Lectionary Readings for Saturday, February 8th, 2020

Seventh-Day Sabbath

Book of Apollo, Son of Jehovih. Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3

BEING THE HEAVENLY ADMINISTRATION OF APOLLO, AN ETHEREAN GOD.

Chapter 1

1. Apollo, Son of Jehovih, resident of Pti’mus, in etherea, and God of Suf’ad and Don’ga
and Tah, in the South Province of Buru, Orian Chief, controller of vortices, said:

2. I, Apollo, once a mortal, proclaim: First, wisdom, peace and patience unto all men, and
comprehensive judgment whereof I speak; second, to perceive the reason of things, as to
what seemeth to have been, and of what cometh after.

3. For the Great Spirit is all Harmony and Perfection, abounding in time and in worlds to
accomplish all possible imaginings; wherefore, be ye magnified in conception, not
judging by the little understanding of mortals.

4. So that he that asserteth harmony being more to the order of Jehovih than that which is
ill-formed or out of time, hath little reason to prove his assertion before a wise man. As
one may assert that ripe fruit is nearer perfection than that which is green, which assertion
is self-evident without proof, so, in the understanding of Gods in the management of
worlds, are things past and present, not things past and present in fact, but more like the
immature and the mature.

5. Since, then, man perceiveth that words, at best, are but slow and coarse representations
of the soul’s conception of things, how much farther distant lieth a God’s wisdom
beyond the reach of mortal understanding! Remember, O man, that couldst thou in a
moment of time recollect all thou hadst ever learned thou wouldst be wise indeed.
Wert thou in tune with thyself, such would be thy wisdom. To advance in such
direction, whereby man becometh attuned, first with himself, then with his immediate
surroundings, then with the magnitude of worlds, and then with Jehovih, so that he
moveth, acteth, and comprehendeth harmoniously, is to become one with the Father.

6. Which condition awaiteth all men, and is called in high heaven, Nirvana, because,
to him that hath attained it, things past and things to come are as an open book.
He can look back to his own beginning in the world, and even beyond, and
withersoever he directeth his eye, he can see and hear even as if the matter now were.

7. Marvel not, O man, that the Gods reveal the words and signs of things long since
perished corporeally; the proofs he could give, thou couldst not understand, for the basis
of spiritual entity lieth not within the measure of the corporeal senses. Nevertheless,
Jehovih hath given thee comparisons; as a portrait of a man showeth his looks even after
his corporeal body hath perished; and yet, the picture is but a representative. To the
spirit, a corporeal body is but a representative, being a manifested production of a spirit.

8. As out of corporeal things a new thing is produced and born into the world, so out of
Jehovih is born the spirit of man; neither leadeth the corporeal the spirit, nor the spirit the
corporeal; but Jehovih doeth all. Think not, then, that when the corporeal body is dead
and moldereth back to original elements, that in like manner the spirit of man will resolve
itself back into Jehovih, for spirit is not bound by similar rules. As the corporeal body
groweth by aggregating to itself, so not so groweth the spirit of man, but by the opposite,
which is giving away.

9. Remember, O man, the more thou puttest forth thy soul to give light and wisdom to
others, the more thou receivest; wherein thou shalt comprehend in the reason of things
everlasting life to the spirit of man. So also, to him that desireth to comprehend Jehovih,
let him describe the All Highest constantly. To him that desireth to comprehend the
etherean worlds, the homes of spirits long risen in Nirvana, let him describe them. Fear
not, O man, that thou shalt err; all the imagery thou canst devise is surpassed millions of
times in the magnitude of the Father’s kingdoms. Till thou canst shoot an arrow without
striking the air, fear not for thy weak thoughts shooting amiss in Jehovih’s worlds.

Chapter 2

1. I, Apollo, earth-born, of the continent Pan, submerged by Aph, the Orian Chief, by
Jehovih’s command, proclaim in the name of the Father, Creator of worlds, peace and
wisdom unto all nations and tribes of men: First, against all vanity and self-conceit in the
souls of men, wherein every cycle asserteth itself wise and great and learned, and the
ancients, fools.

2. For the evidence of wisdom lieth not in learning one thing only, but in the adaptation of
man to Jehovih and His works. In which measure, the modern and the ancient stand not
upon their judgment in the matter, but by Jehovih’s.

