A compendium of The bible of the religion of science

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Preface

This Compendium is calculated to give but little more than a summary of the texts that constitute the foundation principles of the science of association, religion and government. Wherever you have a religion that the professors claim was made by God, there must be a government made by the same Grod to match it ; to make harmony. The only trouble among the people where they have this union of church and state is : Who shall be their rulers and priests. This part the people decide, if their gods have done all the rest. If you have a government made by man, as this United States government was, you must have a rehgion made by man, on humanitarian principles, to be in harmony with it. To assist people in making this religion I put forth this humble volume, hoping it will draw attention to this most important subject;

INTEODUCTION.

The question may be properly asked : Why do you propose to establish a new religion? Because there is a large class of learned, thoughtful people who have outgrown all the old religions, believe them false in pretended facts, unjust and immoral in principle, and wholly unfit to guide and give comfort to good, intelligent, independent thinking people.

It is to give comfort and joy to this large class of people, which is at present growing rapidly in all enlightened countries. This religion is especially calculated to reach and give the same consolations that the old religions give to the ignorant and superstitious. Its principles have arisen among the most enlightened people of this enlightened age, andhave come to stay ; its intelligent advocates have made many important discoveries, that agree with the demonstrated knowledge of the material sciences, and are bound together in a harmonious whole, that will draw all the intelligent people into the bands of wisdom and love. Spiritualism is a science governed by the law that governs spirits. It is not a set of miracles of God, made under the influence of love or hate, or when God is angry or pleased.

The God of Science abides by law. He performs all his works under the control of law, or is guided by it, and proves his existence by the laws of nature and spirit.

The gods of all other religions are man-made, lawless despots. The only proof that is presented of their existence, is the assertion that they can andhave made miracles in violation of the laws of nature and spirit.

The greatest study of the miracle or word god religionists is to get faith, or to increase it in their feelings.

The greatest study of the scientific religionists is to get knowledge and wisdom.

We often hear of people loving not wisely but too well and that they had too much love and faith, but never that they had too much knowledge and wisdom.

The faith religionists believe, that the best and most innocent of animals, birds and men, must be sacrificed to save the worst of mankind.

The scientific religionists believe that it is necessary to sacrifice the worst of beasts, birds and man to save the best of mankind, to bring about the millenium that is so much desired by the people of earth. They do not think that such a government will be established by the worst of men.

The Christian religion is a summary of all the ancient religions. It contains the principles of all their schemes of salvation and their various plans of worship, to attract the attention of the people^ They all begin alike by commands. People must believe, and they can then cure the sick, raise the dead and be saved from all misery here and hereafter. They must have faith and they can remove mountains by a wish. They must love their neighbors as they do themselves, and they vv^ill do all duties of life correctly and justly, no matter how unjust their self-love may be.

The scientific religion commenced about six hundred years ago, by discoveries in some of the sciences. They were not considered a religion at the time, only by Christian priests ; but little by little discoveries were made. Other sciences, that gave knowledge to the people, were discovered, until the science of spiritualism was established. Then it became known that all these sciences of knowledge formed the basis of a new^ religion, that was to give joy to all the people of earth. Their only worship is their devotion to get knowledge and wisdom, and learn from them what is best for man to do to avoid pain and misery.

The ancient religions and Christian gods made matter, and then made the heavens and earth, animals and man out of it. Then they made spirits and devils and angels out of it, and all this was done by a word — by their god of words. Ministers and priests have tried to imitate their gods and make all the food and clothing and supply all the wants of mankind by words. The words were plenty but the people starved for the want of food, and died for the necessaries of life. Their faith, their belief, their prayers of priests and people did not stop the famine or stay the pestilence. This shows that words will not produce bread, nor cure diseases, and people must look to other means to obtain the needs of life on earth.

Man was not made to govern the laws of nature and spirit, but these laws were made to govern man. They are his God and they must be his guide. If he would have his wants supplied, man may violate the laws of health and bring on disease. He may violate the laws of peace and bring on war. He may violate the laws that produce good, strong, healthy children, and bring forth weak and sickly ones, who are deformed in body and mind. He may make unjust and unequal laws and a government to enforce them, causing misery, wrongs, conflicts, wounds and death. But the laws of nature and spirit continue just the same. He may make machinery that will chain the lightning, but he cannot destroy the law which governs lightning. It is compliance with nature's god that gives peace, plenty, health and happiness ; not faith, not belief, not prayer. The god of nature does not heed such things. But the spirits do, and by them many wonderful things are done, that preachers and priests proclaim as the works of their gods, and the ignorant and superstitious believe them, and are punished by pain and by want.

