{"id":1180,"date":"2020-03-28T21:34:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T21:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2020-03-29T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T15:10:08","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-sunday-march-29th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/03\/28\/lectionary-readings-for-sunday-march-29th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Sunday, March 29th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holy Memorial Day<\/em><\/p>\n

Book of God’s Word Chapter 13, Chapter 14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 13<\/span><\/p>\n

1. When the time had come, on the morrow, the king said: I have not slept. All night I
\nwas as one burnt with a fever; for thy wondrous words and thy miracles have well nigh
\nturned my judgment upside down.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. I’hua’Mazda said: Because a man cannot understand a thing, shall he cry out, M<\/span>IRACLE<\/span>!
\nNow I declare I have done no miracle; nor hath Zarathustra. Yet to mortals these things
\nare miracles! If so, is not a man a miracle to himself? Is not procreation a miracle?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. This, then, I have found, O Asha, what man is not accustomed to, he calleth a miracle;
\nafter he hath seen a matter frequently, he calleth it natural law. What man hast thou found
\nthat comprehendeth the first cause of anything under the sun?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Why, then, shall man waste his time in unprofitable research? Is it not wiser that man
\nlabor to raise his fellow-men out of misery and darkness, than to gratify his own personal
\ndesire for great learning?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. The king said: Thou reasonest well. And yet, what learned good man hast thou found
\nwho will not say: Yea, to do good is a pretty philosophy! And there endeth his aspiration.
\nWhat, then, can I say, or what canst thou say, that they words will not be barren of fruit?<\/span><\/p>\n

6. I’hua’Mazda said: Thou art this day king of all the world; nor is there any other
\nkingdom but payeth thee tribute. Whatsoever thou desirest is as a law unto all other
\nkingdoms. For that reason am I come unto thee. Yea, thou wert born to this end. Hear,
\nthen, the voice of thy God, and thou shalt do that which is good for thy soul and good for
\nall other people.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Asha said: Almost am I tempted to accede to thy wishes ere thou hast revealed; but yet
\nhear thou the voice of thy king; what matters it to me about the good of other people?
\nEven if it be proven that great men have souls that live after death, it is not yet proven
\nthat the druks have souls also. If they have souls, then heaven must be a stupid place
\nindeed. For thou hast not shown me that man obtaineth wisdom by dying, nor is it
\nreasonable that he should do so. Rather tell me, O Zarathustra, how I may get rid of the
\nworld; for of what use is life at most?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. I’hua’Mazda said: Because thou rejoicest not in thy life, thou perceivest that thy
\nphilosophy is deficient, and not that the world is. For I will yet prove to thee that thou art
\noverflowing with happiness. To believe the things I reveal and have faith therein, is
\nto become happy. Then the king answered him, saying: To believe, there is the matter.
\nI declare unto thee, there is not a grain of belief in my heart. How, then, can it grow?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. I’hua’Mazda said: He who can say, I can think of an All Highest, hath the seed of
\neverlasting life in him. He who liveth the all highest he can; he who thinketh of the All
\nHighest; he who talketh to the All Highest; he who trieth to perceive from the standpoint
\nof the All Highest, quickly transcendeth belief and becometh a very God in faith. He
\nbecometh master of himself, and feedeth himself with happiness, even as men feed
\nthemselves with bread.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Asha said: What wouldst thou have me do? To which I’hua’Mazda said: With the
\npeople thou hast greater authority than a God, greater than miracles. Thy decrees are all
\npowerful. Thou shalt have a copy of this book written on stone and cloth, one copy for
\nevery sub-kingdom in thy dominions. And thou shalt send it to them with a sword and a<\/span>
\nserpent, saying to them: Receive ye this book, for it is a Holy Book, the A<\/span>LL <\/span>H<\/span>IGHEST <\/span>L<\/span>AW<\/span>!
