{"id":1063,"date":"2020-02-23T23:14:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T23:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2020-02-24T20:44:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:44:53","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-monday-february-24th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/02\/23\/lectionary-readings-for-monday-february-24th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Monday, February 24th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book of Osiris Chapter 7, Chapter 8<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 7<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Who shall tell the story of the Gods of heaven! Their mighty kingdoms, overspreading
\nthe whole earth! Hundreds and hundreds, and thousands! Their libraries of records of
\nvalorous and holy deeds! A council chamber of half a million souls! Hundreds of
\ndepartments; thousands! Here a board to select young students to the colleges of
\nmessengers. Another board to select students to the colleges of arts. Another to select
\nstudents to mathematics. Another for prophecy. Another for great learning. Another for
\nfactories. Another for compounding and dissolving elements. Then come the departments
\nof the cosmogony of the stars; then, of the ethereal worlds; then, the roadways of the
\nfirmament; then, a’ji and ji’ya, and nebulae; then, se’mu; then hi’dan and dan; then, the
\ndawn of dan; then, histories of the heavens far and near; then, genealogy of thousands of
\nOrian Chiefs; the creation of mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms. Yea, but to
\nenumerate the half of what cometh before a God and his council would itself fill a book.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Who, then, O Jehovih, shall venture to tell the labor and wisdom of Thy etherean
\nGods! How shall the second resurrection give up its mysteries? Shall Thy recorder follow
\nthe young student for messenger, and disclose the training put upon him? How, like a
\ncarrier dove, he is taught to go from place to place, but holding the message in his head?
\nThen follow the student in another department, and make a record of how he is taught?
\nAnd of the multitude of questions that come before the Council from far-off places. Then
\nthe rites and ceremonies, and the unending variety and magnificence of the music. Can a
\nman describe a million men and women and children? A hundred millions! A thousand
\nmillions! Five thousand millions! Who hath seen so great a man, to do this! And yet this
\nis but Thy lower heaven, O Jehovih!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. A strange voice riseth up from the earth, saying: Have they anything to do in heaven?
\nO ye Gods! And one half of the earth-born coming hither in infancy! And the countless
\nmillions who know little more than the beasts of the field! To be falsely taught that these
\nunfortunates would skip off to paradise and possess great learning in the hour of death!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. O that their understanding could be opened up to Thy kingdoms, Thou All-Extending
\nCreator! That their eyes could look upon the greatness of even Thy lower heaven! To
\nbehold a thousand departments reaching as wide as the earth! And then the hundreds of
\nthousands of branch departments, of hundreds of grades, adapted to every soul that riseth
\nup from the earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. O that they could look into the dark places in atmospherea! That they could see a
\nmillion souls, plunged in chaos by terrible war! Crazed spirits, wild and battling! Not
\nknowing they are dead! The ceaseless toil of a million nurses and physicians, laboring day
\nand night with them! O the darkness upon them! O the glory of Thy exalted ones! Who is
\nthere, having seen the magnificence of Thy glories, will not bestir himself every moment
\nto lift up his brother and point the way to Thy throne?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. O that they could see Thy swift Gods of dawn! How they hear a hundred tongues at one
\ntime, and frame answers for all of them, and, by a motion of the hand, dispatch<\/span>
\nmessengers to fulfill the same in words! How they select officers, to know a hundred at a
\nglance, and know where to place them; that every one shall fit his place! Who is there, O
\nFather, can frame into words the proceedings of heaven, so that mortals can comprehend
\neven a fraction of Thy great glories!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Shall a man light a candle and say it representeth the sun? How, then, shall they find
\nthe affairs of mortals comparable to Thy kingdoms? O, that they knew the meaning of the
\ndifference betwixt All Light and the darkness of man’s judgment.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. O that they knew Thee, Thou Central Sun of All Light! They have put away Thy
\nPerson, and they go in any direction. Thy Great Gods are but myths to them, because of
\nthe darkness of their souls. Behold, they look for a small man with a large sword! The
\npower of great wisdom they know not.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. That they could behold the coming and going of thousands of messengers, from far-off
\nkingdoms, before the throne of Thy God! How he hath answered their matters suddenly!