This makes the god of nature a moral ruler, guided by the laws of justice, to govern i^jankind. If persons obey the laws of health and peace they have them. If they say they do not know what these laws are, the god of nature is not to blame for that. He has given you intellect and time enough to e am them. But you have employed your time and talent in useless prayers, instead of learning the truth. You preferred ignorance to knowledge, and you must sufi'er until you prefer knowledge to ignorance. Guided by these principles, the scientists have put forth the best system of morals ever adopted by mankind, and made the best governments that have ever been established on earth. Their moral principles are the parliamentary laws and rules.

Protestanism is a mixed religion, partly Pagan and Christian, and partly scientific, jusc calculated to be the medium for people to take, when leaving the faith and sacrificial religions to" adopt the scientific. It proclaims the right of private judgment. This mixes a little scientific thought with its ancient superstition and ignorance. When the Christians had control, they used the hangman's rope and fiery faggot to prevent free discussion. For more than a hundred years the infidels a.nd scientists have had about as much to do in shaping the laws, morals and governments of Protestant countries as Christians have. During this time the Protestant countries have gained all their glory, and have dominated the world. Their moral principles have reached all nations, and changed for the better the thoughts and habits of the people. Wherever scientific Protestants go, there are the best and most enlightened people of •the earth.

How are we expected to worship so as to be satisfied with faith and belief ? Just as the Christians and other sacrificial religionists do : Count our beads. Bow to our malier. Kneel to our God. Eead his holy books. Depend on the priests to save our souls. Pray to God, to Christ, to the Holy Ghost, to the Virgin Mary the mother of God. Do penance and torture the body by priestly orders, to save the soul. Sacrifice the best of animals and man, to save the worst. Eepent and ask Godinthemost piteous supj^lications to forgive them their sins of commission and omission. Wrestle and agonize with their God, to give them the blessings they ask for. Do anything but get knowledge and wisdom, for these destroy such faith and belief.

How shall we worship to be satisfied with knowledge and wisdom ? Our devotions must be of the same kind that scientists apply when they study their special sciences — of thoughtful study and work. We must devote ourselves to obtaining knowledge and using it wisely. Be as devout and earnest, as persevering, peaceful, and determined to find the truth and do right as the best of scientists. Pray to our spirit friends and have them answer our prayers to the best of their ability, and bring us into harmony with the spirits of heaven and the deity that presides over the universe of matter and spirit, decks the heavens with his stars, keeps the sun in its station, the planets in their orbits, and gives the greatest joy to those people who get the most knowledge of his laws and live most wisely in harmony with them. This is the kind of devotion, work and worship, that will satisfy every honest, intelligent person, that the best religion in the world must be based on spiritual knowledge and wisdom.

What is the real importance and value of Inspiration as a religious guide ? No more important question can be asked in the religious world, because Christianity and all the ancient religions declare inspiration as the only reliable guide for people, and claim it to be better than reason, better than knowledge, better than wisdom, better than all these com-. bined. The scientific religionists declare just the opposite, that the intellect is the only safe guide for people. They wish to heap up knowledge upon knowledge, wisdom upon wisdom, reason upon reason, and make up their judgments from these, to decide what is right and just.

The question is, shall we make our intellect subservient to reason or to inspiration ? Shall we throw reason aside as the Christians did during the hunddreds of years they had control of the governments, or shall we throw inspiration aside, as is done to-day among the most enlightened people of earth ? Here is where the conflict has been raging for more than three hundred years, and the ground on which the battle is being fought to-day. Shall we throw aside intellect and take to inspiration, or throw aside inspiration to be guided by intelleci; ?

