UNIVERSALITY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF LOVE. 



trcsoasses and sins shall awake to new life and 

 activity ; this bedlam of the universe will be restor 

 ed to reason and intellectual freedom, and to the 

 society of angelic messengers, and the face of the 

 moral creation will be renewed after the image 

 of its maker. Then wars shall cease to the 

 ends of the earth, and anarchy and dissension 

 shall convulse the nations no more ; violence 

 will no more be heard in any land, u liberty will 

 be proclaimed to the captives, and the opening of 

 the prison-doors to them that are bound.&quot; The 

 spirit of malevolence will be vanquished, its 

 power will be broken, and its operations demo 

 lished. The order and beauty of the celestial 

 system will be restored. &quot; Holiness to the 

 Lord&quot; will be inscribed on all the implements 

 and employments of mankind. Kindness and 

 compassion will form the amiable characteristic 

 of every rank of social life. Love will spread 

 her benignanWvings over the globe, and reign 

 uncontrolled in the hearts of all its inhabitants. 

 For thus saith the voice of Him who sits on the 

 throne of the universe, &quot; Behold I make all 

 things new I create new heavens and a new 

 earth, and the former shall not be remembered, 

 nor come into mind. Be ye glad, and rejoice 

 for ever in that which I create ; for behold, I 

 create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a 

 joy, and the voice of weeping shall be no more 

 heard in her, nor the voice of crying.&quot; 



SECTION VI. 



UNIVERSALITY OF THE PRINCIPLES OF LOVE 

 TO GOD, AND TO FELLOW-INTELLIGENCES. 



THE grand principles of morality tc which I 

 have now adverted, are not to be viewe as con 

 fined merely to the inhabitants of our gl be, but 

 as extending to all intellectual beings. They 

 form the basis of the moral laws, which govern 

 all intelligences throughout the vast universe, in 

 whatever world or region of infinite space they 

 may have their physical residence ; and they 

 constitute the bond which unites to the supreme 

 intelligence, and to one another, all holy beings, 

 wherever existing in the wide empire of Omnipo 

 tence. This will at once appear, if we reflect 

 for a moment, on what has been stated in the 

 preceding sections. We have seen, that, if 

 those laws or principles were reversed, and were 

 the moral agents of our world to act accordingly, 

 nothing would ensue, but anarchy, %vretchedness, 

 horror, and devastation, and ultimately a com 

 plete extermination of the race of mankind. And 

 by parity of reason, it will follow, that were the 

 name principles to operate in any other world, 

 however different the capacities, relations, and 

 physical circumstances of its inhabitants might 

 be. similar disastrous effects would be the inevi- 

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table result ; and were they to pervade all world*, 

 disorder and misery would reign uncontrolled 

 throughout the whole intelligent system. 



When the Creator brought any particular 

 world into existence, and peopled it with inhabit 

 ants, we must suppose, that the laws to which I 

 am now adverting, were either formally address- 

 ed to them by some external revelation, or so 

 powerfully impressed upon their moral constitu 

 tion, as to become the main-spring of all their 

 actions, so long as they might retain the original 

 principles implanted in their minds by the Author 

 of their existence. Any other supposition would 

 be fraught with the most absurd and horrible 

 consequences. It would be subversive of every 

 idea we are led to form of the character of the 

 Divine Being, inconsistent with the perfect bene 

 volence and rectitude of his nature, and incom 

 patible with the relations in which rational be 

 ings stand to Him and to one another, and with 

 the harmony and happiness of the universe, to 

 suppose, that any creatures now exist, or ever 

 can exist, to whom such commands as these 

 would be given, &quot; Thou shall hate thy Creator, 

 who is the source of thine existence ;&quot; and 

 &quot; Thou shall hate all thy fellow-intelligences with 

 whom thou mayst associate.&quot; And if the mind 

 would recoil with horror, at the idea of such 

 laws issuing forth from the throne of the Eternal 

 to any class of moral agents, it must necessarily 

 be admitted, lhat the opposite principles or laws, 

 to which I allude, are promulgated to all intelli 

 gences, and are obligalory on every inhabitant 

 of all the worlds which lie between the range o 

 Jehovah s empire. The natural scenery with 

 which the inhabitants of other worlds are sur 

 rounded, the organization of their corporeal 

 frames, the intellectual capacities with which 

 they are endowed, the stated employments in 

 which they engage, and the relations in which 

 they stand to each other, may be ver) different 

 from those which obtain in our terrestrial sphere , 

 but the grand principles to which I refer, must 

 necessarily pervade every faculty of their minds, 

 every active exertion, and every relation that 

 subsists among them, by whatever character it 

 may be dislinguished, if ihey be found existing 

 in a state of happiness. 



The moral code of laws in other worlds may 

 be somewhat differently modified from ours, ac 

 cording vv, .lie circumstances in which the inha 

 bitants of each respective world are placed, and 

 the relations which obtain among them ; but the 

 same general principles will run through every 

 ramification of their moral precepts, and appear in 

 the minutes actions they perform,as the sap which 

 proceeds from the trunk of a tree diffuses itself 

 among the minutest and the most distant branch 

 es. The seventh commandment of our moral code 

 can have no place in a world where the inhabit 

 ants &quot; neither marry nor are given in marriage }&quot; 

 w/iere the succession of intelligent beings is uot 



