172 SYMBOLISM OF THE APOCALYPSE. 50. Observe here the word, egeneto, HAS BECOME; not that it was so while this Mystery was the best that was known in the world, and a proper adaptation to the infancy of the race; but from the time when the Light of the Pure Reason shines in the world; "when the earth is lightened by his glory;" there is no salvation out of the pale of the Regenerate and NEW Catholic Church; that is to say, in the continued rejection of the Truth as revealed to the Intellect through the medium of Science. As to the old Babel or Babylon of dogma, bigotry, dubious faith, conflicting creeds, and persecuting opinions, it has from that time become "the habitation of devils and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird;" "a mass of rottenness and corruption to be deserted with the utmost speed;" The "Other Voice from Heaven" in respect to her is: "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." (1). The suddenness of the collapse of the old system of doctrines, and of the methods of their inculcation is also strongly put. There fore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her." (2). So again: "For in one hour so great riches has come to naught." (3). 51. The whole Church, in common with Swedenborg, gives a symbolic interpretation to the Apocalypse; for it will of course admit of no other. (He, indeed, affirms as much of the whole Scripture Narrative). Swedenborg in turn, in common with nearly all Protestant commentators, makes the Babylon of the Apocalyptic Vision to signify the Old Catholic or Roman Catholic Church. I apply the same interpretation, only more radically, to the whole FeminoidaInfantoidal Dispensation of the Past, the (1) Revelation, xviii. 4. (2) Ib., 8. logical Exposition of the Apocalypɛe. [CH. III. Proto-Societismus (c. 24, t. 136) founded on Tradition, Inspiration, vague guesses and Mystery of all sorts, in the place of the KNOWLEDGE OF ABSTRACT TRUTH, and THE LOVE OF IT as a basis from which to proceed to its determinate applica tions, in the construction and adminis tration of the Individual Life, and of all Social Affairs. By Babel or Babylon is therefore here meant the Primitive Incoherence or Confusion of all Human Affairs, as a State or Condition of Things prior to the Scientific discovery of the Laws of Order and Harmony in the world. By such discovery the Old and Incoherent Order is in fact instantly (in a day or in an hour) blasted, or affected by the cause of its rapid prospective dissolution, however it may for a time linger and retain an apparent and nominal existence. The old Co-Matrix of Social Gestation, like any other Placenta, is destined to be cast aside and to go into decay from the instant of the true Birth of Humanity through the Unification of Intellectual Perceptions; for it is Science which addresses itself to the Universal Faculty in Man, and THE ACHIEVED UNITY OF THE SCIENCES will complete the argument as addressed to that faculty. Faith, Inspiration, Subjective Personal Illumination, and all other appeals, address themselves to the Particular Facul ty in Man, and could only achieve, therefore, Sectarian and Fragmentary resultsas Methods of Knowing-however much they may continue to serve, in various ways, for the culture of the Individual Soul. In another sense, however, all the leading Doctrines of all the Religions or Sects of the Past or now extant, will be rescued, reburnished, and reconciled or adjusted in the Scientized character, the Faith founded in Knowledge, of the Universal Church of the Future. 52. It is by no means meant that all Knowledge is instantly opened up to the (3) Ib., 17. See also, the forthcoming Universo CH. III.] LOGICISMAL AND ARBITRISMAL REGIME. 173 related philosophies which have been evolved from Modern Spiritism. 