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Excerpt from An Answer to the World, for Putting in Print a Book in 1804, Called Copies and Parts of Copies of Letters and Communication, Written From Joanna Southcolt, and Transmitted by Miss. Townley to Mr. W. Sharp in London: Beginning With the Parable of the Little Flock of Sheep
I hope lshallbe excused for having wandered from the subject but while mankind are under the government of the Moon, these melancholy facts suddenly appear to my view: therefore I shall again proceed with the rising sun, which is described as a type or emblem of Christ, whoisthe true light and life of Man and it is by his wisdom alone that the darkness proceeding from the Moon, which is a type of Satan, can be dispersed. We all know, that, at the first appearance of the rays of the sun above the horizon, the shadows first appear, pro duced from substances, or objects that are behind. Let the reader here re¿ect on the simplicity of this language drawn from nature; and how easy this may be under stood by every capacity, whether learned or not for these effects in nature do not require the aid of what is called learning, but may be understood by illiterate men ofevery nation and language, however ignorant they may be of the different modes of speech, with all their endless variations; and which scholars are so proud of displaying, and who waste so much of a short life in their pursuit, only that their own dear selves may be admired. This may appear to some like honey cove ring over a dish full of dirt (as mentioned in page 31 of Joanna's Prophecies.) These characters treat with contempt the parables used by Christ, for human instruction 3 and they reject also every knowledge produced by types and shadows. Therefore as man cannot be brought to the knowledge of wisdom at once, he can only be gradually instruct ed, like the introduction of the light of the morning. For any man to be brought suddenly out of darkness to behold the sun in its meridian splendor is impossible even the light of candles, when introduced into a room, has been too strong for the eye, after the company has been sitting together at the close of the day therefore the splendid sun must produce the wonderful effect like the deprivation of sight. These common observations I(14.
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