Prayers can avail you nothing, nor blessings. Every man, to be a man, must act the man! Training, education, culture, makes him one. Free yourself from priestly influence and church dominion, if you would be free. Think and reason. Throw off the shackles of ecclesiastical slavery. Let your own brain work out your own salvation. Never mind the Jehova, the God of barbarism, the Christ of delusion, or the Holy Ghost of the imagination. Shake off the dust of superstition and ignorance if you would be free. It is the noblest work of man to make himself free--to make himself equal, not muscular--free from prejudice, free from superstitions, free from bigotry, free from ignorance, free from vice, free from passions, free from wrong-doing either to yourself or to your fellow-man. Equal you can be in brain power, brain culture, in brain force, by brain culture, education, in the improvement and perfection of the intellectual faculties, so that we may exercise our understanding and judgment, free and untrammeled, to the benefit of ourselves and to the benefit of our neighbors. The perfection you imagine your God ought to be, exalt yourself to that perfection, and be an intelligent free man. CHAPTER XXVII. VISIONS--BIBLE DREAMS--REVELATIONS. These are the fireworks of the imagination. Isaiah's vision, chapter vi, 1, 2: "I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. "Around it stood the seraphim; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly," etc. Ezekiel, chapter iii: Son of man eats the roll. Vision of chapter viii: "A fire below the loins, and the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber upwards," etc. Chapter ix: "Six men with slaughter weapons, clothed in white linen with a writer's inkhorn by the side." Chapter x: "Above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire-stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne." Verse 2: "Go in between the wheels even under the cherub, and fill thine hands with coals of fire," etc. Verse 4: "And the house was filled with a cloud," etc. Verse 8: "And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings." Verse 9: "Four wheels," etc. Verse 12: "And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and their wheels were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had." Verse 14: And every one had four faces, the first face was the face of a cherub, the second the face of a man, the third that of a lion, the fourth the face of an eagle, etc. Chapter xxii: Sin. Chapter xxiii: Whoredoms. Chapter xxxviii: Boneyard. Chapter xlvii: Visions of holy waters. Daniel's visions, dreams: