{"id":1308,"date":"2020-05-14T23:11:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T23:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2020-05-14T23:11:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T23:11:05","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-friday-may-15th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/05\/14\/lectionary-readings-for-friday-may-15th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Friday, May 15th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter 21, Chapter 22<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 21<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Thus laid the three great countries, Arabin’ya, Parsi’e and Heleste, of which Parsi’e was
\nmightiest, peopled with very giants; lofty-bearing men and women, of red, copper
\ncolored; and with an abundance of long black hair; high in the nose and cheek bones;
\nwith determined jaws, and eyes to charm and command; mostly full-blooded I’huans,
\nhalf-breeds betwixt the I’huans and the burrowers in the ground, the brown people, dull
\nand stupid. The Parsi’e’ans were a proud race, built up in great comeliness by the God
\nApollo, whose high-raised office was to fashion the breeds of mortals into noble forms.
\nForemost in all the world was Parsi’e in all great deeds, and in men of learning, and in
\nancient wars. It was here great Zarathustra was born and raised for Jehovih’s Voice and
\ncorporeal words. Here the first great C<\/span>ITY OF THE <\/span>S<\/span>UN <\/span>was built, Oas, whose kings aspired
\nto rule all the world; and great riches amongst men were here first tolerated by the Gods.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. A strip of Parsi’e’an land cut betwixt Jaffeth and Vind’yu, and extended to the sea in the
\nfar east; but the great body laid to the west, covering the Afeutian Mountains, still
\nplentiful in lions and tigers and great serpents. In these mountains came the I’huan hunters
\nto catch lions and tigers to fight in the games, where men oft, unarmed, went into the
\narena, and fought them with their naked hands, choking them to death before applauding
\nmultitudes. From these mountains the hunters supplied the private dens of kings and
\nqueens with lions, whose duty was to devour thieves and other prisoners, according to
\nmortal law.<\/span>
\n\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Plate 92.
\nGALL.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. And oft these traveling hunters dwelt with the sacred little people in the wilderness, the
\nI’hins, whom Jehovih had taught to charm even the great serpents and savage lions and
\ntigers to be their friends and worshippers. And herefrom sprang a people called Listians,
\nwho, living mostly in the forests, went naked, to whom the I’hins taught the secret of
\n<\/span>CHARMING AND SACRED HAND POWER<\/span>, who worshipped Jehovih, owning no man nor God as
\nmaster, for which the Great Spirit named them S<\/span>HEPHERD <\/span>K<\/span>INGS<\/span>, for they ruled over flocks
\nof goats, which supplied them with milk, and butter, and cheese, and wool for cloth for
\ncrotch-clothes, the only covering they wore.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. These Shepherd Kings, the Listians, lived in peace, wandering about, making trinkets,
\nwhich they oft exchanged with the inhabitants of cities and the agricultural regions. Onefourth of the people of Pars’ie were Listians, who were well guarded by Jehovih’s angels. And these were such as De’yus meant to obsess for future use in terrible wars, but the
\nother three-fourths lived in the fertile regions of Parsi’e, the lands of which were rich in
\nyielding ample harvests. The cities were filled with mills, and factories, and colleges, and
\ncommon schools, free for all people to come and learn; and altars, and temples of
\nworship, and oracle structures, made without windows, so Jehovih’s angels could come in
\nsar’gis and teach His Holy Doctrines. Besides which were temples and observatories for<\/span>
\nstudying the stars, which were mapped out and named even as their names stand to this
\nday. And next to these were the <\/span>HOUSES OF PHILOSOPHY, <\/span>in all the cities; where great learned
\nmen undertook to examine the things of earth, to learn the character and property thereof.