54. Thought is then pre-eminently The Man, as held by Socrates, and not mere Sensation, as held by the Sophists. The Straight Lines and Levels and Perpendiculars of the Mythical Cubic city seen in the Apocalyptic Vision descending out of Heaven, symbolize those Fundamental and Regulative Lines and Exact adjustments of Thought, which are at the same time the Laws of Universal Being, and the Principles of the Universal Science-The Axes or Axio mata of Being. As the Laws and Measure of the city representing Human Society, so they are the Laws and Measure of Man, and especially of Man as a Spirit or Rational Being superior to sense-in other words, an Angel. Man is therefore, still, only in a higher sense than that of the Sophists, the Measure, while he is also the Measurer, of the Universe. This was testified to by John, the Revelator, in these words: "And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the Angel." (1). world through the discovery of Universology; but that the central knowledge is had, from which it becomes possible to proceed outwardly, upon any radius, in an orderly manner, to the investigation of any given point (t. 183); so that the acquisition of any particular knowledge within the legitimate scope of the intellectual faculty is merely a matter of time, and of the requisite application (t. 183); and that, hence, whosoever chooses, hereafter, to remain in the old Babel or confusion of ideas, will be plagued with the plagues which are denouneed upon her. The clear demonstrations of those who see the light will be gall and wormwood to all such, and a just retribution for the hindrances and wrongs which the Mystical teachings of the Past have heretofore thrown in the way of the Reason. Savonarola, Galileo, Bruno, and Servetus will be amply avenged. 'Reward her even as she rewarded you; and double unto her double according to her works; in the cup that she hath filled, fill to her double." (1). Only that the tortures inflicted by the Light of Intellectual Truth will vex the Mind and Spirit, and not the bodies of men The New Order will be 55. The kind of Truth which is thus the final and complete triumph of the identical with Thought, and with the LOGICISMAL Over the Arbitrismal Régime. Measure of the Universe, and with Mind, 53. The writings of Emanuel Sweden- and with Man as the Measure or Meaborg are a Semi-intellectual, Semi-mys- surer (c. 1, 2, t. 96) is, of course, as will tical, and partial, illumination of the now be understood, Self-Evident, NecesSpirit and meaning of the Older Scrip- sary and Universal Truth. In other tures and Philosophies. They are, as it words, it is Axiomatic, when rightly were, halfway-ground between the ear- brought before the attention of any comlier Mysticism and Universology. The petent mind, or of all such minds. I am writings of Tulk and James are then not unaware that some philosophers another halfway-stage between Sweden- have denied that there is any truth borg and the Scientific comprehension which is absolutely axiomatic. Edgar of Spiritual Laws. All of these specula- A. Poe, in a Philosophical Treatise entions will likewise undergo modification titled Eureka, has thus denied the exist and a new exposition from the Light of ence of Axiomatic Truth in the absolute a Purely Intellectual Revelation. The sense, and J. Stuart Mill, in his recent same will happen for the great mass of "Criticism on Sir Wm. Hamilton," does (1) Revelation, xxi. 17. See farther, my forthcoming Exposition of the Apocalypse. 174 AXES, AXIOMS, AXIOMATA. nearly the same. its parallel in the denial that there is, in the Absolute, any such direction as Up or Down (a. 11, c. 32, t. 136). To discuss it here would lead me too far away from the present purpose; especially as, however, in the Absolute the issue might result, the distinction relatively, and for all practical purposes, between Universal Truth and Particular Truth, so ably elaborated by Professor Ferrier, would remain intact, and no less radically important. The Absolute of Philosophy being, in strictness, a region where all distinctions are wiped out of existence, we must necessarily return to the Relative whenever we would discriminate anything whatsoever; and hence for the terms Absolute and Relative as applied to different classes of Truth after the manner of Prof. Ferrier, the terms Absolutoid and Relatoid might better be substituted. This extremism finds [CH. III. 56. The doctrine of Divine Spiritual Influx and of the consequent regeneration of the human heart, and the other cognate doctrines of Christ, reinforced and modified by the Greek learning and philosophic tendencies of Paul, and by the Platonizing Transcendental Philosophy of John, and still later of the NeoPlatonists, have formed the burden of Christian Theology and of Christianism, as an influence and drift of development in the world. We need not here pursue further the growth of Philosophy. All the modern systems are radicated in some one of the ancient Greek Philosophies which we have passed rapidly in review. At another point the divergence from Plato towards Philosophy, and from Aristotle towards Science, as brought out under subsequent culture, will receive some additional notice; and other features of the subject will from time to time occur in the Commentary and Annotation. 