{"id":1215,"date":"2020-04-09T23:18:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T23:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2020-04-09T23:18:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T23:18:44","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-friday-april-10th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/04\/09\/lectionary-readings-for-friday-april-10th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Friday, April 10th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

1. In the sixth Diva, Div decreed: The Divan law shall be the higher law; and ye shall give
\nto mortals a law copied after it, and the mortal law shall be called the lower law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. One of the members of Diva said: If a mortal judge, being in judgment between certain
\nmen, by which law shall he judge? On this matter the members spake at great length.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Div then decreed: He cannot discern the higher law but dimly; the lower law he can
\nread plainly in a book. He shall therefore judge by the lower, but by the highest
\ninterpretation. And then Div on his own account said:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. For the priests of the Zarathustrians, who have carried the alms-bowl and lived in all
\nthings pure, being celibates, serving the Creator, Ormazd, only, going about doing good,
\nthey have the higher law, the Divan law, within their hearts; they shall judge by it.
\nNevertheless trouble cometh not into any of the worlds by those who strive to do aright,
\nbut by those who evade. The time shall come when the judge shall not interpret according
\nto the higher law; he will strive to hide justice in a corner, using words to conceal his own
\nperversity. It is by such men and such angels that heaven and earth will be blighted in
\ncoming time.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. For, as through Zarathustra, God’s Word hath been established on the earth; and since
\nwords themselves perish and are supplemented by new words, the time shall come when
\nthe higher law will fall, as a house on sand. For there are no words that are everlasting,
\nand that are understood by all men alike; words themselves are but as husks that surround
\nthe corn. Men in darkness quibble on the husks, but discern not the fruit within.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Jehovih spake to Div, saying: Man buildeth a house, and it perisheth. Succeeding
\ngenerations must also build, otherwise the art of building would perish. Better
\nthe building perish, than the art of building. I created all men to labor and to learn.
\nWhat less requireth My Gods and angels? Because language melteth away, the
\nlanguage-makers, that is, My Lords and ashars, have constant employment of delight.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Div said: Foolish men run after a language that is dead and moldered away; but the
\nwise seek language to express the spirit of things. The latter is under the Divan law; the
\nformer is bound as a druk. And herein shall ye be circumspect; because mortal judges,
\nwho judge by the lower law, are bound in words.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Copies of these Divan laws were given to mortals through the Lords and ashars, either
\nby inspiration or by words spoken in sar’gissa. And in Jaffeth and Shem and Arabin’ya<\/span>
\nmortal kings decreed mortal laws and revelations, based on the Divan laws, and on the
\nZarathustrian laws.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Div propounded: A man and woman in mortal life were as druks, being filthy, and idle,
\nbegging from day to day, and yet they had born to them many children. And the children
\nwere alike lazy and worthless, being beggars also. Now in course of time, the man and
\nwoman die, and in time after, the children die also, and none of them are yet entered into
\nthe first resurrection in heaven, being beggars still and dwelling around their old haunts.
\nWhat of them?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. The Lords all spake on this subject, and after that Div decreed: Such spirits shall be
\nreported by the ashars to the Lord, and the Lord shall send a captain with sufficient army
\nto arrest them, and bring them away from the earth, and enter them in a colony for such
\npurpose. This was called Divan act, the first.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Act, the second: For thirty days such drujas shall be clothed and fed. If by this time
\nthey manifest no inclination to labor, but are still lazy, they shall be removed into another
\nregion, where food can be obtained only by exertion.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Act, the third: This law shall apply also to mortals; through the ashars shall they be
\ninspired to migrate to cold and unproductive regions. Div said: Herein hast Thou wisely
\nplanned, O Jehovih! For all Thy places in heaven and earth shall be subdued, and made to
\nglorify Thee!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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

1. The Diva met thrice every year in Mouru, and enacted many acts, after the manner
\nherein before related; and the number was so great that all the spirits in heaven and
\nmortals on earth, were fore-planned, from before birth until they became Brides and
\nBridegrooms in heaven.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. And heaven and earth became as one country, with one king, who was God; and his
\nword ruled over all. And the Lords’kingdoms prospered, and the kingdoms of the sub-Gods and Goddesses; the like of which glory had not been since the earth was created. And there were rites and ceremonies, and recreations, and games, and pageantry on earth
\nand in heaven, so great that one might write a thousand books thereon, and yet not have
\ntold the tenth part.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. So, after God had reigned one hundred and ninety years, he descended from his
\nheavenly place, and went about in all the Lords’dominions, and the sub-Gods’dominions
\nin the lower heavens, that he might rejoice before Jehovih in the great good works he had
\ndone.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. And in all the heavenly places there was great rejoicing before God; and the singers
\nmade and sang hymns of rejoicing; and trumpeters and harpists proclaimed the glory of
\nJehovih’s Presence.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. So God had the people numbered, that the Gods of the etherean worlds might send in
\ndan for the great resurrection. And the number of Brides and Bridegrooms to Jehovih
\nwould be sixteen thousand millions!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. After that, God directed his fire-ship to run close to the earth, that he might survey
\nmortals and their kingdoms. And he visited all the great nations of earth, to the south,
\nand north, and east, and west. And now his soul cried out with great sorrow! The great<\/span>
\npeoples of the earth were turning celibates!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. And the Voice of Jehovih came to him, saying: God, My Son, Hoab, why sorrowest
\nthou? And God answered, saying: Behold, the earth is not peopled over; the plains and
\nmountains are not subdued; the wilderness is filled with beasts of prey; the Zarathustrians
\nare running into the same line as the I’hins; they kill nothing; they live for the soul only.
