ORIGIN OF MAN, 
 
 A TREATISE OF 
 
 ANGELS, DEVILS AND MEN, 
 
 AND A COMPENDIUM OF 
 
 WHICH IS AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION; 
 
 WHAT IS MAN? 
 
 WITH NOTES ON 
 
 SPIRITUALISM, DARWINIANISM, ETC. 
 
 What is man— whence his origin ? 
 
 This question long the world has vexed ; 
 Answers many have been given, 
 
 Of which you here have the two last ; 
 Darwin’s is an improved monkey ! 
 
 From Afric’s wild and torrid coast, 
 
 And ours, which is far more likely, 
 
 'I'hat we are of the Angels Lost. 
 
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 WITH NOTES ON 
 
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 “ Ye laiow not what manner of spirit ye are of.” Luke ix : 55. 
 
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 Mat. xrii: 35. 
 
 BY JAMES P. SIMMONS, 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
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 The theory of our being, which War in Heaven pre- 
 sents, is so different from the opinion usually entertained 
 by the Christian world of this age, that, although it is com- 
 paratively a small book, it has not had a sufficient reading 
 to attract general attention to the theory therein submitted. 
 
 By this Compendium, it is designed to furnish a brief 
 summary of the leading propositions contained in that 
 work, with references to a few (and comparatively only a few) 
 of the many Scriptural authorities on which the writer has 
 founded his answer to the grave question, “ WJiat is Man ?” 
 
 That is the question on which the whole science of the- 
 ology hinges ! Without knowing what we are, or why we 
 are here, we can never arrive at any satisfactory 07 ' safe con- 
 clusion as to the true interpretation of the most important 
 revelations as to God’s dealings with us, both here and 
 hereafter. Whether the soul is created when the body is 
 born, as held by the Catholic Church ; or propagated by 
 and from the parents, with and as the body is, as Protest- 
 ants generally suppose ; or whether the soul is the man, 
 and was created, lived and sinned before this world was 
 made, as the pious Jew and heathen philosopher alike be- 
 lieved, are que.stions which demand, and should receive, 
 the most careful and serious consideration of all who ex- 
 pect to stand in judgment at the great day of retribution. 
 
 The sole purpose sought to be accomplised by the pub- 
 lication of this pamphlet, is to direct the attention of those 
 who think for themselves, and love the truth, in a brief 
 way, to that theory of our nature — origin and destiny — 
 which the writer believes to be the correct one ; and which 
 indicates the only battle ground on which Christianity, in 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 tlii.s advanced age, can successfully meet the disciplined 
 hosts of infidelity. 
 
 And this is done with a devout wish and humble hope 
 that a careful reading of these few pages may and will, 
 awaken such desire, in the minds of many, to know more 
 of themselves and of their associates in sin as will lead 
 them to a far more thorough investigation of the mystical 
 revelations which God has made to man, and which were, 
 as it is manifest, intended to be more perfectly understood, 
 after the ascension of Messiah, than was permitted before 
 that period. 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 SECTION I. 
 
 Introductory — The Soul is the Man — Value of the Question — 
 
 Discrepancies in our Creed — Infidelity — Spiritualism, etc. 
 
 Cui bono ? It has been asked — what practical good can 
 result from an investigation of questions relating to the 
 origin of our race ? It is said — we have souls which must 
 be saved or lost, and it is immaterial when, or how they 
 originated. Such reasoning is not only superficial, but it 
 is irreverent to God, and delusive and damning to man. 
 
 We are commanded to “search the Scriptures,” and no- 
 tified that “If the blind lead the blind, both shall fail into 
 the ditch.” Let us not be of those who “believe a lie, 
 that they may be damned. 
 
 It is not true that " we hai'c souls." Such idea is decep- 
 tive and dangerous. We have bodies. The soul — the 
 mind — the spirit — is the man, and each has a body, and 
 which is occupied while we live here, merely as a tenement. 
 The bodies of men are but “houses of clay." (Jobiv; 19.) 
 “Our earthly house of this tabernacle,” (2 Cor. v: i) and 
 which we must “shortly put off” (2 Pet. i: 14.) 
 
 Is it not material to us, whether we are the creatures of 
 an all-wise and perfect Creator, and who will hold us to 
 strict account for our conduct while here, or whether we 
 owe our being to blind chance ! and have been evolved from 
 the lowest order of animal life ! Is it a matter of little con- 
 sequence to us, whether the Bible is true or false! Will 
 any sane Christian, and especially one who professes to 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 have been called by the Holy Spirit to the sacred work of 
 the gospel ministry, say that any fact is unimportant which 
 tends to sustain the Christian theory of religion against 
 modern infidelity? If there lives such an one, he is not 
 better than wolf in sheep's clothing!" 
 
 And now my Christian friend, pardon me in saying that 
 we cannot successfully defend our holy religion, against the 
 assaults which are made upon it daily, by learned men who 
 lead the infidel hosts, until we go back, review our Bible 
 and learn to answer the question correctly, ‘ ‘ What is Man ?" 
 And we must abandon our present unphilosophical, un- 
 scriptural and erroneous notions, about the origin of our 
 race, and in reference to the Divine purposes which brought 
 us into this world. 
 
 There are discrepancies in our theory — weak points in 
 the walls of our fortification which must be detected — the 
 bad materiel removed, and that which is good, sound and 
 true, put in its place before we can present an impregna- 
 ble barrier between our citadel and the wily foe. And for 
 the benefit of such as are not fully informed of the vantage 
 ground at present occupied by the enemy, attention is here 
 called to some of the most obvious inconsistencies in our 
 system ; and which but for the sustaining energy of the 
 Holy Spirit, would long since have rendered powerless and 
 absolutely disarmed the best drilled and most valliant '"sol- 
 diers of the Cross." 
 
 It is believed and held by Christians generally, both Cath- 
 olic and Protestant: 
 
 1. That there is an omnipotent, omnicient, omnipresent 
 and very merciful God, who created all things, and who 
 reigns supreme over all his rational creatures. 
 
 2. That he made our common parents pure and holy — 
 placed them in Eden — gave them a law, and which they 
 violated and fell, under the course of that law. 
 
 3. That Satan, who had been cast out of heaven for sin 
 and rebellion there, is the same evil spirit that entered that 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
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 sacred place, and in like manner, deceived and betrayed 
 Adam and Eve into sin. 
 
 4. That the soul of man is immortal — that there will be 
 a general resurrection and final judgment, and that the re- 
 deemed of the Lord will thence be taken up to heaven, 
 and all others sent down to hell. 
 
 5. And it is believed by most Protestants (and the Cath- 
 olic opinion, as to the origin of the soul and original sin, 
 affords them no relief in this respect,) that we have de- 
 scended, soul and body alike and together, from our pa- 
 rents — have inherited our depraved and sinful nature from 
 them, and as a consequence of the temptation and fall in 
 Eden ; and that all who live to mature years and do not 
 seek and find pardon through Jesus Christ, will be driven 
 away “into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his 
 angels. ” 
 
 Though brief, this is believed to be a fair statement of 
 the popular Christian belief, of this age, on the points men- 
 tioned. And all of which, except as to the nature and or- 
 igin of the soul, and the effect of the fall upon us, the 
 writer feels well satisfied are true, and fully sustained by 
 the word of God. 
 
 Now, Christian reader, answer the following questions to 
 your satisfaction, and on the idea that you had no being 
 before this life : 
 
 1. Why was Satan permitted to enter Eden, and there 
 to deceive, beguile and ruin that hitherto pure, confiding 
 and happy pair? Could not God have prevented it? 
 Then, why was it allowed? Remember that, according to 
 our theory, God knew beforehand just what Satan would 
 do if not restrained; that He was present, could have pre- 
 vented it, but did not. Hozu was all that? 
 
 2. Admit that in some way unknown to us, (but which 
 cannot be true) Satan out-generaled his Creator on that oc- 
 casion, and secretly crept into Eden and in one night, 
 spoiled His whole week’s work, when God entered His 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 garden next morning, and learned (?) what had been done, 
 why did He not pardon the sin of Adam and Eve? They 
 repented, confessed and believed, did they not ? We hope 
 for pardon on such terms, do we not? And was it denied 
 them? “God is Love,” He loved them as His own crea- 
 tures, made in His own image ; Satan was His enemy. 
 How easy and natural it would have been for such a Crea- 
 tor, on that morning of grief and woe, to have spoken 
 kind words to his sorrowing creatures, such as: “Peace be 
 still. Thy sin, though great, is freely forgiven thee ; go 
 and sin no more.” 
 
 In that way (if the case had been as supposed) “the 
 works of the devil ” could have been destroyed at once. 
 And then, would not our whole race been as pure and holy 
 as our progenitors were, when pronounced ''very good?” 
 Who will say that sin was not pardoned ? I would not so 
 say for all the good this world can give ! 
 
 3. If there was a divine law which forbid such pardon, 
 (but that could not have been) would it not have been bet- 
 ter to have destroyed that pair, or to have rendered them 
 barren, and made another, to become the progenitors of 
 such a family of eternal spirits? 
 