\nthe I’hua’Mazdian law, the Zarathustrian law, the Ormazdian law. And it shall be a rule
\nand guide unto you and your kingdom forever. And every king in the <\/span>KINGDOM OF THE SUN
\n<\/span>shall serve one year in living with the poor, carrying the alms-bowl for sacrifices unto
\nOrmazd.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. And when thou hast sent this decree forth into all the world, thou shalt thyself give up
\nthy kingdom; and thou shalt give to the poor all thy gold and silver and cases, and all thy
\ntreasures whatsoever, having nothing left unto thyself but the clothes that cover thee. And
\nthou shalt go and live with the poor, carrying the alms-bowl thyself in the streets of Oas.
\nAnd of the food thou gatherest in the bowl, thou shalt give the choicest parts to the poor,
\nsaying: T<\/span>HIS IS THE SACRIFICE OF THE MANY GIVEN UNTO THEE; EAT YE OF IT, FOR IT IS THE VERY
\nBODY AND BLOOD OF <\/span>O<\/span>RMAZD, OUR <\/span>F<\/span>ATHER IN HEAVEN<\/span>! But the poorest of all that is in the
\nbowl shall be thy portion.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. At the end of one year, thou shalt go about preaching the Ormazdian law,
\ncommanding the cessation of war and the abandonment of evil, and the acceptance of
\nrighteousness.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. The king said: What canst thou promise me if I do all these things? Then I’hua’Mazda
\nsuffered Zarathustra to answer him: He said, N<\/span>OTHING<\/span>! Did the Creator ask this, before
\nHe made the world? If thou desirest to approach thy Creator, do thou like unto Him.
\nNor is it my place, nor the angels’place, nor the place of God, to promise thee anything.
\nThou art not my servant; and thou shalt serve only the Master, All Light (Jehovih).
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. And as I have taught thee, so shalt thou go and teach others, explaining the
\nOrmazdian law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Asha said: Do the Gods in heaven give rewards for good works and sacrifices done
\non earth? Zarathustra said: He that doeth good works and maketh sacrifices unto
\nOrmazd hath his reward. For it is by this means that the soul of man becometh strong,
\nand especially strong for the first and second resurrections in the next world.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Asha said: To be with thee, O Zarathustra, and feast on the wisdom of thy words, I
\nwould make any sacrifice. Wilt thou go with me amongst the poor?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. I’hua’Mazda said: Nay, thou shalt go alone. And for company thou shalt pray to thy
\nCreator, and make songs of praise unto Him, nor think no more of thyself than as if thou
\nwert dead.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. The king said: It is said of mad-men that they think they are not mad. How, then, am I
\nto know but I am mad? Will not the world so adjudge me if I obey thy commandments?
\nAnd cannot the world judge me better than I can judge myself? It was said of the ancients
\nthat Sughdha obsessed old men and weak-hearted women; and it was for that reason
\nOsiris came and slew him. If there be Gods in heaven, as thou sayest, mayst not thou have
\ncome to slay Osiris.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. I’hua’Mazda said: Thou art a great multiplier of arguments; but in all thy speech I have
\nseen nothing that planned the resurrection of men from darkness into light. And is not this
\nthe All Highest that man should aim at?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. Asha said: I am done. Thy judgment is greater than mine. All thou hast commanded
\nof me I will do. From this time forth I will serve only Ormazd, the Creator. Thy God, O
\nZarathustra, shall be my God. Thy ways shall be my ways. Henceforth I will argue forever
\non the side of the Creator. And touching all matters, I will first ask myself what I shall say<\/span>
\nthat would be like thy God would say it; and what I shall do that will fulfill the
\nOrmazdian law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 14<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Asha, K<\/span>ING OF <\/span>O<\/span>AS<\/span>, the City of the Sun, K<\/span>ING OF THE <\/span>S<\/span>UN, <\/span>ruler over the whole corporeal
\nworld, owner and possessor of all mortals, men, women and children, <\/span>COMMANDER OF ALL
\nFLESH, <\/span>descended from the S<\/span>UN <\/span>G<\/span>ODS <\/span>thousands of years, and whose forefathers were the
\nfathers of all living creatures, H<\/span>IGHEST OF MEN<\/span>, and by whose good grace the inhabitants of
