The Religion of Geology and Its Connected SciencesHitchcock, Edward
Religion
The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences
Hitchcock, Edward
Bible and geology; Religion and science
"There is no dead matter; it is alive through its being, through the
Eternal that is in it. Matter has no existence in itself, but it is the
Eternal only that exists in it. Every thing is God that is there, and
without God there is absolutely nothing.
"Every thing that is is material. Now, however, there is nothing that is
not; consequently there is every where nothing immaterial.
"Fire is the totality of ether, is God manifested in his totality.
"Every thing that is has originated out of fire; every thing is only
cooled, rigidified fire.
"God being in himself is gravity; acting, self-emergent light; both
together, or returning into himself, heat.
"God only is monocentral. The world is the bicentral God, God the
monocentral world, which is the same with the monas and dyas.
Self-consciousness is a living ellipse.
"God is a threefold trinity; at first the eternal, then the ethereal, and
finally the terrestrial, where it is completely divided.
"The symbolical doctrine of the colors is correct according to the
philosophy of nature. Red is fire, love--Father. Blue is air, truth, and
belief--Son. Green is water, formation, hope--Ghost. These are the three
cardinal virtues. Yellow is earth, the immovable, inexorable falsity, the
only vice--Satan. There are three virtues, but only one vice. A result
obtained by physio-philosophy, whereof pneumato-philosophy as yet augurs
nothing.
"The primary mucus, out of which every thing organic has been created, is
the sea mucus.
"The whole sea is alive. It is a fluctuating, ever self-elevating, and
ever self-depressing organism.
"If the organic fundamental substance consist of infusoria, so must the
whole organic world originate from infusoria. Plants and animals can be
only metamorphoses of infusoria. No organism has consequently been created
of larger size than an infusorial point; whatever is larger has not been
created, but developed.
"The mind, just as the body, must be developed out of these animals,
(infusoria.) The human body has been formed by an extreme separation of
the neuro-protoplasmic or mucous mass; so must the human mind be a
separation, a memberment of infusorial sensation. The highest mind is an
anatomized or dismembered mesmerism, each member whereof has been
constituted independent in itself.
"The liver is the soul in a state of sleep, the brain is the soul active
and awakening.
"Circumspection and forethought appear to be the thoughts of the bivalve
mollusca, and snails.
"Gazing upon a snail, one believes that he finds the prophesying goddess
sitting upon the tripod. What majesty is in a creeping snail, what
reflection, what earnestness, what timidity, and yet at the same time what
firm confidence! Surely a snail is an exalted symbol of mind slumbering
deeply within itself."
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