 4. If eternal wisdom saw fit not to pardon, destroy or 
 make them barren, would eternal justice require that we, 
 who had no existence till near six thousand years thereaf- 
 ter, should be held to such fearful account for that trans- 
 gression ? If not then in being, of course we did not cause 
 the deed to be done, nor could we have prevented it, could 
 we ? Then would eternal mere}" have permitted our whole 
 race to have been so exposed to the torments of hell — 
 there to burn and writhe and shriek in pain forever — all for 
 that one sin, and which we did not commit, and could not 
 prevent ? Would a God possessing all power and wisdom 
 and mercy so deal with his unoffending and helpless crea- 
 tures ? He most assuredly would not ! And would not 
 such treatment, of His own creatures, be more befitting a 
 cruel fiend than a mercifid God? 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
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 5. Now let us pass from original sin and its consequences, 
 and notice the sins of this life, actually committed by our- 
 selves, and their punishment. Is it reasonable that a God 
 of great compassion and tender mercy toward all His ra- 
 tional creatures, would punish the worst sinner that ever 
 lived eternally for the sins of this life? Just think of eter- 
 nity, and compare it to the life of Methuselah. The term 
 of his life, is to eternity, less than one second is to ten thou- 
 sand years ! Law-givers and courts of this world, all agree 
 that punishment for crime, should bear some due propor- 
 tion to the offense committed, but in the case supposed 
 there is none. 
 
 6. If any doubt is entertained as to the last question, let 
 us take another case, rather than argue that one. Suppose 
 a kind-hearted, blithesome school miss, of fifteen summers, 
 one who was baptized into the church when an infant, was 
 blest with a pious mother, who learned her to say her 
 prayers, night and morning, as soon as she could lisp the 
 name of Jesus, one who has attended Sunday-school and 
 day school also, regularly all her life, is well educated and 
 intelligent for one of her age, and who never did an act in 
 violation of the decalogue in all her life (as many such have 
 not), yet one who has not been ^'boni again," should die 
 in that condition, would a merciful God punish her eter 
 nally with "'’the devil and his angels" for the sins of tJds 
 life ? She died under the curse, did she not ? And accord- 
 ing to the orthodox creed, she is lost ! — damned to all eter- 
 nity!! And for what? In the case supposed, it would 
 appear to have been done for no sufficient reason, if not 
 for the pleasure (?) of seeing such an innocent, lovely crea- 
 ture tormented forever, with devils and damned spirits ! 
 Is not the very thought of having charged our Maker and 
 kind Benefactor, with such horrid cruelty, inexpressibly ab- 
 horrent, to every true friend of God and of his Christ? 
 
 Upon the hypothesis that we are of Satan’s rebellious 
 host, and that the Mosaic accounfe of the temptation and 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 fall in Eden (although literally true), i.s a figurative illustra- 
 tion of our real temptation and sin in heaven, all such diffi- 
 culties vanish away, as does the darkness of night before 
 the morning sun. For if we come into this life, the ser- 
 vants of Satan, we must so remain and abide with him for- 
 ever, if not pardoned — regenerated — ''born again.” 
 
 As long as advocates of the Christian religion, so con- 
 strue their Text Book, is it strange that Spiritualists u.se 
 such language as the following, in reference to the God of 
 Moses, and whom we adore? “We do not say this igno- 
 rant bigot, calling himself God, was not Jehovah : that, 
 for ought we know, might have been his name ; but we do 
 say that this whiffling, jealous Deity has not sense enough 
 to govern the world.” — Hull. (They consider him the 
 very wicked spirit of a dead Jew ! and in every respect, as 
 greatly inferior to Moses.) 
 
 7. If we are new creatures — having had no previous ex- 
 istence, why is it that we will all, except the few who are 
 regenerated here, be finally sent for punishment to the 
 same place (and for the same term) which was prepared for 
 the devil and his angels ? Is it at all likely that our crimes, 
 committed in this world, are precisely equal with, and 
 merit just the same sort and degree of punishment that 
 is due “the devil and his angels,” for their rebellion in 
 heaven ? God is never strained for means to effect his pur- 
 poses, as men are. He could readily have found or pre- 
 pared separate apartments for the safe keeping and retribu- 
 tion of each class or family of his erring creatures. Could 
 he not? And yet he has said: “The Son of man shall 
 come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then 
 he shall reward every man according to his works.” — Mat. 
 xvi : 27. 
 
 The devil and his angels will receive the same meed of 
 ju.stice, as we cannot doubt; then how can each be so re- 
 warded, on the plan adopted, and in the case supposed ? 
 
 These are but a few of the many errors and inconsisten- 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 I I 
 
 cies into which popular doctrines of the church, have in- 
 volved the Christian theory of religion, and which have no 
 foundation in the Bible, nor in natural reason, but are at 
 once dishonoring to God — fruitful of doubt and infidelity, 
 and ruinous in their results to the cause of Christ. And it is 
 fervently desired and devoutly hoped that the few sug- 
 gestions already made, of such difficulties, may prove suf- 
 ficient to arouse some at least of those who stand as watch- 
 men on the walls of Zion ; and to show them the necessity 
 of carefully observing every “distinction in the sounds’’ 
 which they are making — “For if the trumpet give an un- 
 certain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?” — 
 I Cor. xiv; 8. 
 
 The Bible A true — it is perfectly consistent with itself — 
 with every fact known to science, and with natural reason. 
 Every time you think you have found conflict between differ- 
 ent passages of Scripture, the difficulty lies with yourself, my 
 friend. You have simply failed correctly to understand 
 one or both passages. And if you imagine that you see 
 something there which is contrary to Jmman reason, you may 
 safely swear that you do not understand it ; for it is utterly 
 incredible that a poor, benighted, ignorant creature, should 
 vanquish his all-wise Creator, in a fair philosophical argu- 
 ment. And the revelation which Christians revere, was 
 prompted by the love, and dictatsd by the wisdom of God, 
 and must therefore be true and reasonable. 
 
 Then let us not fear, as Christians, to submit our theory 
 to the test of reason ; but rather let us compare it anew, 
 with the Word of Wisdom, and make it conform to that 
 Word. When we have done that, but not till then, we 
 can challenge all the learning of this world, backed by the 
 delusive skill of the devil, to a comparison of theories, and 
 we can confidently and successfully meet them, either in 
 the defense of revelation or of our system, as compared 
 with theirs, or both, as the enemy may prefer, and in the 
 light of human reason, or in any other light. 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 SECTION II. 
 
 Man an Eternal Spirit — A Fallen Angel — Four Theories of 
 
 the Soul stated — Three noticed — Two compared. 
 
 It is now purposed to answer the question: “What is 
 man ?” Before proceeding to do so, however, it is thought 
 best to give the reader, in brief and with this, all the old views 
 of psychologists, including that of infidels, on this subject. 
 
 “It appears that four different theories as to the human 
 soul, mind, or spirit, have been presented to the world ; 
 and the object of this writing is to propound a fifth. These 
 will be severally noticed (but not here) in the order in which 
 they are stated, to-wit: 
 
 1. That the soul is but the rational thinking power of 
 man, and although superior to that of other animals, had 
 no previous existence, but is pro-created as is the body, 
 and perishes with it. 
 
 2. That at the beginning of the world, God created the 
 souls of all men, which however, are not united to the 
 body till the individuals for whom they are destined are 
 begotten or born into the world. 
 
 3. That the soul is created at the moment when the body 
 is prepared for its habitation. 
 
 4. That the soul and body are alike, and together prop- 
 agated by the parents, neither having had any previous 
 existence. 
 
 The theory herein proposed is: That the souls of all 
 men existed before the creation of this world ; that they 
 are of the fallen angels who were engaged in rebellion un- 
 der Satan in heaven, and were, b\" Michael and his hosts, 
 ‘cast out into the earth;’ and that when the body destined 
 for each is prepared, the spirit is sent to occupy it merely 
 as a tenement.” War in Heaven, Chap. I, pages 9 and 10. 
 
 The first view, above stated, is that which was enter- 
 tained by the Sadducees of old, and which has been held 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
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 by infidels generally, down to the introduction of the mod- 
 ern and far more captivating delusion of Spiritualism. 
 
 Of the third theory, to-wit: “That the soul is created 
 at the moment when the body is prepared for its habita- 
 tion.” Dr. Knapp says: “ Cyril, of Alexandria and Theo- 
 doret among the fathers in the Grecian church, were of 
 this opinion ; and Ambrose, Hilarius and Hieronymus, in 
 the Latin church,” . . . “The theory of the Crcati- 
 
 ani was at first favored by Augustine ; but he rejected it as 
 soon as he saw how it was employed by the Pelagians. It 
 has continued, however, to the present time to be the com- 
 mon doctrine of the theologians of the Romish church, 
 who, in this, follow after the school-men, like them, mak- 
 ing little of native depravity and much of the freedom of 
 man in spiritual things. 
 
 Among the Pretestant teachers, Melancthon was inclined 
 to the hypothesis of the ” . . . “Still many 
 
 distinguished Lutheran teachers of the seventeenth cen- 
 tury followed lyfelancthon in his views concerning this doc- 
 trine. ” . . . “Luther would have this subject left 
 
 without being determined, and many of his contemporaries 
 were of the same opinion.” See Text {\Var in Heaveii) p. 
 28, ct seq. 
 
 The fourth hypothesis, as given above, is: “That the 
 soul and body are alike, and together propagated by the 
 parents, neither having had any previous existence.” This 
 is the theory of our being which has long been most pop- 
 ular with Protestants, anfl of which Dr. Knapp says: — 
 “This is the hypothesis to which the opponents of the 
 Pelagians have been most generally inclined.” (Pelagius 
 denied the doctrine of native depravity, and held to that 
 of the utmost freedom of the will.) “The reason why 
 this theory is so much preferred by theologians is, that 
 it affords the easiest solution of the doctrine of native de- 
 pravity. ” “ The easiest sohUion !’ ’ And for that {very good ?) 
 reason, it has become the most favored theory with the 
 ^reat Protestant Church ! 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 In this respect our Catholic brethren have a decided ad- 
 vantage of us, for their theory is not strictly unreasonable, 
 as God could create immortal spirits continually as bodies 
 are born ; and hence, the chief difficulties with which they 
 have to contend, in that particular, arise from two facts : 
 first, the total absence of Scriptural authority to sus- 
 tain them, and second, that there is abundant evidence in 
 the Bible of our pre-existence ; while we Protestants, are 
 in the same dilemma, as to the bearing of Revelation on 
 the subject, and which is still worse for us, our notion is 
 not only unscriptural, but it is unreasonable and absolutely 
 impossible also. 
 
