Horus, or the Astrognostic Final Judgment

IX Preface.

...contains rational arguments original: "vernünftige Räsonnements", which they simply reject.

Now, something more must be said regarding the various treatises that appear in this book.

It is well-known that many passages of the Bible, but especially the imagery of the Apocalypse the Book of Revelation, cloud the minds of many people and even incite crimes. Rosenfeld Hans Peter Rosenfeld (1732–1803), a self-proclaimed messiah in Prussia who led a small sect and was eventually imprisoned and his followers use the Prophets and the Revelation of John to justify their crimes. Detailed accounts of this can be found in the first volume of the Berlin New Monthly Journal original: "berlinischen neuen Monatsschrift", a leading publication of the German Enlightenment.

The Moravian-reborn shepherd referring to the Herrnhuter or Moravian Brethren, a Pietist Christian movement known for emotional devotion—who did not believe he was perfectly reborn or fully faithful unless he could sacrifice his most beloved, just as Abraham did—prayed to God for this cruel faith until he felt faithful enough to strike his three young sons dead with an axe and offer them as a sacrifice to God as a seal of his faith. This can be read in the first volume of the Yearbooks of Taste and Enlightenment. That the man believed he had done right and earned eternal salvation original: "ewige Seeligkeit" thereby, he attempts to prove from the twenty-second chapter of the First Book of Moses the Book of Genesis, specifically the story of the binding of Isaac.

Even now, when the malcontents in the United Netherlands wish to insult the Hereditary Stadtholder the Erbstadthalter, the chief executive of the Dutch Republic, likely referring to William V during the political unrest of the 1780s, they make use of biblical prophecies and call him the Antichrist. Whether they do so in jest or in earnest, I do not know; I only know that such writings and