\nAnd whether of fish, or worm, or stone, or ores, or iron, or silver, or gold, or copper, they
\nhad learned to read its worth and nature. And of things dead, no longer living on the
\nearth, and of strange stones, and of skins and bones of animals, their houses were well
\nfilled, for benefit of students and visitors. It was these that De’yus meant to have his
\narmies possess, body and soul, for his own glory, knowing that by their researches in such
\nmatters for many generations they had strayed away from Jehovih. For such is the rule
\npertaining to all children begotten on the earth. If the father and mother be on the
\ndownward road in unbelief, the child will be more so; but if on the upward way, to glorify
\nan All Highest, the child will be holier and wiser than its parents.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. In olden times the Gods had inspired the Parsi’e’ans to migrate toward the west and
\ninhabit the lands of Heleste, also a country of giants, but less given to rites and
\nceremonies; and they carried with them three languages: the Panic, of Jaffeth; the Vedic,
\nof Vind’yu, and the Parsi’e’an; and because they used the same sounds, mostly, but
\ndifferent written characters, a confused language sprang out of these, and was called
\nFonece, and the people thus speaking were called Foneceans, that is to say: We will use
\nthe same sounds, but take to our judgment to use whatsoever written characters we
\nchoose. Hence, Fonece is the first and oldest of mortal-made languages; and this was
\nstyled in heaven the period of the emancipation of mortals from the dictatorship of angels
\nin regard to written signs and characters and words. Jehovih had said: In that respect man
\non earth hath advanced enough to stand alone; and it was so, for, from that time to this,
\nneither Jehovih nor his angels have given any new language or written characters to
\nmortals. And all languages that have come from that time onward, are but combinations
\nand branches, and amalgamations and malformations of what existed then on the earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. The Helestians were rich in agriculture, and in herds of cattle and goats, both wool
\ngoats and hair goats; for it was in this country that the angels first taught man how to
\nbreed the goats for hair or for wool, accordingly as he desired. And these people were
\nalso mostly worshippers of Jehovih, and had many altars and temples; dwelling in peace,
\nand loving righteousness.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Arabin’ya had four kinds of people within her regions: The I’huans, the Listians, the
\nI’hins, and the brown burrowers in the ground, with long noses and projecting mouths,
\nvery strong, whose grip of the hand could break a horse’s leg. The brown people, though
\nharmless, were naked, living mostly on fish and worms and bugs and roots; and they
\ninhabited the regions of the great river, Tua. Over these people, to subdue them and
\ndestroy them, Osiris allotted his great angel general, Egupt, servant of De’yus. Egupt
\ncalled the region of his allotment after himself, Egupt, the same which is corruptly called
\nEgypt to this day.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. In the time of Abraham this country was called South Arabin’ya; but when, in after
\nyears, the great scholars entered the records in the kings’libraries, the later names were
\nused, being written in the Fonecean language and not Eguptian, which was the language
\nof the unlearned.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. But the chief part of all the people in Arabin’ya were I’huans, of color and size and
\nfigure like the Parsi’e’ans, being also the offspring of the I’hins and the brown earth<\/span>
\nburrowers, the hoodas, from whom they inherited corporeal greatness, even as from the
\nI’hins they inherited holiness of spirit. But the flat heads had mostly disappeared from
\nArabin’ya.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. And here were thousands of cities, great and small, even as in Parsi’e and Heleste, and
\nthey had colleges and houses of philosophy, even like Parsi’e, besides thousands of public
\nlibraries, which supplied books freely to the poor, who came here to be taught in the
\nsciences, and in the arts of painting and engraving and sculpture, and in astronomy, and
\nmathematics, and chemistry, and minerals, and assaying, and in the rules for inventing
\nchemical combinations. But the Listians were the only people who dealt in charms and
\nthe secrets of taming serpents and beasts by virtue of the hand, and by curious scents,
\nprepared secretly. And the Listians maintained the fifth rite in the resurrection, whereby,
\non the fifth day after death, the soul appeared in mortal semblance to his living people,
\nand advised them lovingly, after which he ascended in their burning incense going to
\nJehovih!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Of such like, then, were the people over whom De’yus, named Lord God, had set his
\nthousand millions, to subdue them for his own glory. And thus it came to pass, Jehovih
\nspake in Craoshivi, saying: The time shall come when angels and mortals shall know of a
\ntruth that the Lord God is a false God and a vain-glorious usurper. For I will leave one
\nrace of I’huans on the earth, in Guatama, even till the era of kosmon. And men and angels
