{"id":1224,"date":"2020-04-14T00:28:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T00:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2020-04-14T00:28:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T00:28:02","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-tuesday-april-14th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/04\/14\/lectionary-readings-for-tuesday-april-14th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Tuesday, April 14th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>3rd Quarter Moon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Book of Fragapatti Chapter 15, Chapter 16<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 15<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. In Mouru, God and his officers were using all their strength and wisdom to provide for<br \/>\nthe removal of his hosts to Craosivi. The demand for builders, surveyors and carriers,<br \/>\nwith power, was so great that God determined to send trumpeters through the kingdoms<br \/>\nof Ahura, the false, asking for volunteers.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. For this purpose he sent twelve otevans in different directions, some even going<br \/>\nthrough the city of Ctusk, Ahura&#8217;s capital, and they proclaimed aloud what they wanted.<br \/>\nAnd it came to pass that in less than one year the otevans gathered out of Ahura&#8217;s<br \/>\nkingdoms seven million angels capable of grade seventy, who were able to fill the places<br \/>\nrequired.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. This was the most damaging blow of all to Ahura&#8217;s kingdoms, for he thus lost the<br \/>\nwisest and most powerful of his people. And this news went like fire before the wind. His<br \/>\nsub-Gods began to revolt against him, claiming their own kingdoms. Many of them<br \/>\nopenly preached in their heavenly places against him, accusing him of falsehood and of<br \/>\nbeing a mere pretender, with little power.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. Nevertheless, he had great power in the name Ahura&#8217;Mazda, for he was believed in<br \/>\nheaven, to be the same God, even I&#8217;hua&#8217;Mazda, that inspired Zarathustra. And mortals<br \/>\nalso, living and dying in this belief, could not be convinced otherwise. And when their<br \/>\nspirits left their mortal bodies, Ahura&#8217;s angels took them to the heavenly city of Ctusk,<br \/>\nwhere they beheld its glory, shining and magnificent. And they took them in sight of<br \/>\nAhura&#8217;s throne, but not near it, and they were obliged to crawl on their bellies a long<br \/>\ndistance even for this purpose. And the throne was kept radiant with perpetual fire. Then<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">they were made to re-crawl their way back again, until out of the city. After that it was<br \/>\nsaid unto them: Behold, we have shown thee Ahura&#8217;Mazda&#8217;s heavenly city and the glory<br \/>\nof his throne. Himself thou canst not behold till thou hast performed the service which is<br \/>\nrequired of all souls entering heaven. Nor canst thou come again to this city,<br \/>\nmost brilliant, majestic, till thou hast served under thy Lords and masters thy allotted<br \/>\ntime. After that thou shalt come here and dwell in peace and rest and happiness forever!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. And these spirits knew not otherwise, nor would they believe, if told; and they thus<br \/>\nwillingly made slaves of themselves hundreds of years, carrying provender, or doing<br \/>\ndrudgery to certain masters who were again serving the Lords and the sub-Gods, going<br \/>\nthrough the same rites and ceremonies in heaven as they were accustomed to on earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. But Jehovih provided for all things, wiser than the wisest Gods. He created His<br \/>\ncreations with a door on every side, full of glory and freedom. Out of earth and<br \/>\natmosphere conjoined, He created animal and vegetable kingdoms. And He created the<br \/>\ntrees of the earth and the flesh of animals out of these two things, the dust of the earth and<br \/>\nthe air of heaven.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. With this possibility created He them; that in death their corporeal elements should go<br \/>\nto their respective places, where they belong. But this possibility created the Creator, that<br \/>\nin the death of a vegetable and in the death of an animal, when the atmospherean part<br \/>\nflieth upward, that it should carry with it a small possible part of the dust of the earth, and<br \/>\nit thus doeth His bidding.