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Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, published in three parts from 1794, was a best seller in America, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. Promoting a creator-God while advocating reason in the place of revelation, Paine’s controversial pamphlet caused his native British audience, fearing the results of the French Revolution, to receive it with more hostility than their American counterparts.

En todo hombre duermen facultades que le permiten adquirir conocimientos de los mundos superiores. El místico, el gnóstico, el teósofo, siempre han hablado de un mundo anímico y de un mundo espiritual, tan reales para ellos como el que ven nuestros ojos físicos y toca nuestra mano. Aquí se describen los pasos para llegar a conocer el mundo suprasensible. Cómo realizar los ejercicios de acuerdo a su individualidad. Reglas de utilidad para el modo de vivir. Indicaciones sobre enigmas del alma.

Declaring the church corrupt and urging rationality over revelation, Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason directly opposed the existing political and religious order of his time. Initially printed in pamphlet form, his work audaciously employed “vulgar” everyday language, as Paine sought to bring his message, and the appeal of deism, to the masses.