Those who compiled this book were men as we are. They knew, saw, handled and realized, through
the key measure, the law of the living, ever active God. They needed no faith that He was, that He
worked, planned and accomplished, as a mighty mechanic and architect. What was it, then, that reserved
to them alone this knowledge, while first as men of God, and second as Apostles of Jesus the Christ,
they doled out a blinding ritual service, and an empty teaching of faith and no substance as
proof, properly coming through the exercise of just those senses which the Deity has given all
men as the essential means of obtaining any right understanding? Mystery and parable, and
dark saying, and cloaking of the true meanings are the burden of the Testaments, Old and
New. Take it that the narratives of the Bible were purposed inventions to deceive the ignorant
masses, even while enforcing a most perfect code of moral obligations: How is it possible to
justify so great frauds, as part of the Divine economy, when to that economy, the attribute of
simple and perfect truthfulness must, in the nature of things, be ascribed? What has,
or what by possibility ought mystery to have, with the promulgation of the truths of God?