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. With this possibility created He His creations: that the earth giveth away of its<br \/>\nsubstance into atmospherea hundreds of years; and the fields become barren, and produce<br \/>\nnot; and certain animals become barren and produce not, and their races go out of<br \/>\nexistence. And He created man subject to the same forces; and when the earth is in the<br \/>\ngiving-off period, behold, man ceaseth to desire of the earth; he crieth out to his Father in<br \/>\nheaven for the light of heaven.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. With this possibility created the Creator the earth and the heavens above the earth:<br \/>\na time for the earth to give off its substance, the which flieth upward hundreds of<br \/>\nyears; and a time for the earth to receive from the atmosphere, surcharged from the<br \/>\nregions far away, an addition of substance, for hundreds of years. And when it is<br \/>\nthus receiving, it is called the time of a&#8217;ji, because that which falleth (condenseth) is aji.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. When a&#8217;ji cometh upon the earth, the drujas come also. The days of the darkness of<br \/>\nearth are their delight; their harvest is in the rich falling a&#8217;ji; it suiteth their laziness and<br \/>\ntheir inclination to bask about. They become in those days like an over-fed animal; and to<br \/>\ntheir masters, the false Gods, they become worthless, for they derive their sustenance<br \/>\nwithout labor. A&#8217;ji is their delight; but they are also like a foolish man drinking wine with<br \/>\ndelight, who continueth till his delight turneth to madness. So the drujas feast and disobey<br \/>\ntheir masters; and then they become boisterous and unruly, full of disorder and evil intent,<br \/>\ndefiant, believing themselves to be Gods and Goddesses. Like a beggar with a pocket full<br \/>\nof money, who lacketh discipline and determineth to glut his passions to the fill, so is it<br \/>\nwith the drujas in the time of a&#8217;ji.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. Thus Ahura counted without Jehovih; in his heart he had conceived great power in<br \/>\nhis kingdom; but the long a&#8217;ji told upon his heavenly places seriously. His sub-Gods<br \/>\nno longer paid him tribute, to support in ease and glory his five millions of heralds,<br \/>\nhis five millions of musicians, his five millions of ceremonious paraders, giving<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">and providing for them constantly new costumes and new palaces and new decorations.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. So, first one and then another of his sub-Gods revolted; and Ahura was powerless to<br \/>\nenforce obedience, for so dense was a&#8217;ji that whoever Ahura sent forth only reveled in<br \/>\nsumptuous feastings. And it came to pass that, in years after a&#8217;ji sat in, when over six<br \/>\nhundred of Ahura&#8217;s sub-Gods had dissolved all connection with him, and of the two<br \/>\nhundred yet remaining, who were situated close about Ctusk, Ahura&#8217;s heavenly place, not<br \/>\nten of them could be relied upon in emergency.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. At this time Ahura resolved upon regaining his lost dominions, and it was like a<br \/>\nman having lost heavily at the games, resolving to win all or lose all. Accordingly,<br \/>\nAhura set his workmen to building parade ships, fifty thousand. He said unto his<br \/>\nremaining sub-Gods: Behold I will traverse the heavens in such magnificence and glory<br \/>\nthat all angels and mortals shall fall down and worship me. And surely, too, this time of<br \/>\na&#8217;ji must come to an end; and in that day I will remember those that have been faithful<br \/>\nunto me. And I will also remember, with a curse, those who have been unfaithful to me.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. For fourteen years the workmen were building Ahura&#8217;s fleet, and yet they had built but<br \/>\nthirty thousand ships. For so great was the desertion of his skilled men that failure met<br \/>\nhim on all sides. But with these thirty thousand ships Ahura determined to travel<br \/>\nthroughout all the atmospherean heavens.