3. For if the ancient was not perfect in his place, neither art thou, O man, of this day. But
before the Gods are all the ages adapted as Jehovih created them; judge not Him, for thy
judgment is limited. That which was profitable to the soul of man, the Father revealed to
the ancients; that which is profitable to the soul of man to-day, revealeth He this day.

4. For which reason I, His Son, am come to fulfill my labor, even as all men, in time,
must complete that which hath been assigned them.

5. To rebuke vanity and self-conceit in them that perceive not wisdom in things long past,
but applaud themselves without just measure before Jehovih. Wherein the Gods perceive
their vanity, and pity them, hoping rather to exalt their minds, that they may learn to
perceive the Father’s hand manifested in all things.

6. Turn thine eyes inward, O man, and look at the spirit of things; make thyself as a God
looking down on a new earth, where man hath been quickened into life and attained to
strength and learning. Behold his palaces and temples; his work in stone and iron, and
gold and silver; his knowledge of the sun and moon and stars; with written books to read;
with clothes for the body and shoes for the feet. With great generals, and armies of
soldiers; and with the land cultivated.

7. Are these civilized? And war abounding! By what right hast thou made thyself a judge,
O man! Who hath measured the inhabitants of the earth and found them pure and wise?
Do more people now live on the land in peace and happiness than in many of the cycles
past? Because thou art different in many excellencies, thou shalt also remember that many
great inventions are forgotten. The world hath been peopled over many times, and many
times laid desolate.

8. Who hath been the chief enemy to man? Who is his chief enemy to-day? Is it not
thyself? Think not, O man, that because a few people perceive the Higher Light the world
is wise and good before the Gods. For in all ages there have been a few. Yea, to-day,
there are a few more in number than in the ancient days. And this is the sum of the
enlightenment of the world.

9. Hear me, O man of earth, and ye angels of heaven: I proclaim harmony, symmetry and
music. I am of the days of the fountain of these talents descending to mortals. I was as a
shapely stone in Jehovih’s edifice, and by hard toil a fashioner of the flesh mold of man
and woman.

10. As the ear of one man heareth music, and he crieth out with delight: A tune! a tune!
And as the ear of another man heareth music, and he cannot discern, and he crieth out: A
noise! a hideous noise! Wherefore, then, shall ye not judge them, and say: The one hath
an ear for music, and the other not? The one is one with the music; the other, being
discordant himself, declareth there is no tune, but only noise. To which will ye give
preference in judgment as to music?

11. Who hath not beholden Jehovih, the All Person? Who is it that crieth out: I behold
Him not? No harmony, no symmetry, no music, no complete whole? And to which will
ye give preference in judgment? Is not the judgment of the perceiver higher than he who
perceiveth not?

12. This declare I of Jehovih, that in all ages there are many who perceive the All Person,
and many who deny Him. If, then, the lack of an ear for music maketh a man dumb to a
tune, is it not the lack of spiritual harmony that that causeth man to perceive not the
everlasting presence of Jehovih, the All Person?

13. Hear me, O angels and men: Can a man learn to sing who heareth not the harmony of
a tune? How much less, then, can man, or the spirits of the dead, harmonize with the
Eternal Whole if they perceive Him not?

Chapter 3

1. I, Apollo, Jehovih’s Son, proclaim an age when man on earth considered not harmony,
nor symmetry, nor music, as Gods!

2. And Jehovih’s voice came to me in the etherean firmament, and place of Pti’mus,
saying:

3. Apollo, My Son, thou God of Su’ad, God of Don’ga, God of Tah, behold the red star,
the earth, she cometh through thy dominions. Go thou to her with thy hosts, a sufficient
number, and give her a new God, and call his name Apollo.

4. Behold, neither men nor angels on the red star comprehend the harmony of My works;
and because of their own disharmony they deny Me, being blind to My Person. Go thou,
My Son, and make them idolaters of harmony, symmetry and music, for a long
season, that they may become organically attuned from the time of their birth upward.

5. I said: I perceive Thy wisdom, O Jehovih. And I called together a hundred millions of
Thy sons and daughters, and told them what Thou hadst said. With one accord, they said:
We have examined the red star since the time of Wan, and we perceive truly, the time
hath come for thy labor, O Apollo.