245. CHAPTER IV. Text. Analogy between Number, Being, and Form, p. 176 Arithmetic, Geometry, Analysis, 177. NUMEROLOGY; MORPHOLOGY, 178. Exposition of CRUCIAL SCHEMA OF THE UNIVERSE, 182. Clefs 1, 2, 3; ABSTRACT-CONCRETE, ABSTRACT and CONCRETE, Sciences of Spencer, 188. POINT, Number; LINE, Form, 190. SUBSTANCE, LIMITATION, 190. Naturo-Metaphysic, Sciento-Philosophy, Arto-Philosophy, 192. SOMETHING, NOTHING; Wholeness, Partness (Half-ism), 193. THE RELATIVE and THE ABSOLUTE, 194. CLEFS: Notation, 195, 213, 215, 217, 242, 246, 261, 262, 267, 268, 269, 285, 298, 299, 309, 312, 313, 335, 337, 339. Astronomic Illustration; A Temple or an Edifice, 200. Distribution of Exactology, 206. CAREERS, 208. STORIES (Fr. Etages), 203. Distribution of Echosophy, 214. Distribution of the Pneumatismus, 217. Of the Anthropismus, 218. Of the Fractionismus, 221, 226, 246 SUBJECTIVISMUS and OBJECTIVISMUS, 223. ENTITY and RELATION, 225. STRUCTUROLOGY and SYSTEMATOLOGY, 225. Subjectivismus of the Echosophismus, 227. Co-EXISTENCES and Co-SEQUENCES, 228. BI-LATERAL SYMMETRY, Sexual Matehood, The Sociological Question, 229. DIALECTIC, 235. INDETERMINISMUS, 236. Vander Weyde's Distribution of the Sciences, 233. GENERALOGY and SPECIALOGY, 240. DISTRIBUTION OF NATUROMETAPHYSIC, 241. Speculology, 243, 249. Ontology, 244. Echosophy and Philosophy distributed, Theology-ARBITRISMOLOGY and LOGICISMOLOGY, 246: Analogues of, governmentally, 248. Appetism, Charm, 248. Unitarianism, 249. COSMOLOGICAL CONCEPTION PSYCHOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE; ONTOLOGICAL FAITH, 259. Instinctual, Dialectical, Elaborate, Cosmological Conception, 255. Realism; Constructive Idealism; Pure Idealism, 255. TELLUROLOGY METEOROLOGY: URANOLOGY, 256. Classiology, Regnology, Stabiliology, 257. MINERALOGY, VEGETALOGY, ANIMALOGY, 258. Self-Consciousness-Ferrier, 259. The Absolute Conscious Ego, God-James, 260. The Cosmical Conception-Masson, 261. Nihilism, Pantheism, 261. Hegel, on Limit, 263, 265, 266. The Swing of Mind, 264. THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS, 268. Inaccuracy of these terms, 270; Rectification-THET, ANTITHET, etc., 271. ANTITHETICAL REFLEXION and BALANCED VIBRATION, 272. CO-SEQUENCIATION and Co-EXISTENCES, 273. Different Dialectics, 274, 275, 278. Abstract-Concretology, Analogues of, 277. Cosmical Conceptions Distributed, 279. Theory of Perception, 280. Punctismus and Liniismus, Points and Lines, Sensations, Thoughts, 281, 282. Stories, (Etages) of the Mind, 283. Transcendentalism-Heaven; Experientialism-Earth and Hell, 28-1, 285, 308. Purgatory, 286. No Absolute Separation of Heaven and Hell, 286, 287, 288. Birth of Spirits into Spirit-World; of Ideas into Mind, 289, 292. GRAND RECONCILIATION OF ALL DocTRINES, 283. Real Presentationism-Reid, Hamilton, 290. Trance and Mediumship, "The Final Judgment"-Swedenborg, Andrew Jackson Davis, THE GREAT TRANSITION, 201, 292, 297, 299. All Ideas both Matteroid and Spiritoid, 292. The Three Heavens-Swedenborg, 293;-all within the Naturismus, 294, 238. THE GRAND REVERSAL, now, 295; The Self-Conscious Ego in the Mind. The Lord in Heaven, 295, 296. "The Resurrection of the Dead"-Modern Spiritism, 296. Impending Unition of the Spirit- World and this World, 297. The Three Stages, 298, 305. Dr. Cumming, Shimeall-Prophecy, 300. Indicia of the GREAT CRISIS, 300-305. Analogy of Physiological Conception, 306. Normal Progress towards Life, not towards Death; from Old Heaven and Earth to New, 307. Change of Face from East to West: from Belief to Knowledge, 309. The New Catholic Creed, 310. The Millennium to be inaugurated through Science, 310. Varieties of Ontological Faith, 311. THE ABSOLUTE, THE INFINITE, THE ECSTATIC, 312, 316. Natural Philosophy-Comte, 313. Two A Priori's; Two A Posteriori's, 314. "The Subjective Synthesis "-Comte, 315. Objective Method: Subjective Method, 315. Head = Man, Trunk = World, (Woman), 816. Three Philosophies of Comte, 318. Seven Sciences of do., 319, 321. Body and Limbs, 320. Astronomy = Whole Body; 321. Neck, Nexus, Equation, 323. Decussation, 324. Ratio, 324. Analogies of the Skeleton, with Comte, 325 with Kant, 328. The two feet, 329. Principles UNIVERSALOID, GENERALOID; SPECIALOID, 331. Pelvis and Skull: Teeth and Nails, 332. Least Atom, 383. Bi-lateral Equation; Unoids, Duoids, 333, 343. No. 32-Fourier: Ribs, 334. Trigrade Series of Pivotal Positions, Incipient, Medial, Final, 334. Absolutology, 335. The Frothinghams, 336. Espousals, Ecstaticism, 337. Pantheism, Mysticism, Anthropomorphism, 338. Composition of Number Two, Comparology, SCIENTO-PHILOSOPHY (Proper), 340-342, 344, 347. ABSOLUTE ANALYSIS, illustrated in Phonetics, 345, 346. Unification of Human Speech: "Absurd" Metaphysical Equations, 347, 348. Evolution of Numbers THE INFALLIBLE GUIDE. 349. CLASSIFICATION, 350; MONOSPHEROLOGY; COMPAROLOGY, 351 Notation provisional, 351. 176 NUMBER AND THE UNIVERSE. [CH. VI. Tables 13-35; pp. 178, 188, 204, 226, 241, 245, 249, 250, 255, 256, 258, 268, 274, 275, 276, 278, 273, 293, 311, 835, 336, 338, 341. List of Diagrams. No. 5, CruCIAL SCHEMA, 182. No. 6, Abstract of same, 184. No. 7, 271. No. 8, 324. Commentary. The Elementismus of the Numerismus, p. 177. Distribution of the MathematicsDavies, Comte, Spencer, (Table 1, Dia. 1), 178-183. Concretismi, 189. Form, Limitation, Substance, Reality, 192. Spencer's Distribution of the Sciences, (Table 1), 197. Pre-Clefs, 204. Systematology, 225. Co-EXISTENCES and CO-SEQUENCES-Clancy (Buckle on Mill); LOGIC, ANALOGIC, PANTOLOGIC, 228-234. INDUCTION and DEDUCTION, (Analysis and Synthesis), 243-246. Vis, Viscus, Viscera, 246. Godism-Unity, Trinity, 249. Coleridge-Grammar, Theology, 271; Addition and Subtraction the Whole of Mathematics, 274. THE GRAND RECONCILIATION of Ideas, 290. No Apology for accepting Spiritualistic Facts, 291. Swedenborg and Harris, 294. Victor Hugo, Hequembourg, Kalunkee Incarnation, Prophecy, Millennium, The Grand New Nation, 299-304. The Judg ment by the Saints, 301. "The Grand Crisis;" Hewitt; REHABILITATION OF PERSISTENT REMAINDERS, 308. Decrease of Prayer, Increase of Labor, 310. Death a blunder; Immortality normal; Male and Female Brain, 317. Wronski-Messianism, Pansclavism; Russia, America, 320. Hewitt's Architecture, 321. New Jerusalem, 323. Hair and Beard; Men and Women, 324-331. Musical Octave, 339. Education-Boyle, 346. Wronski's Formula, 349. Annotation. The Absolute-Ferrier, 195, 200; Mill, 200; Hamilton, Cousin, 207, 208, 213, 215: Comte, Lewes, Metaphysics; Counter-Statements, 197. "Senseless Abstractions "-Mill, 202, 205, 210, 217. Contradiction The Type of Being, 203, 206. The Muscular Thinkers, 211. The Unconditioned-Hamilton, 214. The Abstract never Actually true, 219. Spencer, 220. Masson-Recent British Philosophy, Extract, 250-257; 261-265. Swedenborg, Dante, "World of Spirits," "Purgatory," 281 228. In the present Chapter we are to establish the Analogical Relationship between NUMBER, as the General Domain of the Abstract Mathematics, and THE UNIVERSE AT LARGE, in respect to those Primary Metaphysical Discriminations which are-within this less definite Domain-equally fundamental, but-apparently-less exact than the corresponding Elementary Distributions of Number itself. Such are those conceptions which the philosophers have denominated THE ABSOLUTE and THE RELATIVE:-Reality, Limitation, Existence, and Movement; THE ABSTRACT and THE CONCRETE, and numerous others of a similarly ideal and intangible character. Into this latter Order of Discriminations we may now hope, for the first time, to be able to introduce Scientific Exactitude and Precision, by virtue of their discovered definite Analogy with the Primitive Discriminations of Number. Subsequently, the demonstration will be confirmed and completed, through the Analogy, to be shown in the Fifth and Sixth Chapters, between the Discriminations in both of the above-mentioned Domains or Departments of Being-Number and the Elementismus of the Real Universe-with Correspondential Discriminations in an intermediate Department, still more obviously definite |