 The law of re-production is, that like shall produce its 
 like. Vines do not bear acorns, nor oaks pumpkins. Then, 
 is it reasonable to believe that perishing, physical bodies 
 produce eternal spirits ? Is it ! That God could create, or 
 in any way produce, a being superior to himself is impos- 
 sible. Is it not ? Then, can man do that which God can- 
 not do ? Our theory is that he can ! 
 
 To this it has been replied that the production of the 
 soul is not in virtue of any inherent power of man, but 
 that God, of his almighty power, causes the soul to come 
 into being with the body. This is possible ; but if it is in 
 that sense only, that the soul is propagated with the body, 
 the soul is just as much a new creature of God, as if crea- 
 ted as is supposed by the Catholic Church. And in that 
 view, our theory of the soul falls to the ground, and our 
 doctrine of native depravity falls with it. For it must be 
 true, as they insist, that ‘ ‘ if God created the souls of men 
 he must have made them either pure and holy, or impure 
 and sinful. The latter supposition is inconsistent with the 
 holiness of God, and consequently the doctrine of the na- 
 tive depravity of the heart must be rejected. To affirm 
 that God made the heart depraved, would be to avow the 
 blasphemous doctrine, that God is the author of sin.” 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
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 SECTION III. 
 
 Prc-existcncc of the Soul — This the Old Philosophy — A Chal- 
 lenge — Evidenee other than Saiptural — Pythagoras — Plato 
 — -Josephus — Book of Wisdom — Hernias, etc. 
 
 The second theory, as stated in the preceding section is : 
 “That at the beginning of the world God created the souls 
 of all men, which, however, are not united to the body till 
 the individuals for whom they are destined are begotten or 
 born into the world.” And that which is proposed and 
 advocated in “War in Heaven” is, “that the souls of all 
 men existed before the creation of this world ; that they 
 are of the fallen ang«ls, who were engaged in rebellion 
 under Satan in heaven, and were by Michael and his hosts 
 ‘cast out into the earth and that when the body destined 
 for each is prepared, the spirit is sent to occupy it merely 
 as a tenement. ” 
 
 The careful reader has already observed that in the the- 
 ory advocated by the writer, “there is nothing new under 
 the sun;” but that it is merely an enlargement of the idea 
 of pre-existence, by identifying the class of spirits to which 
 we belong, and showing why we are here, as revealed by 
 Jesus Christ anc| his disciples. 
 
 And the proposition is now and here assumed, that every 
 man, whether prophet, evangelist or apostle, who ever 
 wrote a line which is found in the Bible, believed in the pre- 
 existence of the human soul. Should any learned theologian 
 or other person, wish to deny this, he is invited to do so 
 publicly, and is hereby challenged to produce proof to the 
 contrary. Mere charlatanical attempts to dispose of stub- 
 born facts of such magnitude — and which are clearly revealed, 
 as by contemptuous sneers at the thought ofa “ Lawyer" un- 
 dertaking to teach in matters of religion, will not suffice in 
 this age and country. Thinking men, who feel that they 
 will soon have to stand before the Judge of quick and 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 dead, want to know what they are — why they are here — 
 for what they have to answer ; and they want to see the 
 evidence on which they are advised to rest their case. 
 How is itf This question must interest, more or less, all 
 reasoning people. 
 
 As preliminary to the argument which follows, it is 
 deemed best to remark that there is no direct or full reve- 
 lation given, in the Old Testament, as to the origin of the 
 soul, and there is no argianoit to be found either in the 
 New Testament or the Old, of this question. The reason 
 why that subject was not discussed by any writer prior to 
 the Crucifixion, is to be found in the fact, that thor was no 
 difference of opinion about it. Every bod}' of ever}' age, 
 prior to that memorable event, who believed that the soul 
 is immortal, believed also that it existed before man was 
 made in Eden. 
 
 To a correct understanding of an}" writing in which man}- 
 words of doubtful import are found, peculiar forms of ex- 
 pression used, and passing remarks, as well as casual refer- 
 ences made, which relate to another matter than that which 
 is directly under consideration, it is necessar}' that we 
 should first know the writer’s opinion on the subject so 
 incidentally touched. Inasmuch, therefore, as the Old 
 Testament contains no direct and full revelation as to the 
 origin of the soul, or of the purposes for which this world 
 was made, but in which many words are found which are 
 not generally understood, and frequent passing remarks, 
 casual references and peculiar forms of expression met with, 
 and which are manifestly based on the common belief of 
 all the sacred writers, in our pre-existence, the following 
 evidence is presented to prove that they all did so believe. 
 
 Dr. Knapp, who has investigated the subject thoroughly 
 says: “The Hebrews generally describe the human body 
 as derived directly from parents, as from the phrases, ‘ to 
 come fvin the loins of the father, to be in his loins,' ” etc. . . 
 “Both Greeks and Hebrews represented the state of man 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 17 
 
 before his birth as similar to that in which he will be after 
 death.” . . “And so, according- to the notions of the 
 
 Hebrews, man is hi the earth as well before his birth as af- 
 ter his death ; and comes forth into the i^aterial world from 
 that same vast, subterranean, invisible kingdom to which 
 he again returns. ” . . “This was the opinion of Pytha- 
 
 goras, Plato, and his followers,” etc. 
 
 Plato and others held that the soul “pertained originally 
 to the divine nature, and is incarcerated in the body as a 
 punishment for the sins which it committed in its heavenly 
 state. This hypothesis found advocates in the ancient 
 Christian church.” Origin Heatius, Justin the martyr, 
 and others, are mentioned as of those who believed in the 
 pre-existence of the soul. See Christian Theology, pages 
 200 and 201. 
 
 The above quotations from Dr. Knapp are given to show 
 the result of the most careful research by a modern, learned 
 and honest Protestant, upon this subject ; but to whose 
 mind the question appears never to have occurred whether 
 or not we are of Satan’s followers. See also Religions En- 
 cyclopedia, Tit. Pi'e-existiani. 
 
 The following extracts from the writings of Flavius Jo- 
 sephus, the great Jewish historian, and who was a contem- 
 porary of Jesus Christ, are now offered as evidence to prove 
 that all Jews, from the earliest age of that people down to 
 the Christian era, who believed in a future life, believed 
 also that zve have lived before. That period includes the 
 times of all the Old Testament writers, as will be perceived 
 at once. 
 
 In his Antiquities of the Jews, (Chap, i, p. 12) he repre- 
 sents Moses as having informed us “that God took dust 
 from the ground and formed man, and inserted in him a spirit 
 and a soul,” (meaning, doubtless, with animal life, “q liv- 
 ing sold.” See Gen. ii: 7.) Josephus gives this as his 
 rendering of that Scripture, and as will presently appear, 
 he believed that soul was in being before the body was 
 made. 2 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 If the translators of the Bible had put the words pos- 
 sessed of, (as they often did to make sense) before a living 
 soul, so as to have made that clause read thus, “and man 
 became possessed ^ a living soul,” they would have made 
 that Scripture convey the same idea which Josephus had, 
 and which must be the true interpretation, for man was 
 something more than “a living soul” as then constituted. 
 Was he not ? 
 
 In speaking of the Essenes, which he represents as the 
 most pious sect of the Jews, and of what he calls their 
 "'divine doctrine about the soul," and of the fortitude with 
 which they bore the most cruel tortures inflicted on them 
 by their Roman captors, he says: “They resigned up their 
 souls with great alacrity, as expecting to receive them 
 again. For their doctrine is this, that the bodies are cor- 
 ruptible, and that the matter they are made of is* not per- 
 manent; but that their souls are immortal, and continue 
 forever, and that they come out of the most subtile air, and 
 are united to their bodies as to prisons, into which they are 
 drawn by a certain natural enticement ; but that when they 
 are set free from the bonds of the flesh, they then, as re- 
 leased from a long bondage, rejoice and mount upward.” 
 Jewish War, Book 2, Chap. 8, p. 250. 
 
 He proceeds, on the next page, to state the views 
 of the Pharisees as to the immortality of the soul 
 and future rewards and punishments, and in both of which 
 they agree, in the main, with the Essenes, but says noth- 
 ing of their philosophy as to the origin of the soul, and 
 lastly, in a very few words, he disposes of the other sect, 
 the Sadducees, by showing them to be utterly infidel in 
 faith, and reprobate in morals ; and closes that chapter 
 with the remark: “And this is what I had to say concern- 
 ing the philosophic sects among the Jews.” 
 
 Observe that Josephus, in putting on record for the ben- 
 efit of all future ages, the views entertained by the then 
 religious sects into which his countrymen were divided. 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 19 
 
 very naturally gives, first, at some length, those of the 
 most pious sect, the Essenes. (Were not the Prophets all 
 Essenes ?) He then states, briefly, the opinions of the 
 Pharisees, and evidently intended to give the points on 
 which they differed only. Ele distinctly says the Essenes 
 believed that the souls of men conic out of the most subtile 
 air, and are united to their bodies as to prisons, into tuhich they 
 are drazvn,” etc., and says not a word of a different opinion 
 on the part of the Pharisees, himself, or any other Jew, ex- 
 cepting the Sadducees only. This needs no comment, for 
 none can fail to understand it. % 
 
 But this is not all. Josephus often had occasion to men- 
 tion remarks made by others, and incidentally to intimate 
 his own views also on this subject. He has given us the 
 address made by Eleazar who commanded the more than 
 Spartan band of his countrymen, the Sicarii, who had re- 
 treated to the fortress of Masada, and there made the last 
 stand against the victorious legions of Rome. Jerusalem 
 had already been taken and destroyed, and every Jewish 
 army captured or dispersed, and in their last extremity he 
 advised and exhorted his people to die by their own hands 
 rather than submit to their heathen conquerors, and which 
 they bravely did. 
 
