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Title: The Creation of God

Author: Jacob Hartmann

Release Date: June 1, 2019 [EBook #59651]

Language: English


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Frontispiece: Map of the Intellectual Faculties—The Mind.

Original Title Page.
THE CREATION OF GOD.
BY
DR. JACOB HARTMANN,
M.D. St. Louis Medical College; Bachelor of Medicine, Toronto University;
M.B. Trinity College, Ontario; Member of the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario; Licentiate of the
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Edinburgh, Scotland; Member of the
County Medical Society of
New York, etc., etc.
New York:
THE TRUTH SEEKER COMPANY,
28 Lafayette Place.

Copyrighted, 1893,
by
Dr. Jacob Hartmann
.

CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Universal Aspect, 9 II. The Earth, 21 III. The Chemical Aspect, 39 IV. The Sun, 51 V. Genesis—The Creation, 67 VI. Genesis—The Garden of Eden, 80 VII. The Deluge, 92 VIII. The Scriptural God—The Creation, 101 IX. The Creation of God—Abraham, 112 X. Moses—Confirmation of the Idea of God, 119 XI. Samuel the Kingmaker, 138 XII. God Save the King, 147 XIII. Jehova Takes a Rest, 170 XIV. The End of National Life, 178 XV. The Christian Era, 200 XVI. Organic Life—Vegetable, 212 XVII. Organic Life—Animal, 221 The Master Tissues. The Muscular Tissues. The Nervous Tissues. XVIII. Food and Food-Substances, 242 XIX. Elimination of Waste Substances, 250 In General. By the Lungs. By the Skin. By the Kidneys. XX. Digestion, Nutrition, 278 XXI. The Elementary Substances, 300 XXII. Alcohol and Its Effects on the System, 310 XXIII. The Soul—What is it? 321 The Mind. XXIV. Sin and Salvation, 340 XXV. The Ecclesiastical Kindergarten, 353 XXVI. Rational Review, 372 XXVII. Visions—Bible Dreams-Revelations, 380 XXVIII. The Planetary Gods, 392 XXIX. Every Man His Own God, 403
Tables { Gateways to Knowledge. Morals: Whence They Spring. XXX. The Non Credo, 418 Rules for Human Conduct.
Table of Contents CONTENTS. 4 ILLUSTRATIONS. 5 PREFACE. 6 I. UNIVERSAL ASPECT. 10 II. THE EARTH. 22 THE ATMOSPHERE. 37 III. THE CHEMICAL ASPECT. 40 IV. THE SUN. 52 V. GENESIS—THE CREATION. 68 VI. GENESIS—THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 81 VII. THE DELUGE. 93 VIII. THE SCRIPTURAL GOD—THE CREATION. 102 IX. THE CREATION OF GOD—ABRAHAM. 113 X. MOSES.—THE CONFIRMATION OF THE IDEA OF GOD. 120 XI. SAMUEL THE KINGMAKER—THE WARWICK OF ANTIQUITY. 139 XII. GOD SAVE THE KING! 148 THE TWO KINGDOMS—JUDAH, ISRAEL. 166 THE MIRACLE-MONGERS. 168 XIII. JEHOVA TAKES A REST. 171 XIV. THE END OF NATIONAL LIFE. 179 XV. THE CHRISTIAN ERA. 201 XVI. ORGANIC LIFE—VEGETABLE. 213 ANIMAL-VEGETABLES, PROTISTA. 217 XVII. ORGANIC LIFE—ANIMAL. 222 ANIMAL LIFE. 222 PHILOSOPHICO-ANATOMICAL VIEWS OF A CELEBRATED HEBREW AUTHOR, AFTER TALMUDISTIC INTERPRETATION. 228 THE MUSCULAR TISSUES. 230 THE CEREBRO-SPINAL SYSTEM. 235 XVIII. FOOD AND FOOD-SUBSTANCES. 243 XIX. THE ELIMINATION OF WASTE SUBSTANCES. 251 HEAT AND TEMPERATURE. 265 THE CIRCULATION. 267 THE BLOOD. 271 THE ORGANS OF RESPIRATION. 273 XX. DIGESTION, NUTRITION. 279 XXI. THE ELEMENTARY SUBSTANCES. 301 XXII. ALCOHOL AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE SYSTEM. 311 XXIII. THE SOUL—WHAT IS IT? 322 THE MIND. 333 XXIV. SIN AND SALVATION. 341 THE LITANY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN. 352 XXV. THE ECCLESIASTICAL KINDERGARTEN. 354 XXVI. RATIONAL REVIEW. 373 Second. 375 Third. 376 Fourth. 378 XXVII. VISIONS—BIBLE DREAMS—REVELATIONS. 381 XXVIII. THE PLANETARY GODS. 395 XXIX. EVERY MAN HIS OWN GOD. 406 XXX. THE NON CREDO. 421
ILLUSTRATIONS. Map of the Intellectual Faculties—The Mind, opp. title-page. Map of Theological Retrogression, opp. p. 390 Map of the Deluge and Garden of Eden, opp. p. 432

