The Constitution has nothing to say about the Trinity, nothing of the worship due to the Virgin--on the contrary, that is by implication sternly condemned; nothing about transubstantiation, or the making of the flesh and blood of God by the priest; nothing of the invocation of the saints.

It bears on its face subordination to the thought of the age, the impress of the intellectual progress of man.
THE PASSAGE OF EUROPE TO LLAMAISM.

Such being the exposition rendered to us respecting the attributes of God, it next instructs us as to his mode of government of the world.

The Church asserts that she possesses a supernatural control over all material and moral events.

The priesthood, in its various grades, can determine issues of the future, either by the exercise of its inherent attributes, or by its influential invocation of the celestial powers.