me that Moses wrote all ever claimed by the bible advocates, what does that prove? That the bible was true? It proves that Moses was one of the most degraded of the priestocracy, an infamous libeler of his God, a base calumniator of truth, and entirely unworthy of trust.

Now, whether bible lies go under the name of prophecies, miracles, oracles, mysteries, they as lies ought to be impeached and discarded by the honest world.

Well, it is most difficult to get a portion of the world to believe that the priestocracy lie. They cannot see the object. Was not one-third of the land of Egypt enough to corrupt the old hive, and taint the new swarms, as Moses was taught in all the learning of the Egyptians, at the head of all which, of course, was that of the priestocracy? Has any curious investigator analyzed this whole subject, and seen the immense bribes to perverted mind, that maketh and unmaketh the gods of its idolatry? "The revenues of the Mexican clergy exceed twenty millions of dollars a year. The value of their real estate is enormous. In the district of Mexico the total real estate is worth fifty millions of dollars; half of it belongs to the clergy." Now, this peculiar faith superseded that of the Aztecs, who enjoyed great privileges. The land has not changed the tyranny and bribery of peculiar faiths, in changing owners. The real discontent causes must be remedied-but no radical ultra views can be a conservative revolution, that requires conservative principles forever, to confirm its justice and necessity. All faith is bad, that does not full justice to conservative principles. Do full justice to the Creator, and then the world will know that the bible is a blasphemous libeler of God.

The world needs the true spirit of conservative reform. Did Moses establish a republic? It was a military despotism, as potent as any autocracy on earth. His ukase was the most plenipotent, that carried fanaticism therewith, the end of which is not yet The remnants of his nation will have to learn of higher and purer themes, than through the degraded code of barbarism that they now have.

come.

Moderns with shame, if not with wisdom, will have to quit the field, to which priestocracies are utterly incompetent, else they will have to let the exploded vulgar barbarisms, the Jew oracles, get the better of them.

NUMBERS.-XVI. 26.

WHAT more formidable decree could any sovereign of earth make, whether righteous or not, when it was the displeasure of the priestocracy, that was enough?

Now, be not more verdant than these poor, deluded, priest-commanded wretches. The main machinery, ever to be borne in mind by the reader, is false pretences, and nothing else. 43. "And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation. 44. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying." It is a matter of no moment whether these two men went near the tabernacle to aid a ventriloquist or not, it was all the same to the corrupt priestocracy, who fixed up this whole history to suit their profession, as they were perfectly irresponsible to any power, let alone truth and reason, as they have invoked a still higher power, the faith of a credulous world, and that is all necessary. Give the priestocracy this power, the faith of a credulous people, and they can make a fanatical world.

45. "Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them, as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.' And to control the meeting, Aaron was to make atonement by the advice of the chief, who said,-46. “For there is wrath gone out from the Lord." Where is the proof of the plague? The jugglery of hand was some, but the jugglery of mind is most.

The priestocracy could never have succeeded unless they had lied, and lied exceedingly and greatly all the time.

Short of all that, was too common an affair for their credence. As they were to be paid for lying, they sought the most profitable lies; and the lies of the priestocracy have surpassed all in profit, surely. Behold, they have done much, they have only killed in these two matters, very nearly fifteen thousand people. But, after all, the worst plague, that of the priestocracy, was left.

They then resort to another miracle, the rods! Had this plague, that might have happened as a pestilence on the tide of time, been so murderous, it was enough to convince any rational, much less peculiar people.

Bible mysteries, miracles and prophecies are all right. Twelve rods were selected and laid by in the tabernacle, and examined " on the morrow,” and buds, blossoms, and fruit of almonds were on one. None of this was prepared by the time? But how came so many thousands destroyed? Were they truly destroyed, or is all this part fiction, legend, history of jugglery, legerdemain, one of the

most curious pieces of mosaics ever propagated in the republic of letters? How much collusion was there among the Jewish masses affiliated, whether of the priests or people?

Can we be asleep to the state of the present dynasties of priestocracies? Do not the present people help aid? Can the drama, the disgrace to the world, be kept up without all the actors? Can the play go on without the audience? Superstition is the master genius, and credulity is the substitute for faith.

Why are these things not kept up now as of old, as human nature, and the God of human nature are the same, as God is immutable? Falsehood has to be framed to get around all this. God does not teach by miracles, they are the pretensions of the ignorant mass. He teaches by science and philosophy, that caused God's character to be truly appreciated indeed.