\nshall see and understand that man of himself never inventeth a God in figure of a man
\nborn of woman. And that only through the inspiration of My enemies, who build
\nkingdoms in hada for their own glory, hath any people ever fallen from My estate to
\nworship a God in image of man.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 22<\/span>
\n<\/span>1. And now came the third assault of Osiris’legions of angels, inspired to desperate
\nmadness by the harangues of their generals and captains. And every mortal was marked
\nout, and his degree of faith in the Great Spirit known, so the destroyers knew well where
\nto strike effectively.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. At midnight again came the Osirians, rushing on, and by force of numbers laid their
\nhands on many mortals, millions! Held fast, and hurled missiles furiously about the
\nsleeping apartments, to rouse from sleep their mortal victims, who, to wake and see no
\ncause for the whirling stools and tables, and the terrible noises and blows in every corner
\nof their houses, sprang up affrighted, and lost as to know what to do. In many places the
\nangels of De’yus spake audibly in the dark, saying: There is but one God, even the Lord
\nyour God, great De’yus, on the throne of Hored. Bow down in reference before him, or
\ndestruction and death shall be your doom!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. The Osirian angels, gloating in their much success, now filled every house, where
\nthey had fastened on, and made all such places head-quarters for their captains and
\ngenerals and thousands and tens of thousands of angel servants, who were proud and
\nboastful, most hilarious in knocks and hideous noises about the house walls.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. In many instances the ashars, the guardian angels, were overpowered and crowded off,
\nfor because of the small faith and little spirituality in the mortals captured, their power
\nwas weak and scattered.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>5. But not in all cases had the Osirians won, but were in hundreds of thousands of
\nfamilies overcome or baffled till the rising sun, which drove them off, leaving the
\nJehovians still victorious. But sufficient was the glory unto Osiris and his legions,
\nwherefrom messengers were sent to De’yus speedily, with most exaggerated tales of the
\nvictories won.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. In Parsi’e there fell this night twelve hundred thousand men, women and children into
\nthe clutches of the hosts of De’yus, the Lord God, the false. In Arabin’ya the fallen victims
\nnumbered two millions; and in Heleste one million and a half! But not yet had the
\ncaptured mortals realized what had happened; they only knew frantic noises, and flying
\nmissiles disturbed them all night long. Many rushed forth to the oracles and altars to learn
\nthe cause, and to know if, in truth, the angels of heaven were at war; if God had come, as
\nhad been told in the old legends, to afflict mortals. The learned acknowledged not the
\ncause to be angels, but sought for cracks in the wood, or concealed persons, or cats, or
\ndogs. The which excited their disbelieving souls so they proclaimed before all men each
\nspecial wonder, a hundred times magnified.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. The unlearned believed in the angels thus suddenly come upon them; and cultivated
\ntheir coming, and hearkened to their words, to put away Jehovih and accept De’yus; or
\notherwise, after death, their souls would be weighed by Anubi, and, for lack of faith in the
\nLord God, instead of Jehovih, cast into everlasting hell.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. And such mortals, willing tools to follow spirits’advice instead of Jehovih’s light
\nwithin their own souls, were led through the Anubian ceremonies, but malformed by
\nsubstituting words to glorify De’yus, and Osiris, his so-called son.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. But the philosophers searched deeper, to find if, of a truth, the soul were immortal; and
\nif it be a very truth that the souls of the dead come thus back, setting at defiance
\nnature’s laws, as they called the common things about them? What, then, were the sum
\nand substance of the created worlds, and ultimate end, the all highest place for man?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. The which the Osirian angels answered, explaining that the first heavenly place was
\nhada, wherein were many hells; and that the all highest heaven was Hored, where the
\nLord God sat on his throne in great glory. And around him on every side were thousands
\nof millions of angels who had attained to everlasting peace, with nothing more to do but
\nto bow and sing praises unto their God forever!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter 21, Chapter 22 Chapter 21 1. Thus laid the three great countries, Arabin’ya, Parsi’e and Heleste, of which Parsi’e was mightiest, peopled with very giants; lofty-bearing men and women, of red, copper colored; and with an abundance of long black hair; high in the nose and cheek bones; with … [Read more…]<\/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-1308","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\/1308","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=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}