in our Pantheon, of all persons in
our Trinity, this must be the first.

I cannot fasten on the revelation which needs another to make it
revelation to me; but when the divine aid is given, we seek no farther,
for in this communion we have already all that was sought. The private
illumination converts to gospel every creature on which its ray may
fall; it makes a Bible of the world, a Bible of the heart. The doctors
with dandling have now kept the child from his feet till there is doubt
whether he have any feet. In this cradle of the record he shall spend
his snug and comfortable life. "Here is safety!" Of course, he is
bed-ridden.

But the weakness of man is no impediment to God. Remember who creates,
who renews, who goes abroad in perpetual miracle of building,
inhabiting, becoming. It is not a question of human power, but of
divine.

Spiritual presence, apocalypse of every apocalypse, becomes our primal
fact. It is the root of Protestantism, Democracy, Individualism. The
sanctity of conscience is a rest of man upon undeniable Deity. There is
no room for intervention of Peter or Paul.

The mind is immanence of Being, an original relation to all we have
named reality and worshipped as divine. There are truths which we must
reckon with Swedenborg among the Fundamentals of Humanity. To hold them
is to be Man,--to be admitted to the hopeful council of our kind.
Freedom is such a fundamental of the moral sense. From the thought of
property in man we erect ourselves in God's name with indignant
protestation, wiping it and its apologists together as dirt from our
feet. By an equal necessity we count out from every discourse of reason
those who find in them no organ of ultimate communication, who refer
from common consciousness to saint and sage, as though God could be shut
from presence and supremacy in thought. They are intellectual
non-combatants who so refer. We take them at their own valuation; their
certainty of uncertainty, their confession of remoteness from the centre
we accept; but we must turn from the very angels, if they be not
permitted for themselves to know. There is no outside to the universe
except this embryotic condition, wherein a man may think that there is
no result of thought.

I suppose no individual thinker will ever again have the importance
which attaches to a few names in history. No man will found a religion
with Mahomet, or overlie philosophers like Calvin, or shoulder out the
poets like