 In speaking of death and its consequences, Eleazar 
 said : “ It is true, the power of the soul is great, even zvhen 
 it is imprisoned in a mortal body ; for by moving it after a 
 way that is invisible, it makes the body a sensible instru- 
 ment, and causes it to advance further in its actions than 
 moral nature could otherwise do. However, ^vhcn it is 
 freed from that weight which draws it down to the earth, 
 and is connected with it, it obtains //.y own proper place," 
 etc. Here we distinctly see again the same idea of the 
 Essenes. — -Jeiuish War, Book 7, Chap. 8, p. 464. 
 
 And again, in reference to their laws of purification and 
 the reasons for it, all of which he, no doubt, well under- 
 stood. Josephus said: “Eor, indeed, the soul by ’being 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 united to the body, is subject to miseries, and is not freea 
 therefrom again but by death ; on which account the law 
 requires this purification to be entirely performed.” Can 
 it be truly said of anything which is in prison, that it is to 
 be freed again, if it never was free before ? (See his Apion, 
 Book 2, p. 5 i6.) 
 
 Attention is next invited to a few passages taken from 
 the books of Wisdom and Hermas ; the first of which was 
 written before, and the last after the advent of the Savior. 
 The book of Wisdom may be found in the apocryphal Old 
 Testament, and the writings of Hermas are published in 
 the apocryphal New Testament. And inasmuch as the au- 
 thors of both are believed by some to have been inspired, 
 while others think that neither was, their evidence is of- 
 fered here as that of learned and pious witnesses only. 
 
 In the ninth chapter and fifteenth verse of W'isdom we 
 read; “For the corruptible body is a load upon the soul, 
 and the earthly habitation presseth down the mind,” etc. 
 The fifteenth chapter contains an expose of idol worship, 
 in which the writer says: “And of the same clay, by a 
 vain labor, he maketh a God ; he who a little before was 
 made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the 
 same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was 
 lent him, shall be called for again.” . . “He knew not 
 
 his Maker, and him that inspired into him the soul that 
 worketh, and that breathed into him a living spirit. (How 
 like Gen. ii: 7 again!) 
 
 And further on he says: “For man made them, (the 
 idols) and he that borroweth his own breath fashioned 
 them, for no man can make a God like himself. For being 
 mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked 
 hands. For he is better than they whom he worshipeth, 
 because he indeed hath lived," etc. 
 
 Hermas, in his second vision, saw an "old woman" walk- 
 ing and reading in a certain book which she gave him. 
 Referring to it, he further on says: “Moreover, brethren, 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
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 it was revealed unto me, as I was sleeping, by a very 
 goodly young man, saying unto me. What thinkest thou 
 of that old woman from whom thou receivedst the book ? 
 Who is she ? I answered, a Sibyl. Thou art mistaken, 
 said he, she is not. I replied. Who is she, then, sir? He 
 answered me, ‘ It is the CJuirch of God. ’ And I said unto 
 him. Why does she appear old ? She is therefore, .said he, 
 an old woman, because she zvas the first of the creation, and 
 the zjoorld zvas made for her." Vision 2 : JI-J2-JJ. 
 
 Observe, the church was represented to Hermas as an 
 old zjooman. She is represented as a woman also in Rev. 
 xii: I. Isa. Ixvi : Jer. vi; 2, and in many other places. 
 And by Hermas we are informed, directly, that the church 
 (meaning the individuals of which she was to be constitu- 
 ted,) was created before the world was made, “because 
 she was the first of all creation, and the world was znade 
 for her." See Text, p. 124. 
 
 SECTION IV. 
 
 Jesus Christ and Michael the same — Satan the Enemy of God 
 and Man — Those cast out of Heaven by Michael, offez-ed 
 Redezziption on eazih by Christ — This fact distinctly z'eveal 
 ' ed — Blizidziess of Pzrjndice — That Scriptuz'c Wzrsted azid 
 Hozv — Dz'. A. Clark' s Evidezice, etc. 
 
 Having first established the fact that in all ages of the 
 world, down to and including the time of Jesus Christ and 
 his apostles, the common belief df both Jews and Gentiles 
 was that the souls of all men pre-existed, and by proof found 
 outside of the canonical books of the Bible, (while evidence 
 of that fact abounds far more abundantly in that Book of 
 Books, as the sequel will show,) the reader’s mind is now 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 prepared clearly to comprehend the meaning and duly ap- 
 preciate the force of various words, peculiar phrases and 
 forms of expression, parables, etc., which are so often met 
 with in the sacred writings, and which were manifestly 
 based on that idea and have direct reference to it. 
 
 For inasmuch as no trace is anywhere to be found, until 
 since that time, of any different belief on that subject, hav- 
 ing been entertained by any one, (except by infidels,) the 
 conclusion is irresistible on the part of every one who really 
 wants to knoiu the truth, that all the writers of the Old Tes' 
 tament and the New, must have held the same opinion. 
 
 It is now proposed to prove, from the sacred writings 
 alone, that such common belief among those who lived in 
 the olden times was well founded, and at the .same time 
 and in the same way, to prove of what family or class of 
 spirits we are. 
 
 Attention has already been invited to Genesis, and we 
 will now go back to Revelation, and in our further progress 
 we will gather fruit promiscuously, as occasion may require 
 or conv'enience suggest, from the great vineyard included 
 by both and all that lies between the two. And should 
 the first grapes we find prove (as they doubtless will,) 
 let us not become dismayed, but trusting in the promises 
 made by the Lord of the vineyard to all zoho hold out faith- 
 ful to the end, let us take courage and pursue our labors 
 with confidence that we will be rewarded with ripe, rich and 
 sweet fruits before the season is past. 
 
 We will now read from the twelfth chapter of Revela- 
 tion, only premising that b}' the name Jfichacl,'' Jesus 
 Christ is intended, and that the terms '"dragon,” "serpent,” 
 and "devil,” all indicate Satan — the same evil spirit who is 
 so often referred to in the Bible as the great enemy of God, 
 of Christ, and of all good people. 
 
 “7. And there was war in heaven : i\Iichael and his an- 
 gels fought against the dragon ; and the dragon fought and 
 his angels. 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 23 
 
 “8. And prevailed not; neither was their place found 
 any more in heaven. 
 
 “9. And the great dragon was cast out — that old ser- 
 pent called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole 
 world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were 
 cast out with him. 
 
 “II. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb 
 and by the word of their testimony ; and they loved not 
 their lives unto the death.” 
 
 Now, honest reader, what does this Scripture mean ? 
 “ He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast 
 out with him ; and they overcame him by the blood of the 
 Lamb. ” The natural and most logical meaning most as- 
 suredly is just this; Satan was cast out of heaven and down 
 to the earth ; and his angels (those who fought with him) 
 were cast out and down to this world with him ; and they 
 (Satan’s angels) overcame him (Satan) by virtue of the 
 blood of Jesus Christ. Is not this the fair, true and only 
 interpretation which can, with any due regard to the cause 
 of truth, be given of it? If I am right in this view, (and 
 who will deny that I am ?) there need be no more doubt or 
 disputation as to the origin of our race. 
 
 But it may be suspected that the tenth verse, which was 
 omitted above, might, if given, have changed the meaning 
 wonderfully. Let us see. Here it is: “10. And I heard a 
 loud voice saying in heaven, now is come salvation, and 
 strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of 
 his Christ : for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, 
 which accused them before our God day and night. ” This 
 verse was omitted above to show, in close connection, the 
 narrative of Satan’s expulsion, and the effect of it on earth, 
 and without the interruption produced by the remarks 
 made in the tenth verse, as to the cause of his banishment, 
 and the relief afforded thereby, to those who remained 
 steadfast in heaven. And in that way, as all will see, the 
 clearest practical view is given of this — the most awful fact 
 that is any where revealed to man. 
 
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 Origin of man. 
 
 That verse, however, so far from impairing the force of 
 this construction, but confirms it, because the whole five 
 verses, considered together, show the identity of Michael, 
 who cast us out of heaven, with Christ, who came to re- 
 deem us here, and that, by “ The blood of the Lamb, ” the 
 sacrifice of our Savior is intended, is too plain to admit of 
 argument. 
 
 But a doubting Thomas may not yet feel satisfied that 
 our race is identical with "'his angels (who) were cast out 
 with him. ” 
 
 If there be such an one, let him answer, to his own sat- 
 isfaction, the other questions which follow : What race, or 
 class of sinners, other than ours, has or will overcome Satan, 
 “by the blood of the Lamb?” This scripture says that 
 they who were cast out with Satan overcame him just by that 
 means. Do you really believe what it says? Or is it 
 simply false? Then, if you will not say it is false, what 
 does it mean? And, if we are not of those rebel angels, 
 what promise have we of salvation through Jesus Christ? 
 Did he come to redeem both those who were “cast out, ” 
 and another and altogether different family of eternal spir- 
 its also, one which was, as it would seem, never created at 
 all, (as some think) but just came into being in obedience 
 to natural laws, as the acorn grows on the oak, or, (as 
 others have it) who are newly created spirits, made when 
 and as their bodies are born — and who, in either view of 
 the case, had .never sinned, or fell, and therefore had no 
 need of a Savior? Christ said, he came “to seek and to 
 save that which was lost. ” Can you expect salvation 
 through Him, if you lucre not lost tuhen he camel 
 
 My Christian friend, is the Bible nothing better than an 
 unmeaning or unintelligible romance — an idle fiction ! Is 
 God but a myth ! And is the human soul no more than 
 a sort of imaginary quality, or a property of ours, or some- 
 thing intrusted to our care — “The vital principle, ” as often 
 called, yet which is worth saving, as it is to live, after wc 
 are dead ! 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 25 
 
 Had Solomon lived in this age, the force of his exclama- 
 tion could have been more fully appreciated, Avhen he said : 
 “Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vani- 
 ties; all is vanity. 
 
