Theo-Scientium; Or, Introductory Extracts to the Seven Ages of Creation, (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ARTICLE III. The Problem of Creation In previous articles we exposed the doctrine of a solar Heaven and a solar Hell. We shall now, as an introductory phase to Theory X, of the body of the work, undertake to explain the origin and source of Material Creation itself. Let us commence hy showing that angels fell from Heaven in the past, and then that these sinful angels were cast into the great Hell and were destroyed, annihilated! Truly this is the problem of destruction, but the problem of creation originated in and grew out of the problem of destruction. In proof of this fearful speculation, Eevelation again affords many striking and unmistakable passages, especially the following: -And there was a great battle in Heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon: and the dragon fought and his angels, and they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in Heaven. And that great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world: and he was cast forth unto the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.- (Rev. xii:8-9.) Like in all matters of inquiry into the final cause of things, the first and final cause, the Divine Word alone affords us any insight. Here we have an instance of a battle in Heaven. The battle was fought by whom? By goodangels on one side and bad angels on the other side. And this was a great battle. Yes, a most mighty battle, such as mortals hath never seen; great as Heaven is above the earth, when the archangel banished the serpent of the sun I Exceedingly great and fierce! When the bad angels knew they were about to be cast out of Heaven forever, and what was still worse, they were to be afterwards cast into Hell's fire to be destroyed and punished, was not this the strongest p...