PREFACE.

“Si les nommes étaient capables de gouverner toute la conduite de leur vie par un dessein reglé, si la fortune leur était toujours favorable, leur âme serait libre de toute superstition.”

Spinoza, 1650.

“Il n’y a pas de moyen plus efficace que la

Superstition pour gouverner la multitude.”

Quinte Curce.

“But in the temple of their hireling hearts

Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn

All earthly things but virtue.”

“Falsehood demands but gold to pay the pangs

Of outraged conscience; for the slavish priest

Sets no great value on his hireling faith.”

“But human pride

Is skillful to invent most serious names

To hide its ignorance.”

Shelley.

At this time, in this age of agitation, unrest, dissatisfaction, and doubt among the masses, and all classes, in every civilized part of the globe, in all communities and human organizations, in church and out of church, ecclesiastical bodies of all shades; besides the vast number of theories and doctrines of a popular socialistic, anti-poverty, communistic order, etc., a prevailing skepticism has seized the minds of men, as to the truth, validity, and stability of the entire religious fabric. The unsettled condition of the minds of men, the disturbing elements of the laboring classes, the church quarrels, clerical litigations, disputes, wrangling, and mutual hate about scriptural authenticity, its truth and supernaturalism, the heresies and blasphemies, the unsatisfactory condition of the Roman church, the constant and unremitting papal correspondence, the petty bickering, the selfish zeal, the greed for money, the anxiety to raise funds for all kinds of ecclesiastical establishments, naturally arouse suspicion whether the idea of a God is not going out of fashion, whether the clergy has not lost faith in the Book, whether the Jew, the Jehovistic aristocrat, has not been the primary inventor of these supernatural wares, whether the Christian theologians are not beginning to lose their sway and grip and their pretended supernatural authority over their ignorant devotees. We may ask frankly, honestly, truthfully, and in perfect good faith:

Has not the time arrived for a grand and human reformation? For new methods of teaching, for new and more accurate ideas, for a more precise knowledge of the natural, for instructions in absolute facts, for a more thorough understanding of natural laws, for a broader comprehension of man himself and his surroundings, for an abandonment of all the supernatural subterfuge, ignorance, and superstition, of religious fables, miracles, false theories, and misleading doctrines as to God, with their immense sacrifice of human life.

Within the limits of the church nothing is to be hoped for, nor can anything be expected, except the greedy grasping of the hard-earned money of the ignorant laboring classes, the fanatical devotees, to sustain and uphold a mercenary priesthood, a rotten supernatural system that has proved so pernicious to mankind. Europe, at one time the rich pasture for the holy Roman Catholic apostolic church, no longer pours the milk and honey into the supreme pontiff’s lap as of yore. In a letter dated “Rome, Feb. 3d,” Ledochowski writes of Leo XIII.’s solicitude for the good of religion in these parts: “The supreme pontiff has many reasons of sadness on account

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