Revealed religions consist of three The Trinity, Father, Son, parts, all more or less untrue. (1) A and Holy Ghost. Cosmogony more or less absurd. (2) An Historical sketch, more or less falsified. (3) A System of morality more or less pure. III. III. The Higher Law of Humanity bids Jesus Christ, born of the us cast off the slough of old creeds, Virgin Mary. especially the obsolete and the debasing doctrine of degradation; the Fall of Man, Original Sin, Redemption, Salvation, and so forth. IV. IV. Reason, while suggesting the idea Salvation and Hope. of a First Cause, a God, forbids us, in the present stage of humanity, to inquire further into the subject. V. V. The description of the Devil and Good and bad deeds and his Angels, of Hell, Heaven, and expiation. Purgatory given by "Revealed Religions" are equally dishonouring to the Creator, and debasing to the Creature, if at least the latter be the work of the former. VI. VI. Death, physically considered, is not The Catholic Church and annihilation, but change. Sacraments. VII. VII. Man's individuality, his Ego, survives Resurrection of body and the death of the body. Soul. VIII. VIII. To most races of men, the idea of Communion with the Saints annihilation is painful, whilst that of and the Dead. eternal parting is too heavy to be borne. IX. IX. A next world, a continuation of Passing over al-Sirat, the this world, is against our Reason, but bridge as fine as a hair, to it is supported by sentiment, and by El Mathar, or Purgatory--to the later traditions of both the Aryan Heaven. and the Semitic races. X. X. The only idea of continuation acceptable Hell--Eternity.[1] to man, is that the future world is a copy of this world, whilst the law of Progress suggests that it is somewhat less material and not subject to death or change. [Sidenote: _We leave London--I get a Bad Fall_.]