To restore a pure worship is to help on a better civilisation among the Barbarians. Nor would a respect for the morality ascribed to Christ do other than help in the same way. The misfortune is, that that morality has been overlaid with Jewish and Priestly additions and inventions. There are some of the English _literati_ who dare to teach a purer worship, discarding the _superstition_ in its grosser pretensions; but they are not listened to. It is difficult to understand what is accepted as _true_ by the differing _Sects_--but their differences may be disregarded--and I will refer to what all the Sects of the _Great Superstition_ subscribe to, aside from the matter of _Pope_. _One, only God_: in three parts--each part a very God! 1. _The Judge and destroyer_ of mankind; for all are damned to Hell! This is the Jewish Jah. 2. _The Son_, begotten of Jah upon an immaculate virgin. Sent to mediate with Jah and appease His fierce anger, so that some may escape Hell--that is, those few who have "_believed in_" _and worshipped the Son_, the Father, and other things. For as to what is to be believed, form the points of endless contention, as I have hinted. 3. _The Holy Ghost_, or Comforter, whose function I have never comprehended. It appears to be a divine _Effluence_, entering into the devotee, to warm, exalt, and enlighten him; especially to comfort him and to support him in his dire conflicts with "_the flesh, hell, and the devil_" (as the Superstition reads). It is an "awful mystery" in the _rites_, and has crazed many a worshipper; for those who fancy themselves to be in the possession of this _Effluence_ feel like gods, and conduct themselves as scarcely accountable to mortal control; though others feel an absorption, as they say, into the divine nature--a notion like that of some of the fanatics of the Hindoos and of the East.