The Spirit of God as Fire; the Globe Within the Sun Our Heaven

THE
REASONS FOR SUCH HYPOTHESIS FOUNDED UPON GOD'S OWN REVELATIONS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS THROUGH THE LIGHTS OF ASTRONOMY.
PUBLISHED BY F. C. COOK & CO., NEW YORK. NEW YORK: SHELDON & COMPANY, 498 & 500 BROADWAY. 1870.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by D. MORTIMORE, M. D., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee.

In presenting this volume to the intelligence of the world, the author is fully aware of the incredulity with which it may meet in many literary minds. Nevertheless, the truths which it contains will remain unmarred by the salient attacks of critics, when they have passed away and have ceased to be remembered. Thus it has ever been with the discovery of all great and important truths, from the creation of man down to the present day. For more than eighteen hundred years now past, the succession of a once prominent race have disbelieved in the Messiahship of Christ. And even the Christian world are still divided in their belief as to a Trinity in Unity.
Some three hundred years ago, the great and learned philosopher and astronomer, Galileo, made an ascent in the empire of mind and science, and promulgated immutable truths founded upon the laws of creation, emanating from God himself; yet these were, for a time, disbelieved, and, through the bigotry of a controlling Priesthood, he was even forced to renounce them before a court of Cardinals of the Romish Church, sitting as inquisitors against heretical depravity at the city of Rome; and at the venerable age of seventy years, to accept the sentence to a dungeon for life, in the Inquisition; and yet these same truths have universally prevailed. So, also, are there unbelievers to-day, in the existence of a God, and the immortality of the soul—the truth of which all Christians, and even heathens, believe.
We, therefore, feel that in advancing a new theory, especially one of such magnitude and import, that we shall meet more or less opposition; but we are willing to abide time's inevitable changes, in advancing the mind to grasp and comprehend truths which God himself has revealed for our contemplation. Still, we believe that there are many millions who are now ready to comprehend and believe, and are only waiting for a little additional light, or the grouping together of facts founded on the revelations of God, and examined in the light of a true science.