To determine this matter, let us inquire into the sources of inspiration. These are impressions, dreams, intuition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychology, psychometry, magnetism, communications from spirits and from visions of various kinds. All these, that are claimed to be inspired by God, are asserted to be infallible truth, and the only guide to make peace and good will among the people, and insure them a heavenly home among the blest. Now let us inquire into the sources of knowledge and wisdom. They are obtained by experience, experiments and observations, and finally formulating the facts into sciences. The most important of these is the science -of free speech, which the god of words never hinted at, never thought of, although he is made of words and speeches. Wherever this science is complied with, there is intelligence and peace among the people. All the other sciences are made upon its principles of industry, observations and determination to know the truth and abide by it ; to know what is right and do it. It has taken ages of hard work and close reasoning to obtain the present knowledge and wisdom, and make the religion of science as it now is. No pains have been spared to make it true and just to all people.

When ^e turn to the inspirations from the gods, we find them saying : "in six days God made the heavens and earth and ail that in them is. The earth was flat, sun, moon and stars went round it," and Christians killed astronomers, because they proved that all their astronomical statements from Genesis to revelations are falsehoods.

Why did the Christians wish to destroy the geologists? Simply because they proved that all the statements of their inspired writers, about the making of the crust of the earth and its animals, its vegetables and its man, were false.

Why did the Christians kill chemists ? Simply because, they proved that, all the inspired chemical statements of their bible were falsehoods. There were more than the four elements of matter — earth, air, fire and water.

Why have all religious people killed mediums for spirit control? Simply because they proved there was no hell, and that heaven was as natural a place for spirits as earth was for their bodies, and that the whole of the inspirations of their bible leads to falsehoods and brutality.

Why have all the most religious people such a deadly hatred of quiet, independent free-thinkers, and even kill them now in the most barbarous portions of catholic and protestant countries ? It is simply because they expose the falsehoods of their bible inspirations and the lies of their priests, and tell the truth.

Why have the Christians and Protestants made a church militant, or fighting church ? Simply because they WL«h to uphold falsehood, lies, brutality and injustice. There is no other way to uphold the barbarities that are required to maintain such religions, and the priests and most intelligent people learned this ages ago, when they founded their religions upon the falsehoods believed to be true by the ignorant and superstitious.

Now let us call together the most intelligent of all these scientists, free-thinkers, mediums, spiritualists and all others that the churches have rejected, and see if we cannot find among them the stone of truth 'd.-n.^ justice^ that will be exactly fitted to become the chief head of the corner of the new religious edifice. Persons who wish to establish the religion of truth and justice need no church militant, but a fair hearing, such as parliamentary law affords, and an intelligent people who seek to be just and true.

From these statements the reader will note the great necessity of a new religion that will be in harmony with the government and the knowledge of the people of this age, have all the humanitarian principles that possess the best of people, and in every way teach them the importance of being guided by wisdom in declaring their principles, and making associations, and working to benefit mankind.

Chapter I. THE SCIENCE OF EKEE SPEECH

This is parliamentary law and the moral basis of the scientific religion. These laws are established upon the moral principles of the equal rights of all people in Religion, Associations, Society and Governments. They secure to every individual, in legislative bodies the same rights ; and by principle they secure to every individual in the nation the same rights. They are the best system of laws ever made by man, or by the God believed in by man, to civilize and enlighten the people of any society or nation.

For hundreds of years men have been engaged in legislative bodies in learning what rules and laws they should be guided by, to enable each one of them to have the just rights, in the work that it is their duty, or wish to do. They have made experiment after experiment, and trial after trial, to determine the rules and laws to secure every member of a legislative body his just rights, in manner, action and speech. In this they have set an example for all people to follow in the common affairs of life, if they wish to end civil strife and do justly by all persons of all nations. They teach practical morality, not a theoretical or visionary one. Their demand is that people shall be civil, polite and just in their manners toward each other.

They repudiate the idea, that man should be a law unto himself, and do by others as they would have others do by them. The law of order;; can not be made in that way, nor equal rights to free speech. But when a question of right arises in legislatures and a person is called to order, the point of order is stated. Then the presiding officer makes a decision. If that is not satisfactory, an appeal is taken to the members of the house to determine what is right law on the subject. There is no question about their loving their neighbor as themselves, or wether they love anybody, or hate anybody. The only question is. what is the just law? and^majority decides the point of order, and after a great many decisions makes the law. Then the law becomes the guide ; not love, not feeling, not conscience, not selfish love, or unselfish love; but the law of agreement, and so binding is this law, that it governs the unruly tongues of the legislators, and if the same equal rights laws are made to guide all adult people, they will make similar laws, that will not only govern their tongues, but all their actions, and make the same order in general society, that we have now in legislative bodies.

