Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE MESSIAH. BOOK. IX. THE ARGUMENT. Eloa returns from the throne of God, and relates what he ',has seen. The behaviour of Peter, who joins Samma and a stranger, and afterwards successively meets Leb- . bens, his brother Andrew, Joseph, and Nicodemus, and then returns to Golgotha, where he sees John, and the female friends of Jesus. A conversation between Abraham and Moses. They are joined by Isaac. Abraham and Isaac address the Messiah. A cherub conducts the souls of some pious heathens to the cross. Christ speaks to John and Mary. Abaddona, assuming the appearance of an angel of light, comes to the cross ; but being known by Abdiel, flks. Obaddon conducts the soul of Judas to the cross, then gives him a distant, view of heaven, and at length conveys him to hell. ELOA now filled with deep contemplation, slowly hovered over the pinnacles of the temple, and then came to the assembly of the progenitors f the human race : whom he thus addressed : Before I communicate my thoughts, oh join in prayer with me. Ere I speak, I will offer my derations. All then, with humble prostration, m silence adored the Infinite and Eternal, and silent roie. Eloa still continued rapt in thought; but at last said: To the First of beings, to him whom no name Cn express, no thought conceive, I have just soared, desiring to see him face to face, in all his tremendous glory. I reached the suns that gild the radient path to heaven, and they were dimmed. 1 then ascended to the celestial throne, where darkness progressive deepened beyond darkness ; but no words can express the deepness of the sable cloud, in which the Eternal was involved, nor the awful terrors with which he was environed. I steod amidst the profound silence of the fair creation : I sunk prostrate, adoring the great Omnipot...