{"id":1312,"date":"2020-05-15T21:57:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T21:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2020-05-15T21:57:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T21:57:26","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-saturday-may-16th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/05\/15\/lectionary-readings-for-saturday-may-16th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Saturday, May 16th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seventh-Day Sabbath<\/em><\/p>\n

Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter 23, Chapter 24<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 23<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Not many more days passed, till Osiris called together his legions and gave them four
\ndays’recreation and a great feast, heavenly. And after the feast was over, he thus spake
\nfrom his temporary throne on Mount Agho’aden, that is, a place in the sky over the earth
\nmountains of Aghogan, in Parsi’e; complimenting them, saying:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. In the light and power of life and death I speak! Greeting, in De’yus’name, highest of
\nGods! In his love, to glorify you all for your great victory, this feast was spread, and my
\nvoice upraised in your praise.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. First, to thee, Baal, wise and powerful amongst Gods, for thy great energy and glorious
\nsuccess, do I bestow the Sign of the Sacred Bird, Iboi, to be thine forever. And next, to
\nthee, Ashtaroth, the Goddess that never tireth, or is without a stratagem, for thy glorious
\nsuccess I bestow thee with the fete, the circle and the true cross, to be thine forever.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>4. To thee, Hermes, most unflinching of generals, second in rank to Lord, for thy victories
\nwon, I bestow the Inqua. To thee, Apollo-ya, I bequeath a bow and arrow, for thou shalt
\nbreak the bonds of the creed of circumcision, and tempt mortals to wed by no law but by
\nthe impulse of the heart. For as the Faithists have been bound by their sign to marry not
\noutside their own people, so shalt thou teach the opposite; for by the cross of the breeds
\nof men, they shall be broken off from Jehovih.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. To thee, Posee-ya-don, I bestow a model ship, for thou shalt have dominion over seafaring men in all these divisions of the world. To thee, He-fa-yis-tie, I bestow a forge and tongs, for thy dominions over mortals shall be with the workers of metals and weapons of
\nwar.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. To thee, Pluton-ya, I bestow a torch and brand of fire, for thou shalt rule over mortals
\nfor the destruction of cities and houses, to whomsoever will not bow down to De’yus as
\nthe highest God. To thee, Ura-na, queen of the es’enaurs, the very stars of my armies, I
\nbestow a quill and staff, for thou shalt have dominion over the songs of the earth,
\ninspiring mortals to sing praises unto the Lord our God.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. After this manner Osiris went through the list, bestowing and assigning medals, and
\nsigns, and symbols, and emblems upon the generals and captains, and exalting many of
\nthe privates for daring deeds done, and for victories. And then Osiris allotted to the
\ngenerals and captains tens of thousands of spirits especially adapted to their respective
\nwork; and he placed Baal and Ashtaroth as chiefs over them. Next Osiris organized a new
\ndivision of angels, an army of one hundred millions, distributed into one hundred parts,
\nand called this army See-loo-gan, signifying spirits who travel about amongst mortals in
\nsystematic order, to measure them as to how best they can be used for the glory of the
\nheavenly kingdoms; and to possess them, or hand them over to be obsessed, as may be
\ndeemed profitable.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. At Pluton-ya’s request, Osiris made his selection for him, and then further explained,
\nsaying: To thee, all privilege in thy line. If thou find fire not well suited to destroy a city,
\neven though thousands of mortals be obsessed at the same time to fire it, then shalt thou
\nsuffer thy spirits to carry virus and inoculate mortals unto death; or to fill the city with
\nepidemic air, well poisoned, throwing mortals into fevers so they shall die. For in all
\ncases, whether Baal or Ashtaroth, or any of thy superior officers, say to thee: Destroy thou
\nthat city, or this city, or that family, or this family, or that man or this man; thou shalt so
\nfall upon the man or place as commanded, and accomplish it.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. And now, with due ceremonies, and with excellent music, the assemblage was
\ncommanded back to the earth to resume work. And Osiris’messengers bore the news
\nto De’yus, well exaggerated, extolling the fidelity of Osiris to the highest.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. From this time forth no masterly raids were made by the Osirians, but they improved
\nthe well-adapted times to give to mortals an abundance of wonders in angel
\nmanifestations; the which bait mortals caught at eagerly. And they were, for the most part,
\neasily persuaded to follow angel advice, and so fell to work and built temples, and
