NATURE. Permanently perfect LIBERTY can never universally take place till all Beings and all Modes of existence are entirely divested of their EVILS.

25. The state of HUMANITY being that of LIBERTY is the only State of Probation; it is, for that reason, on the actions of this state only that Divine Judgement will be passed.

26. The Creation is still in its Infancy: GOD will, by the pro- gressive operations of his Providence, bearing all Beings to the point of LIBERTY (which is the Human State) wherein only, even by GOD himself, Evil can be combated and subdued; wherein all power begins, exists, and subsists.

27. Evil, and all its causes, once perfectly known, which it cannot be till all Beings have passed through all possible Modes of finite existence, will be for ever hated and avoided; but, being in itself possible, it will, with all other possibilities, eternally exist in its abstract principles, all possibilities are things of eternity.

28. All Modes of existence which are necessarily as numerous as Divine Conception can make them, will for ever remain in existence with no other change than that of being thoroughly divested of all their Evils, and continue eternally as beautiful varieties in the Creation, which without this numerosity of externalities would not possess perfect beauty.

29. All the various Modes of existence, for ever externally the same, will, when internally divested of all EVILS, be occupied successively by Celestials, or those that inhabit the Circle of Felicity, these, amongst other changes, will vary and delightfully relieve what would otherwise be insupportable in Eternity to finite Beings. All these Modes of existence will, when purged of their Evils, be equally perfect, equally happy, equal in the general estimation, and equally fathered by the Creator. Peace, Love, and ineffable Benignity filling the whole Creation. All mental and corporeal affections and propensities of benign tendency will remain for ever, and constitute the joys of the Celestial existences.

30. Our infallible rule of Duty is, not to do or desire any thing but what can eternally be done and obtained in the Celestial states, wherein no Evil can exist. The Good and Happiness of one Being, must not arise from the Evil, or misery, of another.