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. Accordingly, he called together his heralds, five millions; his musicians, five millions;<br \/>\nhis masters of ceremonies, five millions; his masters of rites, five millions; his marshals,<br \/>\nten millions; his captains, twenty millions; his generals, three millions; his Lords, one<br \/>\nmillion, and of his sub-Gods, one hundred and fifty, with their attendants, twenty<br \/>\nmillions; his bearers of trophies, ten millions; his light makers, ten millions; his waterers,<br \/>\nten millions; his torch-bearers, five millions; his body-guard, thirty millions. Besides<br \/>\nthese there were the bearers of banners, the proclaimers, the road makers, the surveyors,<br \/>\nthe directors, and so on, more than fifty millions. And yet the traveling hosts, one hundred<br \/>\nmillions, and waiters for them, one hundred millions. In all there were upward of four<br \/>\nhundred millions of spirits that went within the thirty thousand ships, and the ships were<br \/>\nnot full.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. And the ships traveled in the form of a pyramid, but not touching one another, and yet<br \/>\nfastened together. And the base of the pyramid was four hundred miles wide every way,<br \/>\nand four hundred miles high. And the belt of light around the pyramid was a thousand<br \/>\nmiles in diameter every way; and it was ballasted to run within fifty miles of the earth&#8217;s<br \/>\nsurface.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. Thus sat out Ahura for a whole year&#8217;s cruise in atmospherea; and wherever he went he<br \/>\nproclaimed himself thus: Ahura&#8217;Mazda, the Creator! The Only Begotten Son of the<br \/>\nUnknowable! Behold, I come; I, the Creator! I have come to judge heaven and earth!<br \/>\nWhoever is for Me I will raise up to Nirvana; whoever is against Me I will cast into hell.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. The pyramid reflected light in its travel; and Ahura&#8217;s emissaries on earth used this as a<br \/>\ntestimony that all things were about to come to an end; the earth to be cast out, and<br \/>\nheaven and hell to be filled up with spirits, each to its place, according to its obedience or<br \/>\ndisobedience to Ahura&#8217;Mazda.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">19. On the other hand, Ahura&#8217;s revolted sub-Gods laughed at him; and, as for the over-fed<br \/>\nand debauched drujas, they mocked at him. So it came to pass that when Ahura visited his<br \/>\nrevolted sub-Gods in their kingdoms, instead of regaining their allegiance, he was sent on<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">his way with hisses and groans. And yet never since the earth and her heavens were, had<br \/>\nthere been such great show and pageantry.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">20. Before Ahura had visited half the kingdoms in atmospherea he foresaw the futility of<br \/>\nhis project; the probable downfall of his own mighty kingdoms began to break in on his<br \/>\nheart. Enthusiasm for his name was on the wane, and all his magnificence had failed to<br \/>\nrestore him to what he had been.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">21. Now, whilst he was absent from Ctusk, the capital of his kingdoms, he had deputed<br \/>\nFravaitiwagga to reign in his stead, and to maintain the order and glory of his throne.<br \/>\nFravaitiwagga was a deserter from God&#8217;s Haienne colony in Haraiti, where he had been<br \/>\neducated two hundred years, and was expert in primary surveys and buildings, but<br \/>\nimpatient for advancement beyond his capacity. He had now been with Ahura three<br \/>\nhundred years, learning little, but feasting and frolicking, being a great flatterer of Ahura,<br \/>\nand given to long speeches and flowery words.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">22. Whilst Fravaitiwagga was on the throne, and after the departure of Ahura on his<br \/>\nexcursion, there came to him one Ootgowski, a deserter from Hestinai in Zeredho, who<br \/>\nhad been in Ahura&#8217;s service a hundred and fifty years, but banished from his heavenly<br \/>\nplace by Ahura on account of gluttony and drunkenness, since which time he had been a<br \/>\nwandering spirit, dwelling sometimes in one kingdom and then in another, and oft<br \/>\nvisiting the earth and gaining access to the oracles, and even to mortal priests, where he<br \/>\nrepresented himself, sometimes as Ahura&#8217;Mazda, sometimes as God, sometimes a<br \/>\nfavorite Lord, sometimes Fragapatti, and Thor, and Osire, and, in fact, any name he<br \/>\nchose, issuing decrees and commandments to mortals, then flying away to return no more.