\nestablished oracles of their own; obliterating the doctrine of the Great Spirit, and
\nsubstituting the words: The Lord God, and De’yus, and Anubi, his holy Son and Savior
\nand Judge of the world; and Osiris, God’s commanding Lord of the earth. And mortals
\ntraveled about throughout all regions, preaching and explaining spirit communion, and
\nestablishing the Anubian rites and ceremonies, but never using the names Great Spirit or<\/span>
\nJehovih, save but to deride and accurse. The rites taught virtue, and love, and truth, and
\nthe acquisition of knowledge, but taught not peace, but war, which was maintained to be
\njustifiable if done for the glory of the Lord, or for the Lord God, or for the Son, the
\nSavior, Anubi, whose sign was a pair of scales, and who was sometimes called Judge, and
\nKeeper of the Gate that led to the upper heaven, Hored.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Wherefore it came to pass that the mortal adherents of Osiris began to war on the
\nFaithists and take their possessions. And inasmuch as the Faithists, by their pledges to
\nJehovih, dared not resist by weapons of death, but only by walls around their cities, and
\nby stratagems, and by running away, the Osirians had easy victories in most instances.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. In ten years the Osirians began to build great cities, after the manner of the ancients;
\nand to gather in their plunder taken from the Faithists.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. And Osiris, and Baal, and Ashtaroth, through their angel hosts, chose from amongst
\nmortals the largest and strongest, most war-like, and by means of the oracles, declared
\nthem kings and queens, and instructed them in building palaces and having thrones, after
\nthe manner of Lords and Gods. And directed mortals how to make themselves powerful
\nby organization and obedience to the kings and queens, who were recognized as adopted
\nsons and daughters of the Lord God.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Now it came to pass, in course of time, that in consequence of the great abundance of
\nangel manifestations, mortals sought by this means to obtain knowledge of heaven and
\nearth, and especially in regard to the end of man.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. And the Osirian hosts, being the only angels engaged in the matter of establishing
\nDe’yus, answered them, saying: The life and the end of man are to glorify God, who is
\nLord of heaven and earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. And the mortals pressed the matter further, asking: Who is God? What are
\nthe worlds? Whence came all things? How were the creation and the Creator?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. For an answer to these questions, Osiris sent messengers to the Lord God in Hored;
\nwhereupon De’yus called a Council of his God and Lords, to meet in Hored, to solve
\nthe matter, that a uniform answer might be given unto all the divisions of the earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. In the meantime, and before the Council assembled, the self (satan) of De’yus spake
\nto him, saying: If thou admit a Creator save thyself, thou art undone. For is this not
\nthe point whereon hang the power and dominion of Jehovih? The Lord God inquired
\nof satan, saying: Why spakest thou not of this before? Behold, the Great Spirit
\nsignifieth everywhere. But I am only as a man, small, compared to the size of the worlds!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. Satan said: It mattereth not; thou shalt say thou wert the Creator of heaven and earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. De’yus said: But this is not truth? When thou persuadest me to assume dominion of
\nearth, thou saidst: Be thou Truth in all things. How, then, shall I say, I created heaven and
\nearth? Satan said: When Osiris hath come before thee, say thou to him: Who hast thou
\nfound amongst mortals to be the greatest and wisest, best su’is? And when he telleth thee,
\nsay thou to him: Osiris, my son, him thou sayest is the greatest su’is shalt thou inspire in
\nperson. And thou shalt cause him to write answers to the questions of mortals, that the
\nlearned and the ignorant alike may know me and my kingdoms. Behold, before my time
\nboth heaven and earth were void as to a Godhead, save to the servants of Jehovih. And
\nbecause they were void in this respect, thou shalt persuade thy seers to know I created
\nthem from voidance unto mine own glory.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>Chapter 24<\/span>
\n<\/span>OF THE JAFFETHAN ASSAULT.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Anuhasaj, alias the Lord God, had said to Te-in, the false, to whom he gave in
\ncharge Jaffeth and her heavenly places: In the self same time that Osiris and his hosts
\nfall upon the divisions of the earth, even in that day and hour shalt thou and thy hosts
\nfall upon Jaffeth (China), possessing the temples and altars, and places of oracles,
\nwhere they serve the Great Spirit under the name Ormazd, and thou shalt subdue them
\nto me under the name Joss, who is and ever shall be Ho-Joss of heaven and earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. So Te-in, the false, with his thousand million warriors sped forth, downward, to the
\nearth, wide spread his army, to cover the whole of Jaffeth, in hope to capture it suddenly.