The making of these laws, is one of the most wonderful works of man that is recorded in history. _ It was commenced in the last centuries of the Christian dark ages, by the great and wealthy men of England ; getting a charter from their king and forming a parliament to secure equal rights by law to the nobles of that country. This ruling class kept united in all the vicissitudes of the dark and middle ages of priestly brutality. Their head men were often killed by the order of kings or queens. The common people sometimes rebelled, and swept king and parliament out of existence for a time. But the great men held to their charter and their rights, and finally triumphed over kingcraft and priestcraft, ignorance and superstition and proved that the best laws ever made for man, w^here made by man. This occured less than two hundred years ago. Wherever Englishmen go they carry with them this basic principle of just law, equal rights, and wherever they plant a colony they plant the equal rights of man, in place of the equal rights of nobles ; and these principles soon ripen into the principle of the equal rights of all its citizens and the nations, made from such colonies declare that "the just powers of the government are derived from the consent of the governed", and the sentiments of equal rights become the principles of the people and governments ; and all are derived from the parliamentary laws that were established by the ruling classes of England under the most oppressive circumstances that ever surrounded a people.

No other nation ever planted such colonies and became the mother of such nations of enlightened people, and no other nation ever made such a just system of laws for its citizens to carn^ to their colonies, and to other nations and people. Look at the Spanish colonies, and nations made from them. The French colonies, the colonies made by the Germans, Russians and Italians, look the world over, ancient and modern and find if you can, any nation that has equaled the English, in making just governments and an enlightened people.

As they have excelled all other nations in giving just law and knowledge to their people, the question is, how did they do it? What made them do it? Because they had better principles back of their laws, than any other nation, and consequently better laws, and as the basis of their laws was just, all the people have to do, is to follow out the principles and the people will be filled with joy and the nations will be at peace.

Can reformers find iu all the world, among all the people better basic-principles to make peace on earth and good will among the people, than the parliamentary laws and principles, to guide them ? A few of these principles were adopted hundreds of years ago, and laws made consistent with them and the people that adopted most of them, are the most enlightened and have the best laws, and the people who refuse to adopt any of them are the most cruel, barbarous, ignorant and superstitious of people in this world. These are the practical results of the two systems and give an unmistakable lesson to guide all, what course to persue, a true religion, a just government and peace among the people of the earth.

Chapter II. ASSOCIATION

The great question before the American people at this time, is, how shall they associate, to be just to aU people ? The answer is, if there is a just gOTexnment in the world, adopt its laws and principles, if there is not, take the just laws and principles that exist in all governments and add to them all the just ones, that can be conceived by the persons forming the governments and accociations. Every family is a little association under a general government. ' Unite a number of families and you have a large association. Now, shall all these associations from the family to the state and nation, have the same laws and prineiples of government ? If they agree, there will be peace and harmony; if not, there will be a constant conflict, it may beVar.

1. They must agree to reason together upon the principles of scientific speech, in all their discussions and meetings. This will give all persons the same rights of speech in all the governments from the family to the state and nation. And so far there is now a general harmonious union.

2. The best and most intelligent of husbands and wives agree that they shall have equal rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness. This is simply justice, and the declared principles of this government. Yet there is no law of any state or nation that is in accord with this agreement. Here you have a disagreement between the best family laws tuat the best of men and women make, and the best laws and institutions that best of governments have been willing to make. Notwithstanding it is just, and in agreement with the declared rights of the people, the governments prefer to adopt the laws and bickerings of the worst of husbands and wives, to doing justice, and as they agreed to do when contending for hberty and right.

3. The wages working people have associated together, to have fair living wages for fair work. Shall they have it ? Yes, says every fair-minded man, yet there is not a law of any state or nation in the world that will force men to pay it, or even oblige them to make an investigation to determine what is fair pay for working people. Here is a perfectly just demand from every humane person and all wages working people, that laws be passed to investigate and determine what is fair living wages that should be paid to working people, for fair work, and the state and nation having- determined what such wages are, they should pass laws that contracts below such prices shall be null and void. This will bring harmony among all the people of these associations who love justice, and the state and national laws, and make, in this matter, laws that are in harmony with the just claims of these associations, and with the profession of the lawmakers.