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">23. Ootgowski came to Fravaitiwagga and he said unto him: Greeting to thee, O God, in<br \/>\nthe name of Ahura&#8217;Mazda! Behold, I am sent to thee in great haste by our Creator,<br \/>\nAhura; who commandeth thy presence in the province of Veatsagh, where is held a<br \/>\nmighty Council with Ahura&#8217;s re-affiliated sub-Gods. What preferment Ahura&#8217;Mazda<br \/>\nhath fashioned for thee I know not. To this Fravaitiwagga answered as followeth, to wit:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">24. Who are thou, and from what kingdom? And above all, why art thou come without<br \/>\nheralds and attendants? To this Ootgowski answered, saying: Behold me! Knowest<br \/>\nthou not me? I am Haaron, God of Sutuyotha! Who else could come so quickly?<br \/>\nWho else but I runneth fearlessly unattended betwixt the kingdoms of the Gods?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">25. Fravaitiwagga had been drunk many days, and was so dazed with the pretentious<br \/>\nOotgowski that he took for granted that he was indeed Haaron, a great friend to Ahura.<br \/>\nFravaitiwagga called his Council together and appointed Semmes to be God in<br \/>\nhis stead; and so Fravaitiwagga departed in an arrow-ship, with messengers, for<br \/>\nVeatsagh, which lies in an entirely different direction to where Ahura was traveling.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">26. Semmes, the deputized God of Ctusk, was faithful to his office for four days, and then<br \/>\nproclaimed recreation until the trumpet call from the throne. And in this interval the<br \/>\ndebauchee, Ootgowski, obtained access to the floor of the inner chamber, and seduced<br \/>\nSemmes to accompany him, carrying off all the costly gems and jewels of the throne! And<br \/>\nwhen without the capital, they embarked with their plunder in an arrow-ship to some<br \/>\nunknown region.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">27. For many days the members of the Council waited for the trumpet call, but not<br \/>\nhearing it, resolved to learn the cause. And after diligent search, not finding Semmes,<br \/>\nbut discovering that the throne had been plundered of its valuables, they were thrown<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">into great confusion. In two days after this the throne was destroyed, the Council<br \/>\ndivided and gone, and the heavenly city of Ctusk turned to riot and plunder.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">28. And there were in Ctusk and near about, upward of four thousand million angels with<br \/>\nno God, nor leader, nor any head whatsoever. Thus it came to pass that Jehovih took the<br \/>\nthrone from Ahura, as had been prophesied.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">29. And whilst this was going on, Ahura was away with his pyramid fleet, being<br \/>\ndiscomfited wherever he went. But in two hundred and twelve days after his departure<br \/>\non his journey, messengers came to him and told him what had happened in Ctusk.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">30. Ahura gave orders to sail at once for his capital; which was done, and his pyramid<br \/>\nfleet hastened with all possible power. Suffice it, in a few days he was back in Ctusk, a<br \/>\nwitness to the rioting and plundering going on. But the majesty and splendor of his fleet<br \/>\nquieted the people, and restored order for the time being; nevertheless he was without a<br \/>\nthrone and without a Council.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 16<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. During the fall of a&#8217;ji, God decreed to his Lord Gods, to his Gods and Lords, and<br \/>\nGoddesses, as followeth, to wit: As ye have gathered of the rising atmospherean part of<br \/>\nthe living earth-substance, so shall ye now turn for your regimen above. It is in heaven<br \/>\nnow like unto the waters of the earth. When it raineth not, mortals go to the well and fetch<br \/>\nup water out of the earth; but when it raineth they go not to the well for water, but set out<br \/>\nvessels, and the rain filleth them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. So, in the times of dan and half dan and quarter dan, our hosts bring their regimen up<br \/>\nfrom the earth. Wherein ye have many employed as laborers. Behold now, a&#8217;ji will rain<br \/>\ndown upon us sufficient and more than sufficient regimen for one hundred and eighty<br \/>\nyears. Suffer not, therefore, your laborers to fall into idleness, for this will lead to<br \/>\nmischief. But immediately put them to other occupations; suffer them to have no spare<br \/>\ntime.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. The mathematicians discovered there would fall no a&#8217;ji in Yaton&#8217;te, nor on the lands of<br \/>\nGuatama. So, God sent from several divisions in the heavens laborers for those regions.