{"id":1108,"date":"2020-03-04T00:25:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T00:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2020-03-04T00:25:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T00:25:01","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-march-4th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/03\/04\/lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-march-4th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Wednesday, March 4th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weekday Sabbath<\/em><\/p>\n

Book of Fragapatti Chapter 5, Chapter 6<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 5<\/span><\/p>\n

1. When Fragapatti had selected both departments of his Council, which comprised one
\nhundred thousand souls, he said:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. When a God espouseth a new kingdom, it is customary for him to create his own
\ncapital, and affix the boundaries of his lights and hall of audience; but when he hath Gods
\nand Goddesses for his assistants, it is meet and proper for them to help in the buildings. In
\nthis case, I give into your hands to provide this realm.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Hardly had his words gone forth when the Gods and Goddesses stretched forth
\ntheir hands unto Jehovih, and, lo and behold, the elements of the plateau took shape,
\nand there stood the canopy of a new kingdom; then again they stretched forth their
\nhands to Jehovih, and there came the walls of the house of heaven; and yet again
\nthey stretched forth their hands to Jehovih, and there came the floor and foundation.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. And the house was called the House of Mouru, the place of the throne of Fragapatti, in
\nthe lower heavens. On the plains beyond the house, Fragapatti created a thousand fields
\nand pastures; and in each and every one he created ten thousand mansions, and every
\nmansion was capable of one thousand souls. With roadways from one to another
\nFragapatti created them, his hosts being the workmen, in the wisdom and power of
\nJehovih.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Whilst this work was going on, the marshals who went down to the earth returned,
\nbringing God and his Lords with them, and also bringing with them twelve hundred
\nthousand spirits of the second resurrection. Fragapatti commanded them to bring God and
\nhis Lords into the House of Mouru, and they were so brought.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Fragapatti said: In the name of Jehovih, I salute thee, O God, and thy Lords, and thy
\nhosts.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. God said: In Thy name, O Jehovih, am I, and my Lords, and my hosts, blessed with
\ngreat joy. That thou, O Fragapatti, hast come to redeem the earth-born and the spirits of
\nthese heavens, is a joyful period in the time of worlds.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. The Lords said: For ourselves and our hosts, O Jehovih, do we thank Thy Son,
\nFragapatti.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Fragapatti said: That thou, O God, mightst know my decrees, I commanded thee and
\nthy Lords, and thy exalted hosts, hither. Hear me, then, and to whom I send thee, do thou
\nmy commandments, in the name of Jehovih: The time hath come when mortals on the
\nearth shall begin their lessons in spiritual things proven, being themselves made part in
\nthe building of Jehovih’s kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Through thee, the present reigning God of the earth and her heavens, must be carried
\nout the death and resurrection of thy chosen heir, Zarathustra; to prove, first, that man on
\nthe corporeal earth can live All Pure and without sin; second, that corporeal death
\nbelongeth to the earth-body of man, and not to the spirit; and, third, that after death, the
\nsame person can rise in spirit and appear to mortals, to be seen and known; after
\nwhich, he shall show his final ascent toward the upper heavens, in the arms of his God.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Whilst this cometh upon thee in person to carry out, thou shalt also, through thy
\nministering angels, prove to mortals the advantage of virtue and truth over sin and
\ndarkness. For thou shalt cause also to be stricken in death two evil men who are all
\nimpure; and they shall suffer death at the same time with thy heir, Zarathustra; but these<\/span>
\nshall not appear before mortals after death. For mortals shall hereafter be a testimony to
\none another of the reward of virtue, and the power of being one with the Gods, Sons of
\nJehovih.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. But since all attestation by spirits can be set at defiance by the craft of philosophers,
\nthou shalt not wait till after the death of thy heir, to teach the truths of the Father’s
\nkingdoms; but beforehand. Causing Zarathustra, whilst yet mortal, to write down rules of
\nmortal life, and doctrines, and faith, and repentance, and praise of the Great Spirit; and of
\nprophecy, and all manner of righteous gifts, and the power of miracles, and the triumph of
\nthe spirit of man over corporeal elements.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. And when thou hast completed these things, thou shalt bring the spirit of Zarathustra
\nto this House; but the druks who suffer death with him, thou shalt deliver in the usual way
\nto the places prepared for their resurrection.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Tell me, then, how standeth thy heir; and ask thou of me whatsoever thou wilt,
\nto assist thee, to carry out these, my decrees, and it shall be granted unto thee.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. God said: Zarathustra hath attained his twentieth year, and comprehendeth the destiny
\nput upon him. He is pure and wise, with faith and gentleness; but he is larger and more
\npowerful than any other man in the world. He is instructed, both in the spiritual and
\ncorporeal senses, having a knowledge of the books of the ancients, and of writing and