\nAnd even as Osiris plunged into the temples and oracle-houses, and about the altars, in
\nthe dead of night, to drive away Jehovih’s guardian angels, so, like him, and even worse,
\nTe-in was baffled and repulsed, and saw the morning sun arise upon his shame in total
\nfailure. And then he, too, with his mighty legions, went stalking about, all day long on the
\nearth, waiting for the next night’s assault on sleeping mortals, and to receive new orders
\nfrom the Lord God, as to the next proceeding.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Then came the second night, and Te-in went in, with his army, furious because of the
\nlast night’s cowardly failure. And to the sleeping mortals, men, women and children, hied
\nthem with oaths and loud boastings, threatening Jehovih’s angels with the tortures of hell
\nif they did not instantly resign all unto Ho-Joss, the all highest ruler, dweller in Hored.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. But faithful stood the Jehovians; laid their hands on the sleeping mortals, and became
\nall powerful against the terrible odds, and held them in abeyance again, till the sun arose
\nand scattered Te-in’s hosts, ashamed and sulky, in most pitiful defeat. Of which news Tein now, most painfully, sent to his commanding God.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. To him, even as to Osiris, De’yus sent word to next attack the houses of the men of
\nlearning, the unbelievers; and the ignorant, the superstitious; to abandon, for the present,
\nthe arcs, and temples, and oracle-houses, and the Faithists, firmly sworn. De’yus said:
\nSend thou thy numerators and mathematicians; and measure and mark all mortals in
\nJaffeth, as to the vulnerable points, and map their localities; and when thou hast
\ncompleted this work, set apart another night for an attack upon them. And thy hosts shall
\nfall not upon the Faithists who are firm in the Great Spirit, Ormazd, but upon the weak
\nand disbelieving, the skeptical and much learned philosophers, who are weak in spirit,
\nand thou shalt not fail.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. So Te-in enumerated the Jaffethans, as commanded, marking them as to their
\nvulnerable points, whether in disbelief in spirit, or if given to lust, or to hasty passions, or
\nto telling lies, or to stealing, or to murder, or to hypocrisy, or to desire for leadership. And
\nbefore the time of battle, Te-in knew the grade of every mortal in Jaffeth. And he called
\nhis generals and captains before him in his heavenly place, Che-su-gow, over the Chesain
\nMountains, twenty miles high, showing them the lists and maps.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Take these, he said, and distribute them before my mighty armies, and ere tomorrow
\nnight they shall learn every mortal’s place and quality; and in the night my legions
\nshall rush upon the places, laying hands on the sleeping mortals, thus gaining power;
\nand they shall hurl missiles, with terrible noises, through the houses of the sleepers,
\nand so arouse them to awake and behold the war of heaven carried to their homes.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>8. The generals and captains took the lists and maps, and had millions of copies made of
\nthem, and then sent them into all the regions of De’yus’militants; and besides sent
\nproclaimers, millions and millions, with terrible oaths against the Great Spirit, but
\nwho extolled the magnificence of De’yus to the utmost; appealing to their love
\nof independence, and to their power to cast off all other rulers forever, save Ho-Joss.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. And now, when the night of battle came, the infuriated angel warriors of Te-in
\nmarched in lines, millions strong, toward the sleeping mortals. Spread abroad their great
\narmies, covering the land of Jaffeth from east to west and from north to south. Over
\nGlang’e’loe, the C<\/span>ITY OF THE <\/span>S<\/span>UN<\/span>, were sent thirty millions of Te-in’s warring angels, sworn
\nto objurgate the people of great learning, alive or dead, and scatter the angels of Jehovih,
\nor bind them and cast them into hell. Over the city of Pen Goo were Te-in’s hosts, twenty
\nmillions; and over the cities of Tsee, and Wung, and Ha-tzo, and Ne King, and Zoo Wun,
\neach twenty millions of Te-in’s angels of war.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Besides these there were millions and millions stationed over the great valley of Wan,
\nand in the mountains of So-Jon. In the plains of Wow Gan were stationed seventy
\nmillions. Five millions were allotted to each of the following cities, to wit: Sum Conc,
\nAh-gee, Ah-sin, Chang-ha, Gee Oooh-young, Gwan Gouk, Na’tji, Yuk Hoh, Ah Tosh, Ah
\nKoan, Chaung, Shon, Nufow, Zow, Lin, Gee Bak, Ow-wa, Tdong, King-do, Ghi Sam,
\nSeung, Chog, Doth, Jawh, Bing-Tah, Gha, Haih, Hung, Wing-tze, Ni Am, Ah Sam and
\nZow-lin.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. In the mountains of Witch How Loo were stationed eighty millions, laying for the
\nListian breed of men. On the borders of the sea, for sea-faring men, and for their wives
\nand children, were one hundred and ninety millions of Te-in’s angel soldiers, ready for the
\nassault. Besides these there were tens of thousands of smaller armies, stationed in the
\nsmall cities and country places, waiting for the signal.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Now, in this age, Jaffeth had attained to great wisdom in many things, especially save
\nin war, in which her people were as babes. More than half her people were Faithists,
\nfollowers of Po, worshippers of the Great Spirit. And they practiced peace and dwelt in
\ncommunities. Even many of the cities were in families of tens, and hundreds, and