Behold the function of the priests, ch. xviii. 3, "only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they nor ye also die. 4. And a stranger shall not come nigh unto you” (Aaron). 7. "And the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." Could Brahmin furnish a baser division into castes? Is there any greater species of downright murder than the injunction to the stranger? 8 and 9. The Levites' portion. 12. How rich "all the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the first fruits of them which they shall offer unto the Lord, them have I given thee. 13. And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine." What oblations of meat offerings, too. These were the deepest curses of taxation. 17. "But the firstling of a cow, &c., thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the Lord." As if the God of the universe could be pleased with vile sacrifices of blood of animated nature. None but the most stupid priestocracy and their degraded minions, could ever pretend to this base libel made through the mouths and pens of hypocrites of a peculiar imbecile. 18. "And the flesh of them shall be thine." 21. "And behold I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel, for an inheritance." Of this, a tenth part went to the chief priest. What greater enslavement to the world than is here embodied? 22. "Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die." That is, lest they find out the degraded tricks of the priestocracy, who say, thus saith the Lord, and never once wished the people to appreciate the majestic silence of the real Almighty, whose works alone speak to mind. Ch. xix. The ashes of the red heifer, a purification for sin! What ridiculous rites and ceremonies, even with savages. Coming into a tent where the dead was, made unclean for seven days. Was there a worse priestocracy-despotism? If the person called unclean did not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. Who are they that seek to bring this foul despotism on freemen? Are they madmen, or felons? They are felons, to honesty of mind. When these people murdered the possessors of the soil, they did mountains of prodigies through their priestocracy. But what should induce the last to do so? Ambition, avarice, that prompt the world forever. The tithe of everything in ten years, counts one hundred per cent. In Alabama, estimating the worth of the cotton crop at twenty millions of dollars, we should see that amount in the hands of the clergy in ten years. But we must not forget that the chiefs also had the first choice, and a large amount besides. What a revenue! What a revenue now, is there in church countries. And for what? A non-entity. Ah! who would not be eloquent for such an amount? But let now this be a disinterested thing, a voluntary matter, without speculation and trade; let it be decided that when a cent is collected, that it detracts, and our word for it, this delusion, this imposition, this superstition, would die out in one generation. Let pure patriots think of these things, like good citizens.

Deuteronomy, ch. iii. 23. “And I (Moses) besought the Lord at that time saying, 24. O Lord God, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand; for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might." This speech of Moses and his wise men, kills all their virtue about their proper appreciation of the universal God. Ch. xiv. 2. “For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all nations that are upon the earth." This decides that none but a peculiar god, could have a peculiar people. The bible authors and advocates are most welcome to their own position, and cannot with any logical consistency, permit him to be appropriated by the rest of the world that had already the God of the universe. It is a peculiar position that claims a peculiar god. Hear the imperial decree of the priestocracy. Ch. xvii. 12. "And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest, &c., even that man shall die," &c. This was a glorious

republic for the absolutism of priestocracy. Hear the fiat of the savage, and take the bible, take all.

Ch. xx., v. 16. But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth. Ch. x., v. 19. “Love ye therefore the stranger." Is this the world policy now? The Jews were polygamists, and maintained the right of primogeniture.

The priests were judges. Ch. xxv. If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2. And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number." The judge-priests had power enough to create their own influence. 5. What a low bestial law, to force a brother to take his brother's widow?

What enlightened lady would entrust her rights in marrige to the tender mercies of this code, that gave power to the husband to divorce himself from his wife, when "she found no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her?” would occur enough often, without this despotic temptation.

This

Who wrote the Deuteronomy after Moses died? Ask who wrote the numberless bibles, and their diversified editions? Who endorses the statements as facts of the five books? None-not one. Ask not this question, for it cannot be answered. But all such seemed so good. Did a state felon, Murrell, never preach for sinister purposes ? Did world-felons, the priestocracy, never perpetrate their codes for world-power?

Joshua, ch. vi. The priests blew with their trumpets, and Jericho was taken! The priests always had the blowing and the lying, 21. They (the people) utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and thus Joshua acted with several cities.

Ch. x., v. 13. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 14. For the Lord fought for Israel." The solution is partly in 12. Then spake Joshua—“ sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon." Who endorses this? None less than God. Does he? No. Then it is false, as lies of priestocracy.

The writing in the book of Jasher is no more to the fact, than in the book of Munchausen.

Where is the fulfilment of the prophecies about the everlasting possessions of the Jews, and about the Jebusites these days? Nowhere. There was no prophecy to

fulfil.