 Are bishops, priests and preachers all so completely ab- 
 sorbed in their bootless wrangles and quarrels about their 
 church organizations, or so wedded to a few old dogmas, 
 (which should have become obsolete long since) that they 
 are perfectly oblivious to the plainest teachings of God’s 
 word? “If these things be so, ” the time has come when 
 capable thinking people, who are to be judged according 
 to their works, (and which are but evidences of their faith, 
 which i^ the real test) should turn their backs to such teach- 
 ers, and their eyes and thoughts to the Bible. No man 
 should permit another to do all the thinking for him, in 
 matters of such grave import, without first having a safe 
 arrangement made, by which the teacher shall go to hell, 
 as the substitute of the taught, should such trip become 
 necessary, on account of unbelief 
 
 It is said that: “You can’t learn an old horse new 
 tricks. ” And it would, most likely, prove more difficult 
 to get a practical scriptural idea into the head of a learned 
 theologian (?) who has been, for lo, these many years, burn- 
 ing out his eyes and straining his brains to get up some 
 plausible argument to sustain the unscriptural and unrea- 
 sonable creed of his church ; but in which he has grown up 
 and been educated and the truth of which he has never 
 doubted. And no sane man ever yet has, nor ever will 
 investigate a question about which he is already satisfied. 
 
 Will any one consider such remark, of great and good 
 men, presumptuous? If so, he will please give a better 
 reason why both great and good men differ so widely about 
 their doctrines, as to the origin of the soul, of election and 
 free will, perseverance and falling from grace, baptism, etc. 
 Does the fault lie in the Bible? Or does God desire to 
 mislead his teachers? No, my friend, that book of inspi- 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 ration speaks with no forked tongue ! But to the contrary, 
 when carefully read by an unbiased inquirer after truth, 
 and construed just as we do all other writings, there is no 
 conflict to be found in it, but every fact that is taught in 
 any one place, is perfectly consistent with every thing else 
 which is said in the whole Bible ; and therefore, one clear 
 ''thus saith the Lord, " is sufficient on any one point. And 
 moreover, there is no room left for a doubt, when so read, 
 as to any duty which God requires of us, nor as to the 
 rules by which we will be tried, and rewarded or punished. 
 
 Remember, there is no direct evidence in the Old Testa- 
 ment, as to the family of spirits to which we belong; al- 
 though it was believed in a very early age, that fallen an- 
 gels were in this world, as will appear from remarks made 
 by Josephus, in his Antiquities, Book i. Chap. 3, Sec. i, 
 and a note by Prof Whiston thereon. See also Gen. vi : 4. 
 That the disciples, James and John, did not, at one time, 
 know their origin is certain, for the Savior said to them : 
 “Ye know not what manner of .spirit ye are of” Luke i.x: 
 55. They knew they were eternal spirits, but did not 
 know of what class, nor for what sins they were here. 
 This was one of the great "hidden" facts which Christ 
 promised his disciples should be revealed, and made known. 
 Mat. x; 26, and John xiv : 26; and which was revealed to 
 St. John soon thereafter, as we have seen. 
 
 ILit, it may be asked, why was this .scripture, which ap- 
 pears so plain, not understood by every one who has read 
 it, from then, till now? Many causes have contributed to 
 this blindness ; among which may be mentioned the fact, 
 that a few men hav^e, in all ages, guided public opinion on 
 every subject, but especially in matters of religion, and 
 this scripture has been wrested, by those who were “unlearn- 
 ed and unstable, as they do also wre.st the other scriptures 
 unto their own destruction,” (pardon the slight transposi- 
 tion) 2 Pet. iii : 16. The conclusion to which charity com- 
 mends’, in all such cases, is however, that such guides have 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 2/ 
 
 been themselves directed by the arch deceiver of man, and 
 enemy of God. 
 
 Dr. Adam Clark, in a preface to his notes on Revelation, 
 informs us that the revelations made and prophecies con- 
 tained therein, have, from the time of St. John down to 
 the present time, been construed by Christians as referring 
 to those who were, from time to time, considered their 
 worst enemies. 
 
 And that which must strike the observant reader as won- 
 derful, is the fact, that this twelfth chapter, as well as the 
 whole book, has most frequently been construed, not as a 
 revelation of hidden things, (as the Savior had promised, 
 and the very name, “Revelation," shows that it is, and was 
 intended to be) but as strictly a prophecy, of things to come 
 thereafter. It contains both however, revelations and 
 prophecies. All admit that the fifth verse refers directly 
 to the birth of Christ, which was an event of the past, and 
 man}^ other passages in that book unquestionably relate to 
 things then gone by. 
 
 It is a revelation of two of the most important facts yet 
 revealed to man, to-wit: That we were cast out of heaven, 
 for sins committed there, and that the same victorious 
 Chief, who drove us thence, has, of his eternal love and 
 tender merc}^, followed us in our banishment — brought us 
 into this life, and is now offering us pardon, and restora- 
 tion to our primeval, happy estate, and on terms the most 
 liberal. 
 
 From that distinguished commentator, we learn, that in 
 the age immediately succeeding that of St. John, Christians 
 generally, and whether originally Jews or Gentiles, looked 
 upon the infidel Jews as their common and most dreaded 
 enemies ; and that they construed this scripture, as apply- 
 ing to the Jews and Jerusalem. The heathen Emperors of 
 Rome, became their next persecutors, and they were be- 
 lieved to be the parties intended. The Roman pontiffs 
 next became the terror of Protestants, and they soon 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 found, and yet find, a ready solution of the whole myster>' 
 by applying it to the Pope and the Catholic church. And, 
 in turn, the Catholics appear quite as well satisfied that Lu- 
 ther and his Protestant followers, are the great anti-CJmst — 
 “dragon” — “serpent” — “devil” and “Satan,” inten- 
 ded; and that they will be “ cast out" (of the earth ?) and 
 their power for evil destroyed, before the dawn of the 
 great day. 
 
 And so the matter now stands, between the two great 
 Christian families, 
 
 “ Each claiming truth. 
 
 And truth disclaiming both.” 
 
 SECTION V. 
 
 Prc-existencc — Proven by Old Testamciit — Oiir Identity with 
 Fallen Angels Sustained by Same — Old and New Testa- 
 ment Prophecies Coupled — New Testament Texts Cited — 
 Dr. Gill, to Michael and Cluist — Old and Nrw Testa- 
 ment Authorities Compared— John the Baptist and Elijah 
 the Prophet the Same — Separate Existence of Sotd and 
 Body — Conclusion. 
 
 Facts referred to in the preceding section, prove conclu- 
 sively, that the twelfth chapter of Revelation has not been 
 correctly interpreted, by the Christian world. It cannot, 
 for instance, refer to both the Pope and the Catholic 
 church, and to Luther and the Protestant church, as the 
 great anti- Christ," who is designated by the names dra- 
 gon, serpent, devil and Satan — therein represented as the 
 arch enemy of Christ and his church, as the friends of 
 each of these two leading families of Christians, insist that 
 it does apply to the other. 
 
 It was designed first, to prepare the mind for the recep- 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 29 
 
 tion of the facts, as revealed in that chapter, in relation to 
 the origin of our race, by evidence of the pre-existence of 
 the soul, draAvn from other evidence than the Bible. Noth- 
 ing more is now necessary than to prove that the script- 
 ure quoted above, as a direct revelation of our origin, 
 means zvhat it says. And this it is now purposed to do, 
 first, by citing a few passages of scripture, simply sustaining 
 the evidence already adduced,- that we have lived before, 
 and lastly, such as tend also, to identify our family as the 
 same rebel sinners who were cast out of heaven with 
 Satan. 
 
 “ Where wast thou when I laid the foundation of the 
 earth? declare if thou hast understanding.” “When the 
 morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God 
 shouted for joy.” Job xxxviii: 4-7. 
 
 From this it appears that Job was somewhere, but knew 
 not where, and that God had many sons, when this world 
 was made. 
 
 ‘ ‘ Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and 
 the spirit shall retinii unto God who gave it. ” Eccl. xii : 7. 
 How could it be well said, “the spirit shall return to God,” 
 if it never had being* until it came into existence with the 
 body? Bear in mind, that Solomon, and all the other in- 
 spired penmen, (as shown above) believed in the pre-ex- 
 istence of the soul. 
 
 “The land shall not be sold forever; for the land is mine, 
 {ox ■a.xQ strangei's and sojourners Lev. xxv: 23. 
 
 See sti'angers and pilgrims.” i Pet. ii: ii. Can one be 
 considered a stranger, sojoimier, or a pilgrim, if he had no 
 previous existence, and who never resided out of the neigh- 
 borhood in which he was born? 
 
 “For we are strangers before thee and sojourners, as 
 were all our fathers : our days on the earth are as a shadow. ” 
 I Chron. xxix : 15. See also, Ps. xxxix: 12. From Rom. 
 iii: we learn that Christ was sent to be a ^ ‘ propitiation” ' Y or 
 the remission of sins that are past” — '■'For all have sinned.” 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 If those who die while infants, have sinned, it was before 
 they came into this world, was it not? The propitiation, is 
 said to have been, “for sins that are past.” 
 
 OF WHAT FAMILY OF SINNERS ARE WE? 
 