\nthousands, but nowhere more than two thousand. And the city families were after this
\nmanner, that is to say: The manufacturers of cloth of wool, one family; of cloth of linen,
\nanother family; of cloth of silk, another family; of leather, another family; of paper,
\nanother family; of transportation, another family; and so on, till all departments were full;
\nand of these combinations there were cities of fifty thousand, and a hundred thousand,
\nand two hundred thousand inhabitants. And in the country places there were small cities,
\nwhose people tilled the soil and gathered the fruits of the earth, and they exchanged goods
\nwith the manufacturers who dwelt in large cities.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. The government was by priests, one for each communion family, and the priests, who
\nwere called Wa-shon, were the receivers and distributors of goods, and they
\nministered in the temples and at the altars of worship in the name of the Great Spirit,
\nOrmazd, sometimes called Po-e-tein, and sometimes E’O’lin, and by other names also.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Besides the schools and colleges there were <\/span>HOUSES OF PHILOSOPHY, <\/span>and <\/span>HOUSES OF
\nPROPHESY, <\/span>and <\/span>HOUSES OF ASTRONOMY, <\/span>thousands and thousands.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. The Jaffethans were large, being I’huans, with one degree more of the brown people’s
\nblood in them than the Parsi’e’ans. Nor in all the world was there, at that time, so strong a<\/span>
\npeople, and clean and jovial, high aspiring, with great gentleness. And because the land
\nwas tilled and made to bloom on every side, the angels named it the F<\/span>LOWERY <\/span>K<\/span>INGDOM<\/span>;
\nand because the people reveled in song, and poetry, and oratory, they were called, L<\/span>AMBS
\nOF THE <\/span>G<\/span>REAT <\/span>S<\/span>PIRIT IN THE FLUSH OF SPRING TIME.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. And these things were well known to De’yus, and to Te-in, the false, and to hundreds
\nof millions of the assaulting angels, sworn to subdue them to Ho-Joss or to everlasting
\ndestruction.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. But because of the power of Jehovih with the most faithful of the Faithists, the
\narcs and temples of worship had stood unharmed by the satanic raid. Equally so the Teins failed to overpower the Great Spirit’s guardian angels. So now, after due preparation, the time came for another contest, this time upon the least Jehovih-like of mortals.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. On the other hand, the true God, Son of Jehovih, sent word from his throne in
\nCraoshivi to the guardian angels dwelling with these mortals, so unmindful of the Father’s
\ncare. He said: Come defeat, or disaster, or terrible darkness, overpowering your utmost
\nstrength, still struggle ye, in the name of Jehovih. The true Faithist knoweth nothing
\nimpracticable, but doeth his utmost for his highest light, though failure stare him in the
\nface.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. For once distrust of weakness entereth the human soul, the man slideth backward
\ndown the hill of faith; whilst he who will not consider results, save to serve Jehovih right
\non, fail or not, riseth, even though his project fail.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. With this and no other word from Jehovih, the Faithists stood about their weak and
\nhelpless wards on the low earth, waiting for the thousand million Te-ins. But not in
\nany lengthened suspense, for when the sun stood with the widest part of the earth
\nbetween, the midnight hour, the militants came rushing on, with oaths most hideous,
\nand by their dense flood of numbers reached the sleeping mortals and laid hands on them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. Then, with joy run to madness because of triumph, sent hurling round about
\nappurtenances in the dwellings. And, in many places, with audible speech thus held forth
\nin the dark to the affrighted mortals:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. From Sanc-tu I come, to lie in the dust every mortal born that will not bow down in
\nreverence to Ho-Joss, ruler of worlds. Give ear, O man; the anger of heaven’s Creator is
\nlet loose upon a disobedient race!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. And then, to give semblance of truth to the words, the angel intruders let fly such
\nknocks and poundings that they moved many a house on its foundation, and roused the
\nmortals, panic-stricken, to find the cause, or to hasten them quickly to repentance and
\nprayers.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. But not all was their victory; for the Jehovians firmly held the power in hundreds of
\nthousands of places. And yet the Te-ins had a wonderful victory.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

25. Te-in quickly sent word to De’yus, exulting, and exaggerating the victories won.
\nAnd in turn, De’yus congratulated him and his army, his thousand millions,
\nwho, now anchored on the earth, and with mortals, frolicked about in all regions.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

26. And in Jaffeth, in course of time, the same questions arose as in Arabin’ya; questions
\nfrom mortals to the spirits; as to the destination of the soul of man; as to the origin of
\nthings; as to the heavenly places? And Te-in in turn sent word on up to De’yus, in Hored,
\nas to what answer should be given. It was thus, that he, too, was summoned to Sanc-tu,
\nin Hored, to meet with Osiris, and Baal, and Ashtaroth, and Sudga, subduer of Vind’yu. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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