THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES
It would be a mathematical demonstration of the
infinite.
It would be the infinite finite, the unknown known, the
immeasurable measured, the indicible named.
That is to say that dogma could only cease to be absurd
in the eyes of reason to become, in the eyes of faith, science,
reason and good sense in one, the most monstrous and the
most impossible of all absurdities.
Remain the objections of dissent.
The Jews, our fathers in religion, reproach us with having
attacked the unity of God, with having changed the immut-
able and eternal law, with adoring the creature instead of the
Creator.
These heavy reproaches are founded on their perfectly
false notion of Christianity.
Our God is the God of Moses, unique, immaterial, infinite
God, sole object of worship, and ever the same.
Like the Jews, we believe Him to be present everywhere,
but, as they ought to do, we believe Him living, thinking and
loving in humanity, and we adore Him in His works.
We have not changed His law, for the Jewish Decalogue
is also the law of Christians.
The law is immutable because it is founded on the eternal
principles of Nature; but the worship necessitated by the
needs of man may change, and modify itself, parallel with the
changes in men themselves.
This signifies that the worship itself is immutable, but
modifies itself as language does.
Worship is a form of instruction; it is a language; one
must translate it when nations no longer understand it.
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