The Roommate From Hell

347: Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of

349: thus began Priesthood.

350: Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales.

351: And a length they pronounc’d that the Gods had order’d such things.

352: Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.

353: The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me,

354: and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert that God spoke to them;

378: he answer’d, the same that made our friend Diogenes the Grecian.

379: I then asked Ezekiel, why he eat dung, & lay so long on his right & left side?

380: he answer’d, the desire of raising other men into a perception of the infinite;

381: this the North American tribes practise, & is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification?

382: The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.