\nAnd the while heeded the voices of a thousand marshals! O that man knew the glory of
\nOrder! The power of Harmony!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. They have seen a clock with a hundred wheels, and the eye of its maker overseeing its
\nevery part in motion, and they call it wonderful! But how can they know Thy Councils, O
\nJehovih? Thy millions? And Thy God on his throne, mantled in Thy Light, overseeing a
\nwhole heaven! What majesty of words can make mortals comprehend His wisdom, and
\npower, and great labors!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 8<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Thus Osire established Vibhraj, the resplendent heaven, with a thousand and eight
\nhundred sub-kingdoms, in atmospherea, all under the commandments of the central
\nkingdom. And then he established the roadways between them, and appointed seven
\nhundred thousand messengers. After that he ordained proper officers for intercommunion; and the several sub-kingdoms established their places of learning and places of labor; their hospitals and nurseries, and their innumerable asaphs, the receivers of
\nes’yans, the newborn spirits of the dead of earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Osire said: Behold, there is order in heaven. Now will I appoint a God to hold
\ndominion two hundred years. For whilst the dawn of dan yet remaineth, I will assist him.
\nLet the examiners search, then, amongst my hosts, from such as sprang from the earth,
\nsuch one as standeth clear on the record, and chief in rank.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. So the examiners searched; and after thirty days, they selected Konas; and when Osire
\nwas informed, he sent a thousand of his own attendants, in an otevan, and they brought
\nKonas to Vibhraj, to Jehovih’s throne. Osire said:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Greeting, in the name of the Father! Thou art chosen above all others; and, after the
\ndawn of dan is ended, thou shalt be God of heaven and earth for two hundred years.
\nBefore the ascent of my hosts and of myself, behold, I will crown thee. Till then, thou
\nshalt sit on my throne, and fill my place whilst I am absent.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. I have now restored order in heaven, having given all the inhabitants a single purpose
\nin concert, whereby their resurrection is surely founded. Now will I go down to the false
\nLords’ kingdoms, on the earth, and to the mortal kings and queens, and restore order there
\nalso.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Konas said: Thy will and Jehovih’s be done! I am exalted and rejoiced in what is<\/span>
\nbestowed upon me. Make me strong and wise, O Jehovih, that I may glorify Thy
\nkingdoms!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. So, after due preparation, Osire departed privately, taking with him one hundred
\nthousand attendants, going down to the earth and to the false Lords’ kingdoms, in the
\ncities and temples of mortals.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Seven days Osire spent traveling round about the earth, visiting angels and mortals, but
\ntelling none who he was, or what was his object; and then he halted his otevan, which had
\nbeen built for the purpose, in the regions of the mountains of We-ont-ka-woh, in Western
\nJaffeth. He said:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. We-ont-ka-woh shall be my headquarters for a season. Here, then, will I found the first
\nLord’s kingdom for mortals; and inasmuch as mortals have made an idol of Apollo, so
\nwill I cast down Apollo, and make them know that I, Osire, am Lord of the earth. Then
\nspake We’taing, saying:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Behold the glory of Jehovih from the first! In our journey around the earth, we have
\nfound the I’hins not idolaters, but still worshippers of the Great Spirit, Jehovih. But as to
\nthe half-breeds, who can understand them? They believe nothing; they believe everything.
\nThey ask the idol for rain, and for dry weather! For strength to slay the druks; for flesh to
\neat, and for famine to be visited on their enemies.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. They are as living prey for druj to feast on; they invite the darkest of all evil. And to
\ndo their wills in return, the druj, the evil spirits, busy themselves inoculating the air with
\npoison to kill their enemies.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Osire said: With the I’hins we have little to do; but as to the Ghans and the I’huans,
\nthey shall be converted into disbelievers of all spirits, save two, Jehovih and satan.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. To accomplish which end, I will give them three figures: The signs of seasons, which
\nshall represent the Creator in all the parts of the living; the sign of the sun, with motion
\nand all life coming forth; and the hand of man.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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