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24 is not in this place or in that, it is in all places where mutual love reigns, based on the acknowledgement of a God. All those who shun evil as sin, belong to the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ, whatever may be the religion in which they have been brought up; for to shun evils as sins, is to acknowledge a God, and to live in mutual love; and were the Lord to reject them, because of their never having heard of him, and therefore not acknowledging him, he would no longer be Love itself, and Justice itself.

To all well-disposed persons then, we would say, "Do you desire to save society? return to true religious ideas, and cease to persuade yourselves that the old creeds can do more than they have done; it is these creeds which have led society to the very brink of the abyss, and they will be powerless to prevent its fall. Besides, accustomed as you are to use your reason in other things, can you force yourself to believe what your reason rejects, and to make in religious matters a complete abnegation of your intelligence? Because man can never comprehend the infinity of God!—for to perfectly comprehend the Deity in His infinity, it is necessary to be God ones-self; it should not be inferred that Religion necessitates the belief of what is mathematically impossible; for God is the Supreme Geometrician, and all the laws of divine order are regulated on strictly mathematical principles. To believe, is not to admit without comprehending; it is to see with the eyes of intelligence those things which are not within the range of the senses. Abandon, then, those spiritual falsities, which are neither conformable to your nature or your education, adopt spiritual truths, propagate them, and you will then see antagonism disappear by degrees, and give place to mutual love; and society, reconstituted on a solid basis, will be raised above the reach of those violent revolutions which you with reason dread."