 Bear in mind, that Satan, “was cast out into the earth, 
 and his angels were cast out with him,” and further, that, 
 “ they overcame (are to overcome) him by the blood of the 
 Lamb.” Now, what do we next hear of them? “And 
 the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their 
 own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains un- 
 der darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” Jude 
 6. And St. Peter says of them : “ God spared not the an- 
 gels that sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and de- 
 livered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto 
 the judgment. ” 2 Pet. ii; 4. \^\\y rcscn'c them unto the 
 
 judgment, if they have already been adjudged to eternal 
 punishment, and without giving them any chance to re- 
 pent, or ask pardon ? Were they worse, while yet in 
 heaven, and when “cast out,” than some men on earth are 
 now? Read and reflect on the question. 
 
 Observe here, the word “ Tattarusj’ as quoted from St. 
 Peter above, is translated in our Bible ''hell.'' That was 
 simply an error in judgment, on the part of the translators, 
 as to the meaning of the apostle by the use of that word. 
 This will be admitted by all candid critics, who will read 
 the evidence given, beginning on page 103, of “ War in 
 Heaven. 
 
 Tartarus is the name of the place, or condition in which 
 the ancient Greeks believed the fallen angels and souls of 
 bad men are held. And this is believed to be the only 
 place in the bible where that word is to be found. Ib. 
 
 “ Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; 
 
 He who would search for pearls must dive below.” — Dryden. 
 
 Let us, therefore, go back to the prophets of old, and 
 see if they said anything that affects the question before 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 31 
 
 US. “I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that 
 'whxchwa.?, driven away,” &X.C. Ezek. xxxiv: 16. (But read 
 that whole chapter.) When were we driven azvayt They 
 were of the lost, whom Christ came “to seek and to save.” 
 “In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that 
 halteth, and will gather her that is driven ont, and her that 
 I have afflicted ; and I will make her that halted a remnant, 
 and her that was cast far offs, strong nation : and the Lord 
 shall reign over them in Mount Zion from thence forth 
 even forever.” Micah iv: 6-7. Who are those who, after 
 having been east far of , are to become “a strong nation,” 
 and over whom the Lord is to reign forevert Have those 
 who die while infants, been cast far offl No one will say 
 that they have, since they were born into this world. 
 Then, are they to constitute no part of that eternal king- 
 dom ? 
 
 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion ; shout, O daugh- 
 ter of Jerusalem; behold, thy king cometh unto thee . 
 
 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent 
 forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. 
 Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisonei's of hope," etc. 
 Zech. ix: 9-11-12. “The redeemed of the Lord shall 
 return, (to and from where?) and come with singing unto 
 Zion-, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they 
 shall obtain gladness and joy ; and sorrow and mourning 
 shall flee away. Isa. li: What a precious promise ! But 
 to proceed: “Ye have 'soXd, yourselves (not sold by an- 
 other) for naught ; and ye shall be redeemed without mon- 
 ey. ” (This is easy to believe, if we are of those who en- 
 listed under Satan, and were cast out with him ; provided 
 we are redeemed at all.) Ib. lii: 3. “I, the Lord, have 
 
 called thee (Isaiah) to open the blind eyes, to bring out the 
 prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness, out 
 of the prison house.” Ib. xlii: 7. We have not all been 
 confined within the walls of a common “prison house,” 
 since we have been in these “tabernacles” of the flesh. 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 Then, if this is our first state of life, we are not of those to 
 whom Isaiah was sent, and therefore, we have no interest 
 in his welcome message ! 
 
 Now, compare the language used in the above prophe- 
 cies, with that employed in Rev. xii, and see whether the 
 startling fact revealed there, is not indubitably intimated 
 by the earliest prophets. 
 
 We will now look at a few remarks found in the New 
 Testament scriptures, and see whether the same idea pre- 
 vails there. 
 
 “And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on Mount Zion, 
 and Avith him a hundred forty and four thousand, having 
 his Father’s name written in their foreheads” . . “And 
 they sung as it were a new song before the throne,” . . 
 
 “and no man could learn that song but the” . . “;r- 
 dcemcd from the earth.” Note the peculiar phraseology — 
 a Lamb — Monnt Zion — no man could learn — but redeemed, 
 etc. Do not such terms and forms of expression couple 
 the old and new prophecies beautifully? 
 
 It seems that other men are to be there than “the re- 
 deemed from the earth.” If the other men are not the 
 steadfast angels who fell not, who are they? Then, if all 
 are to be designated hereafter bv the same name, mav Ave 
 not reasonably suppose that all AA'ere originally of the same 
 family ? It Avill hardly be insisted that unredeemed men 
 Avill be there, from this Avorld ! But to proceed : 
 
 “For the Son of man is come to seek and to saA^e that 
 which Avas lost.” (This is AAdiat Christ said he came to 
 do.) Luke xix: lo. The angel Avho visited Joseph, told 
 him that Jesus should “save his people from their sins.” 
 Mat. i: 2i. “While Ave Avere yet sinners, Christ died for 
 us, ” — “For if Avhen Ave Avere enemies, Ave AA'ere reconciled 
 to God by the death of his Son, much more being recoiicil- 
 ed, Ave shall be saved by his life.” 
 
 Noav, felloAV sinner, ansAver yourself honestly, must you 
 not believe that you "■voas lost,” at the time AA'hen Christ 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
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 came as a man ? Were you not an enemy of God before 
 Christ came into this world? And could you have been 
 ''' reconciled to God bj^ the death of his Son,” before you 
 had been at enmity with him? And must we not realize 
 the fact, that we have existed somewhere, before we came 
 into this present life, or esteem the Word of God as no 
 better than idle prate — mere twaddle ! 
 
 The writer has a much more exalted opinion of revealed 
 truth, and is not therefore ashamed of it ; but with another 
 who was also a very unpopular teacher oT his time, (“The 
 latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and 
 unloose. ”) I believe what the Bible says, in its most lit- 
 eral sense ; and that the gospel of Christ, when so believ- 
 ed, “ is the power of God unto salvation to every one that 
 believeth.” 
 
 It is to those who so believe, worth reading, and there- 
 fore, we will have more of it: “Then shall the King say 
 unto them on his right hand. Come, ye blessed of my 
 Father, inherit the k'ingdom prepared for you from the 
 foundation of the ivorld.'' — “Then shall he say also unto 
 them on the left hand. Depart from me, ye cursed, into 
 everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." Mat. 
 XXV : 34-41. Observe, those sentenced that day, are to be 
 first separated, “as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the 
 goats.” They will be, of course, mixed together, or no 
 separation would be necessary. The blessed are to inherit 
 the kingdom which was prepared for them “from the 
 foundation of the world.” The cursed are to be sent to 
 the final home, “prepared for the devil and his angels.” 
 Why not have sent the devil and his angels to their eternal 
 home at once? Why reserve them until the day on which 
 Adam’s race are to be judged, if they have no interest in 
 that judgment ? Why are those who are cast out of heaven 
 with Satan, and those of us, who will be lost, all called by 
 the same name, (the devil’s “angels” ) and sent to the same 
 3 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 place — at the same time, and for the same term — if we and 
 they are of entirely different races? Why was the eternal 
 abiding place prepared for us and them before this world 
 was made, if we were not then in being? But, I must for- 
 bear argument, and cite authority. 
 
 In I Pet. i: 17 to 20, we are informed that we are re- 
 deemed, (if at all) with the precious blood of Christ, “as 
 of a Lamb without blemish, and without spot. Who ver- 
 ily was foreordained before the foundation of the world.” 
 Why provide a Redeemer for us then? Adam had not 
 been made nor Eden planted ! Or, was it foreordained that 
 this world should be created — Adam and Eve put here to 
 propagate a new family of eternal spirits — that the devil 
 should tempt and deceive them into sin — that Christ might 
 save a few — but that Satan should have all the rest of us, 
 to make up some deficiency which he may have discover- 
 ed — -in the enormous population required to fill up the vast 
 regions of hell ? In this view, we can understand wdi)’ it 
 was that his Satanic Majesty delayed his removal to his 
 new and permanent dominions, until we are judged and 
 divided with him. The little squad which, it ma)' be sup- 
 posed, was cast out wuth him from heaven, may not have 
 been sufficient to satisfy his princely ambition, and there- 
 fore, it was foreordained that he should have the lion’s 
 share of the proceeds of another week’s work ! Is this a 
 satisfactory solution of the difficulty ? 
 
 Presuming that some, who have heard and read of the 
 power and wisdom and mercy of God to all his creatures, 
 will not feel satisfied wfith that e.xplanation, w'e will read 
 further. 
 
 Remember, that in Rev. xii : the Michael, w’ho fought 
 against the dragon, is also called Christ. He is elsewhere 
 called “The Arch-angel,” “The Angel of the Lord,” 
 “The Word,” and by various other appellations. Now, 
 by reference to Daniel x: 13-21, Ib. 12 : i to 4, and Jude 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 35 
 
 9, it will be perceived that the Michael of the Old Testa- 
 ment and Christ of the New are the same. And from 
 John i: i to 4, you will find that He made this world, (or 
 adapted it to the present use rather,) and made the bodies 
 of Adam and Eve also. 
 
 From the same Scriptures, it likewise appears that Satan 
 is uniformly represented as the adversary of Michael, — 
 the former as our enemy, and the latter as our friend. 
 Christ said : “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. ” 
 Luke x: 18. When was that? 
 
 Should any one doubt the identity of Michael with 
 Christ, they can satisfy themselves that they are the same, 
 by examining the evidence furnished by Dr. Gill, in his 
 comments on Jude 9, and Rev. 12. See also, “Warm 
 Heaveii,” p. 94. 
 