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. Two heavenly kingdoms, Gir-ak-shi and Soo&#8217;fwa, of Heleste and Japan, grieved God<br \/>\nmore than all the rest. For these had become strongholds for Ahura, who had pursued the<br \/>\nwarfare on earth till in those two great divisions all the Faithists, the Zarathustrians, had<br \/>\nbeen put to death. And the mortal kings of those countries had issued laws commanding<br \/>\nall people to be put to death that professed the Great Spirit, Ormazd (Jehovih). And the<br \/>\nlaw had been carried out effectually.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. So God bewailed Soo&#8217;fwa with lamentations. He said: O Japan, my beloved,<br \/>\ndown stricken! How can I restore to thee mortal seed? Thou art afar; no man on thy<br \/>\nsoil heareth the Creator&#8217;s voice! How can I carry her; she lieth down with cold feet.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. Whilst God lamented, the voice of the Father came to him, saying: Hear Me in My<br \/>\nwisdom, O My Son. I will not suffer Ahura to go thither. Withdraw thy guards from the<br \/>\nevilest of men. Suffer him to go his way. Ahura shall be brought home before he visiteth<br \/>\nSoo&#8217;fwa and Gir-ak-shi.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. God perceived; and he sent messengers to the guard over Ootgowski, saying to them:<br \/>\nWhen ye come to the guard, even to the captains, ask permission to speak to Ootgowski.<br \/>\nAnd the captain will permit. Whereupon, ye shall say to Ootgowski: My son, thou camest<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">hither, saying: Put a guard over me, for I am obsessed of Satan with the seven horns<br \/>\n(tetracts). And God appointed a guard over thee. In this day, behold, God sendeth to thee,<br \/>\nsaying: I will no longer guard Ootgowski. For his glory he shall enter the kingdoms of<br \/>\nJehovih and become a worker for righteousness&#8217;sake.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. When the messengers had said this much to Ootgowski, the latter said unto them: God<br \/>\nis wise; I volunteered to have myself put under guard, but I am tired thereof. Say to God,<br \/>\nhis Lords and sub-Gods, I will come to Jehovih&#8217;s kingdoms and work, for righteousness&#8217;<br \/>\nsake. But yet a little while I desire rest and travel. So Ootgowski was granted freedom<br \/>\npurposely, and of his own accord he went and destroyed the foundations of Ahura&#8217;s<br \/>\nthrone, as hath been told. And Ahura thus hastened home without completing the travel of<br \/>\nthe heavens.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. Jehovih said: What mattereth a name? Let them call the Creator Ahura&#8217;Mazda, and call<br \/>\nAhura&#8217;Mazda the Creator. Since He hath not shown Himself in a ship, or in the figure of a<br \/>\nman, behold, thy inspirers shall teach His Ever Presence.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. God perceived, and a record of the name was made and entered in the libraries of<br \/>\nheaven. And God looked abroad and saw that the same thing was even so in Gir-ak-shi<br \/>\nand Heleste. And God entered this also in the libraries of heaven. And the reading<br \/>\nthereof, translated, is as followeth: In the land of Celeste, the highest, most sacred name<br \/>\nof the Great Spirit, the Creator, was decreed by God to be Mazda; and the same thing is<br \/>\ndecreed of Japan.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. Hence it was known from that time forth that the origin of the word Master, as<br \/>\napplied to the Creator, sprang from those two countries only, and from no other division<br \/>\nof the earth. Of this matter, God said: In thousands of years this word shall be testimony<br \/>\nto mortals of the war in heaven of this day, which reached not to the heavens of these two<br \/>\nlands. And it was so, and will continue forever!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. So God had no footing in Japan nor in Heleste, nor had he sufficient power to<br \/>\nestablish a God or Lord in either country, or in the heavens belonging to them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. And when Diva assembled, God propounded this matter, on which the fourteen<br \/>\nmembers spake at length. And then Div decreed: To the swift messengers in attendance,<br \/>\nand through them to the etherean Goddess, Cpenta-armij, deploring of Diva in<br \/>\nJehovih&#8217;s name: Two heavenly kingdoms and two corporeal divisions have walled<br \/>\nthemselves about in idolatry. A&#8217;ji hath yet six years, and dawn twenty-six.