\nmaking tablets.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Fragapatti said: Five years shalt thou have in which to complete thy labor. Depart,
\ntherefore, to thy place, taking with thee such of thy Lords and hosts as thou mayst require.
\nI will appoint a thousand messengers to travel betwixt thy place and this, that every
\nday thou shalt ask for this or that, it shall be granted unto thee. To which God replied:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. I will go now and cause Zarathustra to write a book of wisdom, and give him
\nprophecy over the kings and nations and tribes of men. What I do shall be proven to thee
\nin Mouru. Thus saying, God withdrew a little, and selected his Lords and such other
\nassistants as he desired; and, after this, Fragapatti granted a day of recreation, in which
\ntime the ethereans were made well acquainted with the conditions of mortals and of the
\nthousands of millions of spirits still lingering in the first resurrection, and in darkness and
\nchaos.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. On the next day God and his hosts departed for the earth, well attended by thousands
\nof volunteers from the etherean sojourners of Haraiti.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 6<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Fragapatti said: The voice of Jehovih cometh to me, saying: My Son, appoint thou an
\nassistant chief to sit on thy throne, and go thou around about atmospherea, taking
\nsurveyors and inspectors with thee; for thou shalt see with thine own eyes the condition of
\nthousands of millions of spirits in hada.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Fragapatti said: In Jehovih’s name, I announce Athrava my assistant, God of Mouru.
\nThere was great rejoicing in the Council at this. Then came Athrava forward, and
\nascended Jehovih’s throne and sat on the right hand of Fragapatti. Etherean lights fell
\nupon the place from every side, and Fragapatti gathered from the elements and made a
\ncrown for Athrava, and crowned him.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Officers and workmen were sent to build a conveyance for Fragapatti, and for such<\/span>
\nattendants as he might take with him. So, the next day, Fragapatti chose his companions,
\nthirty thousand, making Verethragna speaker, and he and they departed for their
\ninspection of hada and the earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. His ship was built without lights or curtains, so they might travel unobserved. First he
\ninspected the plateau of Haraiti, which, prior to this, had never been inhabited; and he
\nfound its distance from the earth was equal to ten diameters of the earth; and its east and
\nwest and north and south diameters corresponded in size to what the earth would be were
\nit that volume; that is to say, the superfice of the plateau was five hundred and twentyeight thousand miles in every direction. And in the ratio of the number of mortals on the earth, this plateau would inhabit five hundred and twenty-eight thousand million souls.
\nAnd yet this was not the thousandth part of the number it could sustain, in fact, within
\nand without.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Fragapatti said: Such is Haraiti, O Jehovih. And yet there have been, till now, no spirits
\nto come and inhabit it! Who can survey Thy works, O Father! Who shall fear for the limit
\nof Thy handiwork!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Verethragna said: And yet we shall find in the lowest hadas spirits huddled together
\nlike bees in a hive. And yet wherefore, O Chief, for is it not so with mortals also? They
\ncluster together in cities and tribes, warring for inches of ground, whilst vast divisions of
\nthe earth lie waste and vacant!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Fragapatti said: Is this not the sum of the darkness of mortals and of spirits in the
\nlowest realms—. They know not how to live? A spider or an ant is more one with the
\nCreator than these!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Next they visited Zeredho, six diameters of the earth distant. Here they found a
\ncolony of two thousand million spirits, that had been founded by Osire three
\nthousand three hundred years before. But not the same people, but such as came up from
\nthe earth afterward. They had a God named Hoab, an atmospherean from the earth,
\ntwo thousand one hundred years. And he was upright and wise, and of good works
\nmost excellent; but knowing nothing of etherea, had no ambition to rise thither.
\nAnd his content had visited itself on the colony, and they were contented also.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Fragapatti said: To remain here forever, is this the extent of thy desires, O Hoab?
\nAnd Hoab answered him, saying: Yea, Master. What more is life than to reach the
\nhighest place and remain there? To which Fragapatti said: Is this the all highest?
\nAnd Hoab said: Yea, Master. Any place and condition is the all highest, if man make
\nit so. None can attain higher than I; no people higher than my people. We are freed
\nfrom the earth and hada; and we desire not to return thither, nor to go to any other place.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Fragapatti said: Let us walk a little, that I may see thy kingdom. Hoab consented, and
\nthey walked along, seeing the inhabitants lying at ease, some amusing themselves
\nweaving threads of light, then unraveling them and weaving them over again;
\nothers playing with crystals and lenses and opaque and transparent elements, but
\nnot doing anything for another; nor, in fact, needed they, for all were capable of
\ndoing for themselves. Now, after they had traveled a while, Fragapatti said: Hast thou
\nnot, O Hoab, a desire to return to the plateaux below thee, where the inhabitants are
\nin misery and darkness, and bring them into thine own realm? To which Hoab said:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Nay, Master. Let them shift for themselves. Even if we helped them up they would
