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THE SEMITIC PHILOSOPHY, called Semitic from the Author of its great Revival, — being Man's first thought as an isolated person, before the invention of Language, and being conducted by means of the Sensuous Ideas, — was the Normal, Instinctive, Original Philosophy, ______ 1-35

1. Thought without Language in the Isolated Individual.

Philosophy, many systems, begins in childhood with Instinctive Thought, _ 1

2. Instinctive Thought of the unlearned may be Philosophy.

The Higher Law, _______ 4

3. Revolutions of the Past and of the Future, by Instinctive

4. The means employed by Instinctive Thought are the Sensu-

5. There is but one Philosophy, — the Doctrine of the King-

dom of God, — the Semitic Philosophy, 9

6. Thought before Language in the Isolated Individual, _ 12

7. Conservative Analysis : of Consciousness, _ _ _ .12

8. Conservative Analysis : of the action of Man's spirit, _ _ 16

9. Conservative Analysis : of Man's body, . _ _ - 17

10. The Sensuous Ideas, _______ 20

11. The Imaginative Ideas, _______ 20

12. Enumeration of the Modifications of Speculative and Prac-

tical Action, ________ 22

14. Use of the representative Sensuous Ideas, without Laniii

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15. We know things as they are, _ 30

16. A universal concrete notion, ______ 32

17. It alternates in its analysis with its artificial synthesis, and

furnishes the whole domain of Philosophy, _ . .33

Chapter II

MAN'S ORIGINAL PHILOSOPHY, or First Thought, when in conscious relation to other spirits, first, without Language, in Natural Society, then with Language, in Artificial Society, was at first in both cases Normal ; until Ancient Artificial Society, by the lapse of Man's Thought through the abuse of Language into Idolatry and by the reduction of his practical action through Idolatry into Crime, became, as the union of idolatry and crime, abnormal, and was called ancient heathenism, _ 35-64

18. Man, still without Language, in conscious relations to other

spirits, sees moving, material, outward objects, _ . 35

19. Organic World, Inorganic World, _ _ _ _ .36

20. One Superior Spirit, _ _ _ _ . _ .37

21. Practical action, nourishment of the body, _ _ .38

22. Association with fellow-men for this purpose, _ _ .40

23. Man cooks his food, and thereby observes Artificial as well

as Natural Qualities of Matter, _ _ _ _ _ 41

24. Before treating of the uses of Language in Society, some-

thing of the nature of Language is here anticipated, to explain the Sensuous Ideas. Language externalizes the Sensuous Ideas, ________ 42

25. Space, Time, Gravitation, ______ 43

26. Mysteries created by Science, _ _ _ _ ■ _ .44

27. Faith may be acquired without Language, _ _ .45

28. Primitive Natural Society without Language, Artificial

Society with Language, ______ 46

29. Natural Society, the Family, associated by the original

Social Contract between God and Man, _ _ _ 46

30. Moral obligation from Man's relations to plant life and

animal life, ._ 47

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31. In Human Society the moral obligations of Man to Man

arise under the original and continuing Social Contract, _ 49

32. The five elementary Social Activities, Society an Integral

Whole. Natural Society Undenominational, based on the First Principle, cannot be historically traced in its development by Language into Artificial Society. Nor can the origin of Language be traced in history, _ .50

33. Language, a system of externalized Sensuous Ideas, was

probably suggested by Prayer. Superiority of the Sensuous Ideas, ________ 53

34. Moral Evil arose from Idolatry, and Idolatry, from the

abuse of Language, _______ 55

35. The absolute sway of Idolatry over Ancient Society, result-

ing in Despotism, Sacerdotalism, Offensive War, and Slavery, 57

Chapter III

THE DOCTRINE AND THE PRACTICE OF THE KINGdom of god, being the revival by jesus of Normal Artificial Society from Ancient Heathenism BY MEANS OF THE REVIVAL OF THE SPECULATIVE

Side, and the consequent Revival of the Practical Side of the Original or Semitic Philosophy, _ 65-98

36. Normal Artificial Society revived in Modern Civilization,

or Christianity, from Ancient Heathenism, which was universal, at the birth of Jesus, as Orientalism, or Despotism with Idolatry, Polytheistic and Monotheistic, — the latter among the Jews, ______ 65

37. It was necessary that the Reformer of Polytheistic Idolatry

should be a Jew, ________ 68

38. Jesus of Nazareth, as a Jew, began at his home among

Jews his reform movement, ______ 70

39. He summed his doctrine in the formula " Kingdom of God,"

expounded it by oral speech, addressed to the Common People and his Disciples, and left nothing in writing, thus showing his distrust of Written Language, . _ 70

40. Exposition of the formula " Kingdom of God," and its two

terms, "Kingdom" and "God," _ _ _ _ _ 71

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41. Summary of the meaning of this formula. On its specula-

tive side, it is the Semitic Philosophy. On its practical side, it is the Organization, or practical Constitution of Normal Artificial Society, ______ 76

42. The primary speculative and practical activities of Man

are derived from the First Principle. Corresponding to them are the five universal associations, or Integral Organs of Society, _______ 77