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. In thirty days thereafter the star-ship, Gee&#8217;onea, from Haot-saiti, in etherea, made its<br \/>\nappearance in the heavens above, first observed on the borders of the bridge Chinvat. God<br \/>\nsent immediately a swift-rising Ometr to meet the star-ship and conduct it to Craoshivi,<br \/>\nwhither he had gone with one of the transports, with two hundred millions, well<br \/>\nselected, to found a new city in heaven. Suffice it, in three days&#8217;time the star ship<br \/>\nlanded in Craoshivi with one million laborers provided to endure till the coming dawn.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. After due salutations, Os, chief Captain of the ethereans, said unto God: In Jehovih&#8217;s<br \/>\nname am I come to possess the heavenly places, Soo&#8217;fwa and Gir-ak-shi, and their lands,<br \/>\nJapan and Heleste. This work must be accomplished before dawn; before the coming of<br \/>\nCpenta-armij. Send thou, therefore, thy messengers who know the places, that I may<br \/>\nconduct my hosts thither to labor.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. God then gave messengers to Os, and the latter departed and went to the kingdoms<br \/>\nnamed; and it so happened, by the wisdom of Jehovih, that this took place at the same<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">time that Ahura had returned and found his capital and throne demolished. Hence Ahura<br \/>\nwas powerless to interfere with the labor of Os and his hosts.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. So Os divided his forces and possessed both Soo&#8217;fwa and Gir-ak-shi, together with the<br \/>\ndivisions of the earth thereunto belonging. And Os possessed the corporeal temples of<br \/>\nworship, and the places of the oracles, and all places for consulting spirits. And he taught<br \/>\nnot the name of Jehovih, nor of the Great Spirit, nor of the Father; for none of these<br \/>\nwould be received. But this he taught; thus he extolled; thus inspired O<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">F THE <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">M<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">AZDA<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">THE<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">C<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">REATOR<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">; <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">OF THE <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">V<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">OICE <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">HAT <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">S<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">PAKE TO <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Z<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ARATHUSTRA<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">THE <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">A<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">LL <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">P<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">URE<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">. To goodness and good<br \/>\nworks; to self-denial and love; to justice and truth; of mercy and obedience to the all<br \/>\nhighest light in the soul.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3rd Quarter Moon Book of Fragapatti Chapter 15, Chapter 16 Chapter 15 1. In Mouru, God and his officers were using all their strength and wisdom to provide for the removal of his hosts to Craosivi. The demand for builders, surveyors and carriers, with power, was so great that God determined to send trumpeters through &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/04\/14\/lectionary-readings-for-tuesday-april-14th-2020\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[46,40,39,34,36,35,38,33,41,31,32,47,50,48,44,45,43,42],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-lightofgod","4":"post-1224","6":"format-standard","7":"category-lectionary-readings","8":"post_tag-calendar","9":"post_tag-daily-readings","10":"post_tag-eloih","11":"post_tag-faithism","12":"post_tag-faithist-church","13":"post_tag-faithists","14":"post_tag-jehovih","15":"post_tag-kosmon-era","16":"post_tag-lectionary-readings","17":"post_tag-oahspe","18":"post_tag-oahspe-bible","19":"post_tag-observances","20":"post_tag-religion-of-light","21":"post_tag-sabbath","22":"post_tag-united-covenant","23":"post_tag-united-covenant-of-light","24":"post_tag-yeshua","25":"post_tag-yoshu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}