\nbe thankless. Nay, my doctrine is: Man is the all highest of all things. The elements are<\/span>
\ndumb; the worlds are many and wide. Let man choose a corner for himself, and there
\nsettle forever. Fragapatti asked: Because a man chooseth a corner, is it necessarily his
\nown? Hoab said: Our place was bequeathed us by our forefathers; of course it is ours,
\nand to remain so forever. Neither suffer we any other spirits to settle in our
\ndominions. Being far away from the rest of the world, we are not much molested.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Fragapatti said: How came ye hither? Hoab said: Long ago there came a God hither,
\nnamed Osire, bringing six thousand million drujas up from the earth. With them he
\nfounded a colony here; with factories, colleges, hospitals, and all things necessary to
\nenlighten the people, giving them ample teachers. In course of time, many of the
\ninhabitants migrated away from this place, and it was almost depleted of its people. But
\nthe Gods below this sent new supplies of inhabitants, of which we are the second and
\nthird installments; so we inherited the place with all its factories and educationals, and
\nother places.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Fragapatti said: As ye were raised up by the Gods of other places, would it not give ye
\njoy to raise up others, who are still in darkness? Hoab said: Nay, Master. We are pure and
\nrefined; the atmosphere of drujas is unpleasant to us. They would vitiate our own
\nhappiness, besides entailing toil and responsibilities upon us. We cannot mix with any
\npeople but the refined and holy. We take care of ourselves; let others do the same, and all
\nwill be well.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Fragapatti said: Who thinkest thou I am, and my people with me? Hoab said: Visitors
\nfrom some far-off realm, who are either discordant with yourselves, or bent to meddle in
\nthe affairs of other peoples. We have had visitors before, and we never grieved when they
\nleft us. To which Fragapatti replied:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Thou art strong in thy philosophy. Had no nation or people such ambition as this,
\nthere would be no content in the world. To be satisfied with one’s own self and behavior
\nis to be a God in fact. Hadst thou nothing to fear from immigration coming to thy shore,
\nor to fear from some new philosophy undermining thy long-established convictions,
\nthou mightst indeed be the happiest of Gods, and thy people the happiest of people.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Hoab said: True! Thou perceivest wisely. O that there was nothing to fear; nothing to
\ndread, forever!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Then Fragapatti said: And I declare unto thee, Hoab, that that condition can be
\nattained. For I have seen kingdoms in heaven so fortified. And wert thou and thy people
\nprepared to receive the sacred secrets pertaining thereto, I would most willingly
\nunfold them before thee. Hoab said: Thou art a wise God; tarry thou and teach us.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. Fragapatti said: I am now on a journey, and cannot remain longer; but, on one
\ncondition, I will return hither and disclose these matters, so that never more shalt thou
\nfear for immigration into thy country, nor for any philosophy which any man or God
\nmay teach: Exact a promise of secrecy from all thy people. Hoab said: It shall be done.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. And Fragapatti and his hosts withdrew, and departed out of that plateau, promising to
\nreturn when notification had been served on his people. But Fragapatti inspected the
\nwhole superfice, and found it capable of educating and providing for ten hundred
\nthousand million spirits; whereas, there were but two thousand millions in Hoab’s
\nkingdom; and they inhabited only a small corner of the plateau; nevertheless, Hoab laid
\nclaim to the whole.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. After this, Fragapatti descended to the next plateau, the first grade plateau above the<\/span>
\nearth, called Aoasu, signifying, land and sky world, for the first spirit life after mortal
\ndeath. Aoasu hath its foundation on the earth, and it undulateth with mountains and
\nvalleys, like the earth, having seas over the corporeal seas. And the outer superfice of
\nAoasu is from twenty to a hundred miles above the earth’s surface; and it is habitable
\nwithin and without, after the manner of all spirit worlds. But the first resurrections were
\nwithin it and on the earth surface; and the second resurrections, mostly, on its superfice;
\nthough all atmospherean plateaux are also made for the second and third resurrections.
\nOn the roadway betwixt Aoasu and Zeredho, next ascending, it was that Osire established
\nVibhraj, which was now so depleted of its people that Fragapatti halted not to examine it,
\nbut proceeded to Aoasu direct.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. Here lie the mountains of Morn and Eve, and mountains of the Moon and Sun and
\nStars; chief of which groups are:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. Ushidaho, Ushidarena, Erezifya, Fraorepa, Ezora, Arezura, Tudae, Bumya, Doitya,
\nRaoidhita, Mazassavao, Autare, a place of light, inhabited by Hura, Lord of Vouta;
\nEreasho, Vata-gaiko, a place of Uz, signifying torments, because of its darkness.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. This group of mountains is ninety miles higher than the earth mountains of Jaffeth.
\nSouth of these are Adarana, Aayana, Isakata, Somya, Kanaka-tafedrhao, Vahra, and the
\ndouble mountain, Hamanakanna; eight ranges of the round mountains, Fravanku; the four
\npeaks, the Vidwaana.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. These extend over the earth mountains of Shem, and have an altitude above the earth
\nof one hundred miles. These are the oldest inhabited spirit worlds, since the submersion
\nof Pan, whose spirit worlds were carried up to a higher heaven, which hath since been
\ncalled Haraiti.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

