I have
adopted the title of `the Alist, or Divine,' for this periodical,
because the extension of Divinity and divine truth is its main
object. It appears to me, that by a firm adherence to the {to
Theion}, or divine principle of things, a Magazine may assume a
specific character, far more elevated, catholic, and attractive, than
the majority of periodicals attain. This Magazine is therefore
specially written for those persons who may, without impropriety, be
termed Alists, or Divines; those who endeavor to develop Divinity as
the grand primary essence of all existence, -- the element which
forms the all in all, -- the element in which we live, and move, and
have our being. Such Alists, (deriving their name from Alah -- the
Hebrew title of God,) are Divines in the highest sense of the word;
for they cultivate Alism, or the Divinity of Divinities, as exhibited
in all Scripture and nature, and they extend religious and
philanthropical influences through all churches, states, and systems
of education. This doctrine of Alism, or the life of God in the soul
of man, affords the only prothetic point of union, sufficiently
intense and authoritative to unite men in absolute catholicity.
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