subjects." Pastor Russell does not approve of
the Methodists, and he quotes twelve verses of Revelation, line by
line and phrase by phrase, showing how the evil course and downfall of
the Wesleyan system were divinely foretold. Thus:

"But that they should be tormented five months."--In
symbolic time, 150 years--5x30=150. (Ezek. 4:6.) Wesley
became the first Methodist in 1728. (Rev. 9: 1.) When the
Methodist denomination, with all the others, was cast off
from favor in 1878 (Rev. 3:14) its powers to torment men by
preaching what Presbyterians describe as "Conscious misery,
eternal in duration" came to an end legally, and to a large
extent actually.--Rev. 9:10.

P.S. A few months pass, and while this book is going to press, "The
Finished Mystery" is suppressed by the government and several score
"Bible Students" are landed in jail for sedition.

#Koreshanity#

Such are the beliefs built on the Bible. But there are other ancient
writings with strange nomenclature and ritual and symbolism,
calculated to impress the unlettered; also our prophets have
imaginations of their own, and can invent nomenclature and ritual and
symbolism never seen in heaven nor on earth before. Thus there is Dr.
Newo Newi New, who called himself "Archbishop of the Newthot Church,"
and gathered about him a harem of devoted females in San Francisco,
and was landed in jail for using the mails to defraud. Or there is
"Oahspe, the Cosmic Bible," a work of brand-new revelation with a
brand-new view of the universe and all things therein:

The reader soon discovers that he must radically revise not
only his ideas of celestial Cosmogony, but the order and
significance of names and titles commonly applied to the
Transcendental Brethren. The great provinces of Etheria are
presided over by chiefs, chosen for their superior
development in wisdom and love. For our solar system to
cross one of these provinces requires about 3,000 years, and
between them are belts of high Etherian light which take
several years to pass over. The passage of each province is
a cycle of earthly history, and the crossings are called
Dawns of Dan.

And here is Koreshanity, a revelation vouchsafed by the Lord to Dr.
C.R. Teed of Chicago in the year 1889. This new seer took the name of
Koresh, which is Hebrew for Cyrus, "the Shepherd from Joseph, the
Stone of Israel, the Sun-Man; the