25. Extending east and west lie the group called the Red Men’s group: Aezaka, Maenaka,
\nVakhedrakae, Akaia, Tudhakkae, Ishvakhaya, Draoshisvao, Cairivao, Nanhusmao,
\nKahayuyu, Autarekanhae, Karayaia, which were the first places in heaven for colonizing
\nthe spirits of the I’huan race.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

26. The next group lieth to the west and south, which are: Gichindava, I’huana-Varya,
\nRaegamna, Akaya, Asha-cteambana, Urinyovadidhkae, Asnahovao, Ushaoma,
\nUtsagaerenao, Cyamakhama, Cyamaka, Vafrayaotso, Vafrayao, Vourrusha, and
\nUasoakhao.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

27. To the south of this group are the Towering Eagles, which are: Ijatarra, Adhutuvavata,
\nCeptimavarenao, Cpentodata, Asnavoaya, Kairogakhaivacao, Tauraiosa, Baroyo,
\nBarocrayama, Fraayapoa, Udrya, Usayaokhava, Raevao. All of which groups were named
\nby the Gods and Lords of the intermediate worlds during the time of the Yi-ha language
\namongst mortals, being named after the amalgamation of the tribes of I’hins, every
\nsyllable, in former ages, being one tribe, whereof the Gods have made this testimony to
\nendure from before the time of Fragapatti and Zarathustra, wherein it may be proven to
\nmortals and spirits that this division of the spirit world was revealed to man at the time
\nlanguage was carried to its highest compounding.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

28. Besides these mountains in the lowest heavens, there were four thousand others, the
\nnames of which were duly registered in the libraries of heaven, by Thor and his sub-Gods;
\nbut more than two thousand of them were uninhabited, owing to the fact, that Jehovih had
\nnot as yet created a sufficient number of people for them. But the mountains here
\nmentioned above were those, chiefly, where, at the time after Apollo, the false Gods and<\/span>
\nfalse Lords sat up kingdoms of their own; and the names of the mountains are also the
\nnames they espoused unto themselves.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

29. Fragapatti said: Alas, these heavens! Who can measure the vanity of men and angels,
\nthat cut loose from the Great Spirit, endeavoring to set up kingdoms on their own
\naccount! Their places perish; sorrowful histories! Behold these vagrant spirits, strolling
\nabout, or hiding amidst the ruins! Ashamed of their rags, and nakedness! Prowling
\naround; millions of them; hundreds of millions!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

30. Verethragna said: I thank Thee, O Jehovih, that I am once again amongst the
\nlowest! Keep me, O Father, amidst this darkness, till I shall never again forget the
\nlowest of my brothers and sisters. I behold Thy Wisdom, O Jehovih! But for these cycles
\nof time, in the dawns of which Thy ethereans can come down to witness the bounden
\nin hell, they would themselves forget the horrors. O that Thou wilt not suffer me to
\nrest till I have helped to raise them up to know Thee, and to be a glory within Thy works! <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"
\n<\/span>Plate 10<\/p>\n

ETHEREA<\/p>\n

E, E, E, Etherea. All that lieth between the dotted line and the earth is atmospherea. H, Haraiti,
\nhighest lower heaven, founded by Fragapatti. F, Zeredho, second highest lower heaven
\nfounded by Fragapatti. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, third lowest heavens founded by Fragapatti. These
\nseven were called the Seven Heavenly Mountains, and known by the name Aoasu. (See Vedas.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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