“1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul, for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
“2. Energy is the only life, and is from the Body; and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
“3. Energy is Eternal Delight.
“Those who restrain desire to do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer, or reason, usurps its place and governs the unwilling.
“And being restrained it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire.
“The history of this is written in ‘Paradise Lost,’ and the Governor, or Reason, is called Messiah.
“And the original Archangel, or possessor of the command of the heavenly host, is called the Devil or Satan, and his children are called Sin and Death.
“But in the Book of Job Milton’s Messiah is called Satan.
“For this history has been adopted by both parties.
“It indeed appeared to Reason as if Desire was cast out; but the Devil’s account is, that the Messiah fell, and formed a heaven of what he stole from the Abyss.