Judges, ch. ii, v. 12. "And (the children of Israel) they forsook the Lord God of their fathers--and followed other gods. Ch. iii. 7. They forgot the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

The children of Israel were enslaved for several years by the neighboring nations; from the Midianites they fled to dens, caves, and strong-holds. The chief men of Israel were polygamists. Gideon had many wives. That proves them unworthy lights of civilization. Ch. x. v. 6. The children of Israel served many gods-as the gods of Syria. 8. (The Philistines) vexed and oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years, &c. Afterwards for forty years. The tale of Sampson, his strength being in his hair, is a gross fable, not physiological; also, as is the destruction of the house, by taking away the two pillars. xvii. 6. In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. There was necessity for laws, not for kings. Sampson had been a great judge of Israel. Enlightened people, those judges. xviii. 7. And there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in anything; they put nature to blush in their actions; even their Levites were open fornicators, and could seek to go to the house of the Lord." Had they ever seen that house, in Israel? Take away the shame, that such a code be presented in gentlemen's parlors, much less in the court of conscience. Good citizens do not wish to return to the days of barbarism.

I. Samuel, ch. ii. v. 2. There is none holy as the Lord for there is none besides thee." These offset all prophecies, affecting to give credence to the New Testament. Astronomers know no such earth, and monotheists, of course, can know no such god as were peculiar to the Jews, and evinced in this chapter. 10. The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth." We know none such nor the pillars, that inspiration affected for the earth. 12. Now the sons of Eli (the priest) were sons of Belial." These were one of the great sects of priests in Judea. 14. All that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took for himself. One of the encroachments of the priestocracy.

Ch. iv. v. 11. And the ark of God was taken." And this was sacred, was it? But the Philistine gods were made to fall before it--if we are to believe this side of the tale. Where is the account by the Philistines? Samuel advised the people to put away strange gods.

Ch. viii. v. 3. And (Samuel) his sons turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. The corruption of the judges or priests induced the people to prefer a king to rule over them, as the least tyranny. 21. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord! And this seer or prophet made the king. Samuel commanded Saul the king. xv. 33. Samuel hewed Agag in pieces-whom Saul had spared.

The power of the pope was once greater than that of foolish kings, that submitted to it.

Ch. xvi. v. 4. And Samuel did that which the Lord spake; and came to Bethlehem: and the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, comest thou peaceably ?” No wonder, poor fellows, it was as much as their soul was worth to resist this supreme dictator of the priestocracy. Hear how wisely he speaks. 7. But the Lord looketh on the heart (in regard to David). 14. But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.

What a libel on God-of course this is not his word.

Samuel was dictator-and held the selection of the kings, and anointed them. Ch. xxiv. v. 6. And he (David about Saul) said unto his men, The Lord forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against the Lord's anointed." God save the king-the king can do no wrong. The witch of Endor raised the dead Samuel. What is easier, for a psychologist to make the passive mind believe it sees such sights? That is practicable surely. But mind-jugglery, under false pretences, is the capital. How easily did the priestocracy appreciate everything beneficial to themselves. The capital of false pretences was the stock of the priestocracy.

PSALMS.

Ps. xi. David alludes to himself. Why address God, who needs not his vaunting? The god of the Jews was addressed by David, but also sounding his own praise and affectation of glory.

David affected to be on very familiar terms indeed.

He speaks as if his god would make him the chief of the whole earth. The peculiar god was impotent.

Ps. xxix. Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength. David could sing, or cause others to sing for him, beautiful psalms, not do fine actions. Is not this the world?

Ps. xl. v. 9. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation.

The height of this peculiar god's ambition was against the heathen. As the Jews thought and spoke, so thought and spoke this peculiar god. Fine prophets, these. Nathan prophecies to David about his guilt, adultery, and murder. Then David prophecies to the Jews and all enemies!

He is agreeable, but deceitful, not trustworthy! A hypocrite in society! We must, surely, if we know the world, decide on the best analysis of all the varied relations that try the souls of men, all this for king David. And we look at both sides.

David seems to be absorbed about his enemies, and abundantly invokes his peculiar god on this subject. It is very clear that this Jewish god was as peculiar to that nation as the gods of other nations were peculiar to those nations, and what is conclusive proof, enlightened mind cannot appropriate any such peculiar god.

Was David the especial favorite of the God of the universe? No one in his sound mind will pretend to any such absurdity.