 Now observe, that the grace by which we were saved 
 (from the immediate and eternal punishment due for our 
 sins) “was given us in Christ Jesus before the world be- 
 gan,” 2 Tim. i: 9. If we were not in existence then, we 
 had not sinned : had we ? In that case, what need had we 
 of grace ? That grace, it seems, was a free gift — a present. 
 How can a present be given to one who is not in being ? 
 
 But let us read further on this subject. That grace was 
 given, “that they may recover themselves out of the snare 
 of the devil,” (that we may so recover ourselve.s) 2 Tim. 
 ii : 26. Can one recover himself out of a snare, in which 
 he never was caught ? It furthermore appears that those 
 to be recovered, were chosen in Christ, “before the foun- 
 dation of the world,” Eph. i: 4. Read, in this connec- 
 tion, I Pet. i : and note carefully 2 and 17. “And they 
 that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were 
 not written in the book of life from the foundation of the 
 world,” Rev. xvii: 8. (There is a day approaching when 
 many will be overwhelmed with wonder and astonishment. 
 It cannot be those who know and observe the truth — 
 “the truth shall make you free.”) 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 What meaneth such Scriptures as “ he hath chosen jus 
 in him before the foundation of the world” — “Whose 
 names were not written in the book of life from the foun- 
 dation of the world,” etc ? Many such passages are found 
 all throngh the Bible, and they must mean something. 
 
 ‘ ‘ I will establish my covenant with him (Isaac) for an 
 everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.” Gen. 
 xvii: 19. God giveth ‘do every seed his ozu}i body," i Cor. 
 XV : 38. “There is a natural body, and there is a spirit- 
 ual body,” Ibid 44. “Wherefore, when he (Christ) 
 Cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice and offering thou 
 wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me. ” Heb. x: 5. 
 “ If David then called him Lord, how is he his son? And 
 no man was able to answer him a word.” See Mat. xxii: 
 41 to 46. 
 
 Observe, of the last five quotations, it was not 07 ir, 
 but my, covenant which was to be established — M as not 
 the covenant here referred to, the one pursuant to which 
 this world was made, and man brought into this life? 
 
 Was it the spiritual body of Isaac, from which “his seed 
 after him ” was to come, or rvas not the seed of his natural 
 body intended? 
 
 Was it ^ natural, or spiritual body, M'hich Christ said was 
 prepared for him ? Was it his natural, or spiritual body, 
 which descended from King David? Remember, there is 
 both a natural bocljq and a spiritual bodj'. 
 
 What are rve to understand from the following texts : 
 “Ye were as sheep going astray ; but are now returned unto 
 the Shepherd, and Bishop of your souls.” (This rvas ad- 
 dressed, to Christians.) I Pet. ii : 25. 
 
 In Heb. xi : 13 to 16, after making mention of several 
 patriarchs and prophets, rvho had “died in the faith,” the 
 apostle says of them, that the)', “confessed that thc)- 
 M'ere strangers and pilgrims on earth. For the)' that sa)' 
 such things, declare plainly that the)' seek a countr)'. 
 And truly, if the)^ had been mindful of that cuuntry, from 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 37 
 
 whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to 
 have returned.” By reference to that chapter, it may be 
 seen that the sojourn in Egypt, was not the time intended, 
 or the place, where or when, they were “strangers and 
 pilgrims;” but these terms apply to all while on earth. 
 Now, if we never lived anywhere else, how can it be said 
 that a man who was born, raised, lived and died on the 
 same farm, or in the same city, was a “stranger and pil- 
 grim ” on earth ? Do not the instructions given in that 
 chapter apply to all of us ? If we are as those good men 
 of old, we must have conic out of some country to get here. 
 But as with us, so was it with them, for it appears that 
 they, too, were not “mindful of that country from whence 
 they came out.” (St. Paul knew our origin. See Text, 
 
 p. i66.) 
 
 Does it appear mysterious that a man should have lived 
 in a rational, active sense, and as a full grown man, and 
 after that “become as a little child” — and grow up to the 
 full stature of a man again ? Strange as it may seem, that 
 certainly is true of John the Baptist, if Jesus Christ was the 
 Messiah promised. “The voice of him that crieth in the 
 wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord,” etc. Isa. xl; 
 3. “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall pre- 
 pare the way before me,” etc. Mai. iii: i. “ Behold, I will 
 send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great 
 and dreadful day of the Lord.” Mai. iv: 5. The Baptist 
 said of himself: “This is he that was spoken of by the 
 prophet Esaias (Isaiah) saying : The voice of one crying in 
 the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his 
 paths straight.” Mat. iii: 3. And of him the Savior 
 said : “This is Elias, (Elijah) which was for to come.” 
 Mat. xi: 14. And again: “But I say unto you, that Elias 
 (Elijah) is come already, and they (the Jews) knew him 
 not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed.” Ib. 
 xvii: II. There was a man sent from God, whose name 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 was John,” etc. John i: 5, et seq. See, for more of this, 
 “ War in Heaven," page 192. 
 
 Jesus Christ, who was before known as Michael the Arch- 
 angel, (as we have seen,) was also“ sent from God” into 
 this world, and entered into a human body, prepared ex- 
 pressly for him, (as already shown) and lived in this world 
 as a man. He was crucified — his spirit separated from his 
 body ; arose from the dead — his spirit having entered his 
 body again ; and he returned to heaven. Here we have 
 two cases, one of John the Baptist, and the other of Jesus 
 Christ, in which pre-existent spirits are known to have en- 
 tered infant bodies, and which bodies aftenvards grew to 
 full maturity, just as others do. (Should any one doubt, 
 however, the separate existence of God the Son from Je- 
 hovah the Father, such skeptic is invited to read the sev- 
 enteenth chapter of John, and to construe it just as he 
 would any other writing, the meaning of which he really 
 wants to get, and all such doubt will be removed. There 
 is no one fact more clearly taught in the whole Bible than 
 is that important one.) 
 
 It may be difficult to understand how a full grown spirit 
 can enter an infant body, and grow up with it, to its orig- 
 inal size, form and features again. We know but little of 
 the consistence or nature of the spiritual body," of which 
 St. Paul repeatedly speaks ; but if we admit that it is highly 
 elastic, and capable of compression to a comparativ'ely very 
 small size, (as we have good reason to believe that it is,) 
 much of that difficulty will be removed. Be that as it may, 
 we have to believe that two cases are on record, in each of 
 which mature spirits have entered infant bodies and grown 
 up with them, or I'eject the authority on which our holy 
 religion was based and now stands ! 
 
 Is not this true ? The wise man has said ; “ The thing 
 
 that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which 
 is done, is that which shall be done ; and there is no nezu 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 39 
 
 thing under the sun." Eccl. i: 9. Has this scripture no 
 meaning? If you so think, read the context, and bear in 
 mind that angelic spirits and spirits of deceased men both 
 look alike and like men, and have often been mistaken for 
 men. Of this we have sufficient evidence in the Old Tes- 
 tament Scriptures, as to angelic spirits, and in the spirit 
 which appeared to St. John in Patinos, we have an instance 
 of the appearance of dead men, for he informed that good 
 old apostle himself that he was one of the old prophets, 
 sent by Jesus Christ and as his messenger. Rev. xix : 10 
 and xxii: 9-16. 
 
 It may be well, to call attention here, to certain forms of 
 expression which are frequently found in the Kble, but 
 mostly in the Old Testament, some of which have been 
 cited already, but for a different purpose, and which might 
 mislead the casual reader, and particularly those who are 
 not aware of the views entertained by all ancient writers 
 as to the origin and nature of the “spirit which is in man.” 
 In Gen. xvii: 19, we learn that God said to Abraham of 
 Isaac, “I will establish my covenant with him, for an ever- 
 lasting covenant, and with his seed after him. ” The prophet 
 Nathan, in delivering his message from God to King 
 David, said: “And when thy days are fulfilled, and thou 
 shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after 
 thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and will establish 
 his kingdom. II Samuel vii: 12. Again, “The Lord hath 
 sworn in truth unto David ; he will not turn from it ; of 
 the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. ” Ps. cxxxii : 
 II. Now, by reference to Acts ii: 30, and Rom. i: 3, you 
 will find that all these prophecies had reference to the 
 bodies and not the spirits of Isaac, David, and the Savior. 
 And in Rom. iv: i, you may learn that St. Paul considered 
 himself and other Jews, as the children of Abraham 
 only, “as pertaining to the flesh.” Should it be desired 
 to know in what sense that apostle understood other Jews 
 
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 ORIGIN OF- MAN. 
 
 as his relations, you can find that he esteemed them only 
 as his “brethren, kinsmen according to the flesh,” by read- 
 ing Rom. ix: 3-5. All such terms and expressions of 
 the Old Testament writers are fully explained in the New 
 Testament. And we also learn there that we all have tu'o 
 fathers. St. Paul says: “Furthermore, we have had fath- 
 ers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them rev- 
 erence ; shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the 
 Father of oar spirits dindWwe." Heb. xii; 9. 
 
 That the soul can live and has lived without the body, 
 is manifest from i Kings xvii : 21-22: (“and the soul of 
 the child came into him again, and he revived ;”) and Luke 
 viii: 55: (the case of Jairus’ daughter, “and her spirit 
 came again,” etc.) 
 
 ‘ ‘ There was a man sent from God whose name was John. ” 
 He came to bear witness of “ the true light which lighteth 
 every man that cometh into the world.” John i: 6-9. As 
 we have seen, that was Elijah the prophet, who came to 
 earth again to prepare the way of the Lord. Pie came 
 from where God is, and Christ was, to this world. “The 
 true light lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” 
 Does not this look very much like we all came from some- 
 where into this life ? 
 
