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ALL RELIGIONS are ONE
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The Voice of one crying in the Wilderness
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The Argument As the true method of knowledge is experiment
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the true faculty of knowing must be the faculty which
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experiences. This faculty I treat of.
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PRINCIPLE 1st That the Poetic Genius is the true Man. and that
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the body or outward form of Man is derived from the Poetic
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Genius. Likewise that the forms of all things are derived from
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their Genius. which by the Ancients was call'd an Angel & Spirit
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& Demon.
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PRINCIPLE 2d As all men are alike in outward form, So (and
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with the same infinite variety) all are alike in the Poetic
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Genius
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PRINCIPLE 3d No man can think write or speak from his heart,
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but he must intend truth. Thus all sects of Philosophy are from
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the Poetic Genius adapted to the weaknesses of every
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individual
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PRINCIPLE 4. As none by traveling over known lands can find out
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the unknown. So from already acquired knowledge Man could not
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acquire more. therefore an universal Poetic Genius exists
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PRINCIPLE. 5. The Religions of all Nations are derived from
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each Nations different reception of the Poetic Genius which is
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every where call'd the Spirit of Prophecy.
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PRINCIPLE 6 The Jewish & Christian Testaments are An original
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derivation from the Poetic Genius. this is necessary from the
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confined nature of bodily sensation
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PRINCIPLE 7th As all men are alike (tho' infinitely various) So
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all Religions & as all similars have one source
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The true Man is the source he being the Poetic Genius