The words of David's psalms are for himself, yet the meaning is wrested therefrom by insidious priestocracy, as to other leaders of sects. David's psalms are pretty, but what were his deeds? lxxii. v. 1. For Solomon to God. 11. All nations shall serve him." Not so fast, David. Flatterers might say that. 7. In his days shall the righteous flourish." Was that near the truth? lxxvii. v. 18. The voice of thy thunder (God's) was in the heaven.” The peculiar Jewish god, with all the priestocracy, never could keep the rebellious Jews right. Now, he must have had little intrinsic power, as mind and the God of the universe can keep the whole world right. The marvelous things boasted of could not be effectual, whence we must necessarily infer that all miracles, prophecies, and peculiarities were mere gewgaws for grown up children of that dark age and country, not for the present light of science, that teaches the division of the

world into continents and oceans, and of the universe into a glorious union of solar systems.

The priestocracy could not make the people believe in this god, to whom, when associated with the trio of others of the trinity, the whole world cannot be dragooned, despite of all the barbarous brute force of its odious tyranny. lxxviii. v. 22. "Because they believed not in God. 32. For all this they sinned still, and believed not in his wondrous works. 36. Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues."

The only sincere religion can be between mind and the God of the universe; all else is nothing.

This peculiar god was often angry; how could he be otherwise; his mouth-pieces and wire-pullers, the priestocracy, could not make their machinery work as well as they wished; it was not so available, and of course they got furiously angry. As to mind, that governs the world, they had thrown that overboard. 58. "For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him (God) to jealousy with their graven images. 49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them." The peculiar god of the Jews had to have angels in his machinery of world-government, but not so the Governor of the universe, who lays the first on the shelf. 48. "He gave their flocks to hot thunderbolts.” Wonderful science even of a king, who, though assuming to be inspired, appears the ignorant impostor. After all their bibles, they know not the God of the universe, the only pure God; they talked with brassy impudence and blasphemy of things they knew not of. How often did they arrogate to know God's secrets, libeling him about his anger and various qualities. How often did they change the resolves of the Immutable God! But their peculiar god was a changeable being. lxxxvi. v. 10. "Thou art God alone."__ But the priestocracy made him a part of themselves, a polytheism. lxxxix. v. 6. “For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? 11. "The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine." But the universe was God Almighty Creator's. 4. "Thy seed will I (God) establish forever, and build up thy throne to all generations." This god had no such gift; as proof, there is no such result. Was the world to be deceived into the belief of perpetual royalty? Was the bible a tory perjury-book, to fasten for all time to come, on mind kept in leading-strings, all despotic errors? 3. "I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant." Here we see the

vices of orientalism, that flatters kings, and records the most blasphemous lies to uphold them. Here is union of church and state, the most insidious of the world's tyranny and man's vassalage. Mind requires us not to look after David, the adulterer and assassin, whatever vulgar faith teaches, corrupting his own brave general, Joab, to murder, but use its own religious resources. How comes it that David, an adulterer and murderous assassin, should preach for the world's benefit by inspiration? What humbuggery, what morals of such bibles! If repentant, he was a culprit, unworthy to appear as God's messenger before the world. He was the messenger as all the ministers of any peculiar gospel of a peculiar god, legitimately subject, as he was, to the world's criticism. But inspiration carries with it enough to kill all pretensions to any exalted aspirations before the God of the universe.

Ps. cxxxv. What sectarianism against the balance of the world. This the people, uttered against Egypt.-Great nations and mighty kings, whose land was given for our heritage. All this was paid back by two daughters, the Christians and Mahometans, who despised the Jews and each other.

Ps. cxxxvi. "(The Lord,) that made great lights: 9. The moon and the stars to rule by night." All pretending to astronomy must know that the stars and moon, even, know no such false position. Inspiration premises certain and exact science, as the source whence it comes. If god knows, then inspiration is true. This inspiration is false, as the peculiar source whence it came. But the priests, prophets, and kings may affect more sanctity; who has sanctified them especially? They give no proof at all! How are they peculiarly better, seeing that they affect something peculiar that is worthless. They are condemned by their false doctrines and pretences, that wind them up. They caricatured their peculiar god as angry with lightning. We believe this is a consummate libel. The equanimity of God is utterly above all that.

Ps. cxlvii. v. 11. "The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him! 19. (God) he showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. 20. He hath not dealt so with any nation; and as for his judgments, they have not known them." Vain and ignorant egotist! How superficial art thou? The wise of the world would earnestly pray that they had not known them. cxlviii. v. 3. "Praise (the Lord) him all ye stars of light."

Are the stars obedient to his peculiar god, or to the God of the universe, who does