 Read the eighth chapter of John, beginning at the 
 twelfth verse, and reflect upon what you read. Jesus said 
 to certain Jews: “Ye are from beneath; I am from above; 
 ye are of this world; I am not of this world.” Thus we 
 are informed that Christ came here from above, and that we 
 came from beneath, and that he and those to whom he ad- 
 dressed his remarks had met here. Again, “I speak that 
 which I have seen with my P'ather; and y& do that which 
 ye have seen with your father.” And lastly, “Ye are of 
 your father, the devil.” 
 
 Reader, what have you seen your father, the dezil do, 
 since you have been in your fleshly tabernacle? You must 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 41 
 
 have seen him do something, at sometime and somewhere, 
 if what the Savior said is true. Is not that clear? If you 
 confess that what he said is true, you thereby admit that 
 you’ and Satan are old acquaintances, and that you have 
 long been his disciple ! Is not this true ? Do not reject 
 these solemn truths, as soitr grapes !” Remember, that 
 the most valuable medicines for the sick, are often quite 
 disagreeable to the taste. And Dr. Paul has prescribed 
 “belief of the tiaith,” as the only safe and reliable remedy 
 for ailments of the soul. Try it. 
 
 Is not the evidence resulting, as the most natural and 
 reasonable conclusion, from the scriptures quoted as afford- 
 ing inferential proof of our identity with the fallen angels, 
 sufficient to produce a strong presumption, in favor of this 
 belief? Is not such impression greatly confirmed, by the 
 fact that the inspired writers all believed in the pre-exist 
 ence of the soul ? Is not such presumption, so confirmed, 
 sufficient to require all who admit the inspiration of the 
 Bible to believe that what the Angel of God told St. John 
 in Patmos is trne, and true in its plain, most natural and 
 literal interpretation? I think so ; what do you say, reader? 
 
 To enable every anxious inquirer after truth to remove 
 any doubt which may yet linger on the mind as to our 
 origin, it is further remarked, ist. That no evidence can be 
 found in God’s word in support of either one or the other 
 of the popular theories of the soul. 2d. That not more than 
 one text of Scripture in fifty, which tends directly to sus- 
 tain the proposition that we are of Satan’s expelled follow- 
 ers, has been cited in this pamphlet. And for proof of 
 this, the reader is referred to the parables of our Savior 
 generally, and particularly to those recorded in Luke xv; 
 and 3. That, excluding the plain revelation of that fact, and 
 every other scripture above quoted to support it, there is 
 far more scriptural evidence to sustain this theory of our 
 being than any other. For verily the Bible nowhere con- 
 tradicts itself! 
 
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 ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 And lastly, for the benefit of any who may still prefer to 
 adhere to the modern theory— that the soul is created at 
 the time the body is born ; or to the other — that the soul 
 and body came into being together just so! — all kich 
 teachers and thinkers are affectionately referred, for grave 
 refiection, to the first eight verses of the third chapter of 
 St. Paul’s second letter to Timothy. It is a dangerous 
 thing to resist the truth.'' 
 
ORIGIN OF MAN. 
 
 43 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 This writing has already drawn itself out far beyond my 
 intention, and must be cut off speedily. It is now but a 
 very imperfect Coinpcndiiun" of the argument, and on 
 the main question alone, which is discussed in the original 
 work. Those who may so desire, can find there at least, 
 a brief consideration of all collateral questions, and which 
 are necessarily connected with and grow out of the chief 
 one, so as to constitute an intelligible system. For in- 
 stance, such questions are noticed in that book as relate 
 to the existence of God; authenticity of the Bible; a fu- 
 ture state ; eternal retribution ; salvation of infants ; the 
 object and extent of revelation ; why not better under- 
 stood ; rules for construction ; when and for what purpose 
 this world was made; the divinity of Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 RESUME. 
 
 What is man — whence his origin? 
 
 Long has been a mooted question. 
 
 Some say he is only a brute. 
 
 By nature chanced — her noisiest fruit. 
 
 The Pope says he’s God’s perfect work, 
 
 Created when he body took. 
 
 No, quoth the Protestant, by heaven ! 
 
 The soul and body both are given 
 From parents vile, who fell in Eden ; 
 
 As man’s depravity has proven. 
 
 Thus stood the quarrel when the book 
 Of inspiration first we took. 
 
 And looking through her pages bright. 
 
 The startling fact is brought to light — 
 
 That we were once angels celestial. 
 
 For sinning there, found home terrestrial, 
 
 And, after suffring many evils, 
 
 Have been put here in earthen vessels ; 
 
 And all are either, (in these travels,) 
 
 Clean washed, unwashed, or whitewashed devils ! 
 

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DARWINIANISM AND SPIRITUALISM. 
 
 It was intended to give more space in this pamphlet to 
 the above twin systems, but it is feared that these pages 
 have ahead}" become too many to secure a general read- 
 ing on a subject so stale, and which is so lightly esteemed 
 in this fast age, as are all such as relate to things of no more 
 practical value than a future life! 
 
 I must, therefore, content myself, for the present, with 
 the observations and authorities which follow, and await 
 some future occasion to notice more fully these fascinating 
 delusions of the devil. 
 
 The theoiy of our being, which is advocated in War in 
 Heaven, is, (as all thoughtful readers must observe,) a com- 
 plete refutation of the ingenious system of ruolution, as held 
 and advocated by Darwin, Huxley, and others, as well as 
 of spiritualism, also, which rests chiefly upon it, to all who 
 will accept the truth as revealed in the Bible. And that, 
 too, without having made any direct reference to either in 
 that work. For in that we have a reasonable and scrip- 
 tural answer to each of the two important questions: “What 
 is man ? ” and : ‘ ‘ Why are Ave here ? ” On these two ques- 
 tions, “hang all the law and the prophets.” 
 
 To the 'trained mind who clear!}’ sees. 
 
 In the light of Revelation, 
 
 What he now is — what he has been — 
 
 Error seems infatuation. 
 
 Before the discerning eye of such an one, all the beauti- 
 ful theories of the learned naturalist Avhich conflict with 
 the truth as revealed in God’s Word, and eveiy other in- 
 fidel system, must dissolve and melt away, as would the 
 driv^en snows of December beneath an August sun. 
 
 If all the wonderful demonstrations are made, and the 
 
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 DARWINIANISM AND SPIRITUALISM. 
 
 mysterious things accomplished, as claimed by devotees of 
 spiritualism and believed by many people of good judg- 
 ment, in other respects at least, we have in such miracu- 
 lous workings another incontrovertible evidence of the 
 truth of Revelation. And whether such strange things are 
 really now being done or not, the writer has no opinion to 
 offer which would be of any considerable value to others, 
 and none, therefore, is given here. 
 
 But “if these things be so,” we have in that fact not 
 only proof conclusive of the divinity of Jesus Christ, but 
 we learn, therefrom also, that we are now in that last and 
 wicked age, which he foretold should precede the end of 
 time and temporal things. 
 
 It is therefore only important with a view to learning, as 
 nearly as practicable, how long the present order of things 
 will continue with our world — to know whether the spirit- 
 ual manifestations, which it is said and by many believed 
 to be real, are such ; or whether they are mere delusions, 
 the result of mere artifice and trickery, as others insist. 
 
 For, whether such deceivers have already been turned 
 loose among us or not, it is certain that, if it has not it 
 will be done before and near the end of time. Few events, 
 if any, have been more clearly foretold. His disciples 
 asked the Savior when “and what shall be the sign of Thy 
 coming and of the end of the world?” He told them of 
 many things which should previously transpire, and con- 
 tinuing, said: “And many false prophets (teachers) shall 
 rise, and shall deceive many” — “and shall show 
 and wonders ; insomuch that, if it were possible, they would 
 deceive the very elect, ” etc. — Matt, xxiv: 3-11-24. See 
 also Rev. xiii: 13-14. St. John warns us: “Beloved, be- 
 lieve not every spirit, but try the spirits.” “ Every spirit 
 that confesseth not that Jesus Chri.st is come in the flesh 
 is not of God.”— I John iv: i-,2-3. Therefore, all spirits 
 that deny Christ, and the things taught b)’ him, as we 
 
DARWINIANISM AND SPIRITUALISM. 
 
 47 
 
 must understand, are sent by the devil. Are not depart- 
 ed spirits of bad men employed to deceive the living? 
 
 But more of this: “Now the spirit speaketh expressly, 
 that in the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, 
 giving heed to sedneing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” — 
 I Tim. iv: I. In i Thess. ii: i to I2, St. Paul gives us 
 the same warning, but more fully, and advises us also, both 
 of the danger to which we are exposed in this regard, and 
 of the reasons why the enemy is able to deceive us, or 
 rather zvhat class of people he can so deceive and why. 
 He says : ‘ ‘ Let no man deceive you by any means. ” “For 
 the mystery of iniquity doth already work : only he who 
 now letteth will let (hinder) until he be taken out of the 
 way, and then shall that Wicked be revealed” — “Even 
 him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, zvith all 
 poiucr and signs and fying zvonders, and with all deceivable- 
 ness of unrighteousness in them that perish ; because they 
 received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 
 And for this ca7isc, God shall send them strong delusion, 
 that they should believe a lie ; that they all might be 
 damned who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in un- 
 righteousness. ” 
 
 Are men and women to be lost forever on account of 
 erroneous belief? Does not this passage look very much 
 that way? King Solomon, who is generally thought to 
 have been a pretty good judge in such matters, appears to 
 have been decidedly of that opinion also : See Prov. xvi : 
 2, and xxi: 2: “What I say unto you, I say unto all: 
 Watch!” 
 
 For further comment on these Scriptures, all mu.st be 
 left to themselves, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, 
 and whose unerring instructions all can have who will in- 
 voke such aid, in the fear of God and in love of the U'uth. 
 

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