Personal Communications>Personal Letter:  Thomas, Jefferson (13 Oct 1813), Letter to John Adams: Study of Moral Principles, Retrieved on 2011-01-24
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    24 JAN 2011

     Jefferson's Intention with �The Philosophy of Jesus of Na...

    In extracting the pure principles which he taught, we should have to strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power to themselves. We must dismiss the Platonists and Plotinists, the Stagyrites and Gamalielites, the Eclectics, the Gnostics and Scholastics, their essences and emanations, their logos and demiurges, aeons and daemons, male and female, with a long train of … or, shall I ...
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    A description of the problems Jefferson had with the gospels in their existing form, which were easily twisted for greedy purposes.

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