4. Working people have associated together to ask to have the hours of labor so regulated that all necessary work shall be done, and not so much more, as to produce a surplus and cause the dismissal of the workers. Ten hours have been tried, and too much is produced, now the demand is that Eight hours shall be tried to determine whether so many hours will produce all needed supplies. This law is resisted with venom, by the great majority of employers and executive officers of the state and national governments. The law of the United States that Eight hours shall be a days work, was not allowed to working people, until after years of agitation ; the republican officers who have been in power for a number of years long refused to enforce these laws, and the democratic president who vetoed a bill while governor of New York, that reduced the hours of labor from sixteen hours per day to twelve for car drivers in New York City, will hardly be in favor of making the officers obey the law, or trying the experiment, until working people, and their friends, unite and demand it at the Ballot Box. Here was an outrageous violation of laws, and public opinions, by the officers of the governments, and the animus of the two great parties, that are contending for supremacy in the government, is, that they hate the working people and all laws that favor them, and will do all thev can to have them paid starvation wages, or refuse to pay them anything, until the workers are made insane or partly so, by hard work, poor fare, and insults and inhuman treatment. Then when these poor dementedworking people rise in mobs and riots, these officers without looking at the cause, can order the soldiers to shoot them down on the spot, and men, women and children are killed and these officers are paid great wages for doing it, and more money is expended in doing this, than would be required, to settle the whole affair quietly, peacefully and justly. But the tax payers have to foot the bills, and the officers are delighted with their large pay and bloody work against insane mobocrats.

When Gov. Kusk of Wisconsin was notified thac it was necessary for him to send a military force to put down a mob of rail road working men that were violating the rights of the citizens, he sent to learn the cause of the riots and found it to be, the men had not been paid their dues, and at once, he ordered them to be supplied with provisions that they were made partly insane by not receiving them, and they became quiet, and being assured that justice should be done to them there was no occassion for soldiers to shoot them, ana the people were not taxed to pay a military force, to suppress riotous people.

Now let us turn to the works of the governors of Pennsylvania and Ohio wiio have had frequent occasion to put down the riotous proceedings of working people, when they have been made almost, or quite insane, by want of pay, to enable them to get a comfortable living, sometimes because employers would not pay them what they had agreed to, at other times, from starvation wages. But whatever the cause, the governors were bound to punish them, order soldiers to shoot them if necessary, to make them submit to be starved peacefully, or worked and starred to death, amidst plenty and to spare. The question to tax payers and all peace, loving citizens is : Will you join the working men's party as much as Gov. Kusk has, and have peace, or join those who are opposed to working people having their just dues, and have taxations, starvation and mobs as the governors of Pennsylvania and Ohio have. If you refuse to deal justly with the working people now, you will be taxed heavily for your injustice and your children and children's children will raise monuments in honor of the working people you starved and shot. The same as John Brown is now honored because he gave his life to free the slaves.

5. Marriages and divorces shall be civil contracts and their settlements, made upon the scientific principles that produce the best children and make the most harmonious, happy and healthy people.

The God of nature made the laws of attraction and repulsion in the marriage relation, and it is the dnty of man to make laws that are in harmony with them. If they are not, there will be constant conflict, as is now seen in most of the families that the priests say God has joined together, and let no man put asunder. If God has done that, he has united people to produce miserable children, and live in inharmonious, unhappy and unhealthy conditions. There is no proof that any such God exists, except such as priests have made and superstitious and deluded people worship. We ask the governments of the state and nation to pass laws, that are in harmony with the God of nature, that makes all the natural children, and agrees with the natural man and woman. When a Mrs. Clark uttered the sentiment in the Wisconsin State Agricultural Association at the meeting held at Madison in the spring of 1885 : **That the best stock raised on the farm were the children", she told a great truth and now what is wanted, is for people to have the right, by law, to so unite that they can raise the very best of this best stock, and this must be, before the governments are in harmony with the God of nature, and with the most thoughtful people in the world.