[137-1] “So wie das Gebet ein Hauptwurzel alter Lehre war, so war das Deuten und Offenbaren ihre ursprüngliche Form.” Creuzer, Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker, Bd. I., s. 10. It were more accurate to say that divination is the answer to, rather than a form of prayer.
[138-1] Joseph John Gurney, The Distinguishing Views and Practices of the Society of Friends, pp. 58, 59, 76, 78. An easy consequence of this view was to place the decrees of the internal monitor above the written word. This was advocated mainly by Elias Hicks, who expressed his doctrine in the words: “As no spring can rise higher than its fountain, so likewise the Scriptures can only direct to the fountain whence they originated—the Spirit of Truth.” Letters of Elias Hicks, p. 228 (Phila., 1861).
[139-1] Address to the Clergy, p. 67.
[140-1] See an intelligent note on this subject in the Rev. Wm. Lee’s work, entitled The Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, pp. 44, 47 (London and New York, 1857).
[140-2] Rev. William Lee, u. s., p. 243.
[141-1] Blunt, Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical Theology, s. v.
[141-2] There is a carefully written essay on the views of the Romish Church on this subject, preceding The Revelations of Saint Brigida (N. Y. 1875).
[146-1] Chusco or Catherine Wabose, “the prophetess of Chegoimegon,” has left a full and psychologically most valuable account of her inspiration. It is published in Schoolcraft’s History and Statistics of the Indian Tribes, Vol. I., p. 390, sqq.
[147-1] The Koran, Sura liii. This is in date one of the earliest suras.
[147-2] The Journal of George Fox, pp. 59, 67, 69.