43. The Undenominational Association of Jesus with his Dis-

ciples was the first typical Christian Community, _ _ 79

44. Representation was almost the only development of early

Christianity, ________ 82

45. The adoption of Sacerdotalism and Despotism by the Chris-

tian Community, about the beginning of the third century, 83

46. The compromise with Constantine, resulting in the Nicene

creed of impure Monotheism, _ _ _ _ .84

47. The Christian Sacerdotal Machine, and the Christian Mili-

tary Machine, or Government, _ _ _ _ _ 86

48. The inward development of Christianity, its popular tradi-

49. The Sacerdotal Order subordinated the popular tradition to

their Oriental dogmas, _______ 89

50. After the lapse of sixteen hundred years, it is difficult to

assign the motives of those engaged in the movement or Eevolution of the Sacerdotal Order. The Inquisition, _ 89

51. The State's complicity with the Inquisition of the Church, 91

52. Oriental maxims of Conquest and of Oppression adopted by

the Military Governments of Europe, _ _ _ .92

53. The Christian Community inaugurated by Jesus relapsed

into modern forms of Ancient Heathenism, _ _ _ 92

54. It also developed into forms of Modern Civilization in the

Eepublic of Letters and Art, and the Republic of Industry, __.__-.-- 92

55. Conflict between the Sacerdotal Order and the State for

56. There is for Man a controlling and attracting Unity, and a

consequent Simplicity in his View of the Universe, — one source of Normal Action, one cause of Moral Evil, one Normal Order of Society, the description of which must be the Ideal Social Constitution, _ _ _ _ .95

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CHAPTER IV. THE IDEAL WRITTEN SOCIAL CONSTITUTION,— being

A DEVELOPMENT OF THE REVIVED, PREDOMINANTLY SPECU- LATIVE Social Side of the Semitic Philosophy, 99-149

57. The Artificial Constitution of the "Kingdom of God," as

Normal Society, or Modern Civilization, _ _ .99

58. Article I. — The common features of all the Integral Organs

59. Article II. — The Republic, or Integral Organ, of Letters

60. Article III.— The Republic, or Integral Organ, of the

61. Article IV. — The Republic, or Integral Organ, of Industry, 115

62. Article V. — The Republic, or Integral Organ, of Public

63. Article VI. — The Republic, or Integral Organ, of Govern-

ment, with its Four Partial Organs ; namely, its Political Parties, its Regular Legislature, its Body of Executive Officers, and its Legal Profession, _ _ _ _ 128

64. The Government's Political Parties are Honorable Associ-

ations of the People, _ _ 131

65. The Government's Regular, or Denominational Legislature, 134

66. The Government's Body of Executive Officers, _ _ 135

67. The Government's Legal Profession, with its Judicial and

its Practicing Branches, ______ 139

68. The Government's extraordinary, general or local, Unde-

nominational, Representative Convention, for exercising the People's reserved Powers, whether Legislative, Executive, or Judicial, as required by the occasion, _ _ 146

Chapter V

THE GENERAL SOCIAL REFORMATION, as the revived, predominantly practical, Social Side of the Semitic Philosophy, and called Practical Christianity, or Developed Modern Civilization, — attainable by all Monotheistic Races and Nations, _ _ _ 150-210

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69. Semitic Philosophy, an exposition of the Kingdom of God,

as a reality, a fact, . _ _ _ _ _ _ 150

70. The relation of man's spirit to his body, is used to explain

the relation of God to the whole Inorganic world, _ _ 151

71. The Kingdom of God abstractly and concretely regarded, _ 152

72. The action of spirit, being Integral, frames man's body as a

conductor of spiritual action, and as an instrument, _ 154

73. Normal association of all men with God, Social Contract,

Social Organization, _______ 155

74. General View of the errors and irregularities in each of the

Integral Organs that hinder its Normal action, _ _ 156

75. A General Reformation of Society, with Reform of the

Reformers, must be effected by a competent knowledge of the First Principle, _______ 159

76. The shortcoming of the Republic of Letters and Art in

apprehending and teaching the First Principle, is its entertainment of Oriental false so-called science, _ .163

77. The most prominent practical error of the Republic of the

Church, is its failure to adopt a Normal Organization, and its consequent control by an Abnormal Ecclesiastical Ring, _____ 168

78. The greatest practical error of the Republic of Industry is

its failure to secure, as a whole, a separate and independent Industrial Organization ; a failure resulting in general Industrial Anarchy and War, _ _ _ _ _ 175

79. The most serious practical error of the Republic of Charity

is likewise its failure to secure a separate and independent Charitable Organization ; a failure that accounts for the want of concentration and of energy in its charitable efforts, _________ 181

80. The practical error of faulty Organization prevails not only

in the Republic of Government as a whole ; but also in each of its Partial Organs, and in its extraordinary Undenominational (governmental Conventions, _ _ .187

81. In the Political Parties the want of efficient Normal Organ-

ization prevails, along with Abnormal, non-representative Rings, _________ 188

82. The Governmental Legislature, virtually composed of Com-

mittees elected by the Political Parties, fails to carry out the Principle of Home Rule in many countries, _ _ 197

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83. The Body of Executive Officers in the Civil Service, the

Military Service, and the Naval Service, should have their appointments dependent on the same kind of examination, respectively, with the same tenure of office, and privilege of promotion, ______ 201

84. The Legal Profession fails to attain its proper degree of

influence and of usefulness, owing to its defective Organization, which does not include, as it should, all its members of all its classes, combined by Representation in National, International, and, in time, Interrace, Associations or Guilds, _._____. 202

85. The Government's Undenominational Organization, by rep-

resentative Conventions, called to exercise the Reserved Sovereign Powers of the People, is defective, owing to the absence in it of a systematic localization ; so that it may be called into action in a regular and orderly way, according to the Principle of Home Rule, in large or small Governmental districts, according to the sphere in which its action is properly required, _ 207