True Life of Jesus of Nazareth, the Confessions of St. Paul

Dedicated to the Christian Clergy of all denominations - In compliance with the commands of my spirit friends, I am impelled to draw your attention to a subject of deep interest and vast importance to the Christian world. For eighteen centuries and more, gentlemen of your profession have undertaken to teach and expound the doctrines of the Christian faith. Sermons as numerous as the sands of the sea shore have been preached and books have been written, enough in bulk to build a large city, endeavoring to reconcile the Christian dogmas with truth and reason, without accomplishing the end in view; for the same mysteries and subjects of dispute and contention exist now, as in the commencement, shocking to every one of common sense who is desirous of knowing the truth. The reason for this is obvious. The New Testament, which is the text book of Christianity, when judged by the philosophy of the present day, is found to be a compilation of misstatements, misconceptions, perversions, and nearly every thing else opposite to that which it professes to be. The very character of Jesus as therein represented is a myth, a being of fabulous and impossible existence, of whom it is impossible to conceive in any natural and consistent light.