\nthe earth are permitted to live, and whose decrees are the standard of all things, M<\/span>AKER OF
\n<\/span>J<\/span>USTICE AND <\/span>M<\/span>AKER OF <\/span>T<\/span>RUTH<\/span>, and whom none dare question, and on whose word the sun
\nand moon and stars bow down, greeting:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. To the kings and queens of the east and west and north and south, over all the cities in
\nthe world, rulers in the temples of the stars (observatories), slayers of dragons, and slayers
\nof lions, and slayers of tigers, and of men and of women and of children and serpents,
\nhonored in the golgothas, and by millions of cowering slaves, owners of thousands of
\nwives, and whose boats sail in lakes of mortal blood, and whose crowns are honored by
\nten thousand men slain every year, sworn on the flesh of the thigh, whose words are life
\nand death; and most obedient to the S<\/span>UN <\/span>K<\/span>ING, <\/span>I command:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. First, that there is an Ormazd, Creator, Person! Whose Soul is in all the world, and in
\nall things in the firmament above; Who is Father; Who is the Light of light, Creator of
\ndarkness and men, Who is forever The Going Forth; Who is Cause of causes; larger than
\nall things seen and unseen; the Power of all power.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Second, I’hua’Mazda, His Only Begotten Son, born of the Virgin Mi (the Substance
\nSeen). Pure and All Holy; Master of Men; Person of Word; Essence of Ormazd revealed
\nin Word; S<\/span>AVIOR OF MEN<\/span>; <\/span>Holder of the keys of heaven; through W<\/span>HOSE <\/span>G<\/span>OOD <\/span>G<\/span>RACE ONLY
\n<\/span>the souls of men can rise to Nirvana, the H<\/span>IGH <\/span>H<\/span>EAVEN<\/span>:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Third, Zarathustra, A man, All Pure, conceived by a Virgin, and born wise, being one
\nwith I’hua’Mazda, who is one with Ormazd. Of Whom the word saith: Doeth He without
\nmiracle. T<\/span>HE RAISING OF THE DEAD; HEALING THE SICK BY LAYING ON OF HANDS; WHOS WORD OF
\nCOMMAND BRINGETH FORTH RIPE WHEAT, FULL GROWN, IN A DAY; <\/span>and doing all things that the
\nancients accredited to the Gods as miracles, but which the Ormazdian law showeth to be
\nN<\/span>ATURAL <\/span>L<\/span>AW TO ANY ONE WHO IS <\/span>A<\/span>LL <\/span>P<\/span>URE<\/span>, and who draweth power from Ormazd, the
\nCreator, and His holy angels.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Fourth, A Book, holy and sacred, revealed by I’hua’Mazda to Zarathustra, the All Pure;
\nand written on stone and cloth, revealing All Wisdom, which is styled, the Ormazdian
\nlaw, the I’hua’Mazdian law, the Zarathustrian law, which is the All Highest Law in All the
\nworld, approved by A<\/span>SHA<\/span>, I, <\/span>THE KING OF KINGS<\/span>!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Fifth, by ten thousand learned scribes in my command, written a copy of The Holy
\nBook, and herewith sent with commands by the K<\/span>ING OF THE <\/span>S<\/span>UN<\/span>! That this book shall be
\nthe All Highest law in all my sub-kingdoms, and that all my kings shall believe it and
\ncommand the same of their slaves. Nor shall any man stand up against this, my decree,
\nand live; nor shall any man alter one word or sign in this Holy Book; nor disbelieve one
\nword it containeth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. And my kings and sub-kings; and my queens and sub-queens, shall obey all the<\/span>
\ncommandments, even as I obey them; nor shall any man, or woman, or child, question
\nthese things, as to whether they be the All Highest, or whether there be error in
\nwhatsoever cometh from my hand; for by my decree they are made All Truth!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. For I was raised up to the High Estate by Ormazd, for this purpose; and not one in the
\nwhole world hath power like unto me.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. And ye, to whom these holy words come, shall make oath on a serpent and a sword to
\nobey these, my commandments, now and forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Thus did Asha send officers to carry the books he had made to the kings and queens
\nin the east and west and north and south; and they that he sent were men of great learning,
\nand of the highest caste; and they took with them serpents and swords, and gave them as
\ncommanded, exacting an oath from all who received them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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