We mean to show in this lecture, that it is an _Antiquated, Hypocritical, Demoralizing Atheism_.
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_Pantheism is an Antiquated Heresy._--It has rotted and putrefied among the worshipers of cats, and monkeys, and holy bulls, and bits of sticks and stones, on the banks of the Ganges, for more than two thousand years; yet it is now hooked up out of its dunghill, and hawked about among Christian people, as a prime new discovery of modern philosophy for getting rid of Almighty God.

As the Hindoo Shasters are undoubtedly the sources from which French, German, and American philosophers have borrowed their dogmas, and as they have not had time to take the whole system, we shall edify the public by a view of this sublime theology as exhibited in the writings of the Pantheistic philosophers of India, as follows: "When existing in the temporary imperfect state of _Sagun_, Brahm (the Pantheist deity) wills to manifest the universe.

For this purpose he puts forth his omnipotent energy, which is variously styled in the different systems now under review.

He puts forth his energy for what?
For the effecting of a creation out of nothing?
'No,' says one of the Shasters, but to '_produce from his own divine substance a multiform universe_.' By the spontaneous exertion of this energy he sends forth, from his own divine substance, a countless host of essences, like innumerable sparks issuing from the blazing fire, or myriads of rays from the resplendent sun.