6. I said: Send an oniy’yah to the heaven of the earth and deliver her God and Lords and
all persons capable of the second resurrection. And say ye to God and his Lords: Thus
saith Apollo, Son of Jehovih, and God of three etherean worlds: Greeting in the name of
the Father, and love unto you all. For your glorious work I have assigned seven Teres and
Don’ga. Thither gather ye your hosts, where is prepared a place of rest and comfort. The
earth and her heaven shall be left in darkness for thirty of her days, having neither God
nor Lords.

7. So my legions departed for the earth in an etherean ship of fire, led by Tu’ain, Goddess
of Proe’king, a place of great learning in the etherean mountains of Horatanad; and they
delivered according to my decrees, and the earth was without a God and Lords for thirty
days.

8. And the voice of Jehovih came to me again, saying: Hear thy Creator, O My Son, thou
that sprangest from the land long since submerged, who has spanned many of My worlds,
behold, the legions of Sue and his mighty resurrections are still preserved to mortals and
angels earth-bound: Of the Gods and Goddesses who danced and sang before men; and of
the uneven match betwixt spirits and Gods.

9. Profiting in this, the people of the red star have become rich in rites and ceremonies,
and preferring the swift-footed to the slow, the nimble to the clumsy, the loo’is have well
laid out the road to thy success.

10. So, I perceived beforehand how I should proceed when I landed in the lower heaven
and her earth.

11. When the time came, I departed, still remembering my native star with well treasured
pride. And that all things should express the labor Jehovih put upon me, my oniy’yah
excelled in beauty all other etherean vessels that had ever descended to the earth.

12. How shall I comprehend Thy magnitude, O Jehovih? What is the journey of a God
before Thee? We build a ship for a hundred millions, and are vain of its size and
beauty; but when we launch out into Thy etherean realms, we fain would hide our faces
in shame of our vanity. We sail through a thousand of Thy crystal worlds and talk of
great distances, but the mirror of Thy boundless creation lieth still before us. We
recall the red star, our native home, a single gem amidst the countless millions Thou
hast cast into the universe, and we are speechless because of Thy Awful Extent.

13. Wherein hast Thou not excelled Thyself, O Jehovih! In one moment, we behold Thy
Vastness; in another, Thy Microscopic Hand in the smallest ethe’ic wave, and in the spear
of grass down on the swift corporeal stars. We applaud Thee for Thy handiwork, and yet
ere our thoughts have overrun the smallest part, Thou turnest our eyes inward to the soul
of things, an endless wonder.

14. How shall I comprehend Thy designs, O Jehovih? Thou drivest me back to the time
Thy angels came and stood man upright, saying: Be thou a man; and be thou a woman!
But they would not.

15. Again and again, Thy pitying hand stood them up, and Thy voice came, saying: Talk,
O man! Come, thou shalt help to perfect thyself. But man was slow in perceiving
wisdom; that which came to his flesh he loved.

16. I remember the earth, O Father! Men and women with long hair hanging down; and
hands with claw nails, fierce and war-like. And hair in tufts and short-curled. Whose eyes
were drawn down like a lion’s, and mouth wide and falling open, like a dog that is tired.

17. Therefore Thou hast called me, O Jehovih; and I perceive Thy double purpose: For a
man left alone would select and mate, and evolve to terrible war! And Thou storest here
an idol to unfit him for cruel deeds.

18. So, from Thy etherean realms, wherein for fifty thousand years Thy Gods and
Goddesses had trained me to comprehend the discipline of Thy created heavens, I came,
descending, down, down to the red star, where Thou first quickened me into being, that I
might fulfill Thy mandates.

19. Thy hand took me up, Thy hand sent me down; I had learned not to fear; the tree of
faith had grown in me; I knew the secret of All Power. As a mortal goeth into a dark
cavern, where the air is damp and unacceptable to the nose, so came my hosts, O Jehovih,
out of etherea into the vortex of the earth, the dull atmosphere.

20. Thy voice came to me, saying: Go around the earth with thy oniy’yah, My Son. Stir up
the atmosphereans; they that know no higher heaven. Behold, they have mutinied against
My God and Lords; have rejected My preferred wisdom. Their delight is in war and the
deeds of mortals. As men on earth gather round to witness beasts in battle, so gather these
countless millions of spirits to witness kingdoms of mortals in war, and fire, and plunder.
And by their presence urge men to cruelty and cunning horrors.