The autobiography of a crystal in the formation of the solar system

Front matter

#L]BPtARY OF CONGRESS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ^

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Dedication

TO

THE CHRIST OF GOD,— ETERNAL RIGHT ;-

THE EVERLASTING SON; — THE KING IMMORTAL AND INVISIBLE:

Preface

quiet devotion in the frost-work of their crystalline death. Yet we have hitherto overlooked the just inference from this fact, and begotten and cultivated, and philosophized upon these inspirations of life and light, as the mere adjuncts of a brutalizing mortality ; the playthings and support of eternal death; the legal sacrifices of the cruel ensanguine blood, to maintain its infernal fire in the lesser pit of a corrupt heart, by the pulsings of which we breathe, and which demands the whole efforts of mortality to sustain the diseased and dead carcass of its being; which seeks salvation by destruction, wallowing in the mire of its own lusts, the cruelty and consumption of the grave ; seeking refuge in the confusion and war of hell, from the terror of its own desolation, in the wilderness and the void.

Shall we not now at length open our eyes, and look upon things in the rational order of their existence? As established and instructed in Justice and Equity, Mercy and Goodness, Light and Love ; by the Truth, Righteousness, and Life of the Omnipotent and Immortal One, — who hath sworn by himself, "That to these in him, every knee shall bow, every tongue confess," — ^and maintained his word upon the carcasses of our slain over six thousand years : the full week appointed in this merciful arrest of Judgment for our deliberate choice. Let us wed our names and symbols once and forever to their proper entities, exalt "the Seven Spirits of God," the principles of his life, Truth and Justice ruling in the heavens; Equity and Right on earth; Justice and Judgment in the void ; with Light in heaven and Peace on earth as the result of these ; and relegate all others, '' our familiars,'" to //^m' proper place, as the deni07is of the void.