\nAnd since they have learned the bondage of the lower heavens, they will not marry and
\nbeget offspring.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Again Jehovih spake to God, saying: Call not down a’ji nor ji’ay, My Son! Fear not. In
\nten years, behold, I will bring the earth into dan, and thou shalt bring thy harvest into My
\nemancipated worlds.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. So God sorrowed no more; and on his return to Mouru, and in the next following
\nmeeting of the Diva, he propounded: If a husband and wife have a child born unto
\nthem, they both being Zarathustrians: What then? When the members had spoken,–
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Div decreed: They shall have rites and ceremonies, that the ashars of the order of
\nZarathustra may be appointed unto it. What the ashars do in spirit shall the corporeans do
\nin corpor. And this was the first supplemental Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Through the commandment of the different Lords, the ashars assembled in the house
\nof a Zarathustrian at the time of the birth of a child, and these spirits baptized the child
\nwith a rod, sprinkling water on its head, after the manner of selecting victims who have
\nbeen delivered out of hell. And by inspiration the angels induced the mortals to go
\nthrough the same ceremony, having a priest to perform with the rod, which had been
\ndipped in water.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Div decreed: A baptized child showeth it hath sprung from the Zarathustrians, and it
\nhath inherent in it high possibilities. And if it die in infancy, it shall be received not with
\nthe children of druks in heaven, but in such place as will enable the parents, after death, to
\nvisit it with delight. This was the second supplemental Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. So it became common on the earth for mortals to have their children baptized in
\ninfancy, that in case of death they should be taken to a place of delight, and not fall into
\nthe power of drujas, the evil spirits.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Div propounded: If a young man, who is a Zarathustrian, and a young woman, who is
\nalso a Zarathustrian, and both every way obedient to the Ormazdian law, and to the
\nI’hua’Mazdian law, what shall be the rites and ceremonies of marriage for them? On this
\nall the members spake, and after that,–
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Div decreed: They shall be married by a rab’bah, with kin and friends present. The
\nrab’bah shall say: Ormazd hath united you forever; live ye in peace and love on earth, and
\nye shall dwell together in a heavenly place of delight after death. What Ormazd hath
\njoined, no man can separate forever. And whilst the mortal ceremony is being performed,
\nthe ashars and spirits akin shall have rites and ceremonies in the same house, and this
\nshall be called the beginning of a new heavenly kingdom. This was the third supplemental
\nDivan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Besides these, there were passed a hundred and eight supplemental Divan laws;
\nand they comprehended all things in life and death of mortals, and all things pertaining
\nto the resurrection after death. And so great was the power of the Zarathustrian
\nreligion on earth that war ceased, and the tribes and nations dwelt together in peace.
\nThe people ceased to build large cities, and ceased striving for the things of earth.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>17. But they learned little, save rites and ceremonies, and prayers, and singing hymns of
\npraise unto Ormazd, and to his Gods and Lords, and to Zarathustra, the All Pure. Thus
\nended the dominion of Hoab’s reign in heaven and earth, the like of whose greatness had
\nnever been surpassed.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. So Jehovih brought the regions of dan, and sent seven ships, and delivered God and
\nhis harvest of sixteen thousand million angels into places of delight, the Nirvanian fields
\nof Niscrossawotcha, in etherea.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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