New-York daily tribune., 1844-03-09
profsssor Bronson.s Lecture.

The second Lecture of Professor Bronson upon
Universal Philosophy was delivered last night
at the Tabernacle, and was, We think, even bet
ter liked than the first-being somewhat more
oiolant in its details and the manner IN which
they were treated. After some recapitu!atory re-
marks and further explanations IN relation TO the
general subject and arrangement of the Lectures
the Professor passed to the character of the Ke-
demption, which he handled in a bold but by no
means irreverent manner The doctrine that
Man is Microcosm an epitome OF the whole
universe, both spiritual and physical, andls in HIM
self not only the type bat the basis and perfection
of Creation, was strongly and ably insisted upon,
and the postulatc logically arrived at that the
Divine assumption of humanity could not have
been possible unless Man had been the epItomc OF
all created things. The necessity Of that assump-
,ion and the philosophy of the Redemption were
then dwelt upon IN a novel and interesting man.
ner. The Lecturer then passed by natural
transition to consideration of the perrersionS Of
Divine knowledge and a philosophical and IN
teresting explanation of the Scriptural meaning OF
Adam and Eve in Paradise.
The Lecturer next took up the subject OF An
cient History, and the origin of the ancient SCI
ences of Astroogy, &c. This part of the Lee.
turc was, to our thinking, the most valuable and
interesting of the whole; and the views OF the
Lecturer were exactly what we, and VIC presume
thousands of others, have frequently felt but ne
yer seen fully expressed That some mighty
and mysterious truths are not only mixed up wlth
but form the basis Of the wild and erratlc dream
ings Of the Astroogists and Fanatics OF Science
in the olden time there can scarcely be doubt
The beautiful lines of Willis, applied to the Dy-
ing Alchymist,' have for years fingered III our
memory:
He was sen, bliadiod .ah Of light,
And tufneJ aside and pershed."
They were forciblv and vividly recalled while ap-
plying the observations of Professor Bronson on
Astrology and the Ancient Sciences
From this point the Lecturer passed to the con
sderaton Of Miracles, the True and the False,
and the philosophical explanation, according to
the sciences of correspondence, (Which has been
| exhumed from the Tomb of Ages, and operates
according to the Professor, with all the accuracy
OF mathematics of the:Anatomy OF Man, with
| reference to the twelve Signs Of the Zodiac, as
seen (but never at all UNDERSTOOD IN the Alma
nae. The consideration of this topic was full OF
the Lecturers peculiar system OF philosophy, and
| his views were clearly and iorclbly expressed
He showed very plainly that these ancient Sym
bols of which nothing but the unmeaning forms
remain to the common nina at the present day,
had at their origin a deep and wondrous mean
ing, intimately connected with all the great mys-
teries of the Universe; and that, although much
! of error and fanaticism were mingled in the vaga-
ries of these Dreams of the oden Time, yet none
but superficial and ssli-sufficient minds would
dare to discard them altogether, or even to ap-
p-oach them without a species of respect and
awe.
The ancient Mythology, with Isis, Osiris, the
worship of the Sun and Moon, Pan, &c. then
came to be considered, and the Lecture closed
with an explanation OF the strange and startling
theory of Metempsychoss (or transmgratlon Of
Souls which has occasoned so much speculation
in the philosophical world, and the assertion o
the great and important truth that all created
things exist and subsist by action and rejection
i. e. by the Divine Influx, and an effort to return
| TO the Divine.