{"id":1319,"date":"2020-05-18T21:44:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2020-05-18T21:44:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:44:01","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-tuesday-may-19th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/05\/18\/lectionary-readings-for-tuesday-may-19th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Tuesday, May 19th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter 29, Chapter 30<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">THE OSIRIAN BIBLE OF EQUPT, AND VIND\u2019YU, AND CHINA.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 29<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. On the following day the three false Gods, Osiris and Te-in and Sudga, wrote<br \/>\ntheir account, each in his own way. And when they were read, Osiris&#8217;stood clearer<br \/>\nthan either of the others&#8217;; but nevertheless, Te-in&#8217;s and Sudga&#8217;s had much of merit.<br \/>\nSo it came to pass Osiris&#8217;account was adopted, with interpolations from the others&#8217;.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. This, then, is the completed report, to wit:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. These are the times of earth and heaven when created; the time the Lord God<br \/>\ncreated them. And the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the earth, and quickened<br \/>\nhim through his nostrils with the breath of life, and man became a living creature.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. And God caused mists to rise up from the waters, and spread over the earth, and<br \/>\nrain upon it. And he caused trees and herbs to grow up out of the ground; everything<br \/>\nthat is pleasant for the sight and good for food. Thus out of the ground the Lord<br \/>\nGod caused man to come forth, being of the earth, of the land of Eden (Spe-a).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. To dress the land and keep it pleasant, the Lord God commanded man, saying: This<br \/>\nshall be thy labor, in which thou shalt be perfected unto everlasting life. Of all things in<br \/>\nthe land of Eden mayst thou freely take and enjoy.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. And man prospered on the earth for a long season; and he was naked and not<br \/>\nashamed. And God planted the tree of knowledge in the land of Eden, and he said unto<br \/>\nman: This tree have I planted; partake thou not of it, for it pertaineth to life and death.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. And God called the name of the first man A&#8217;su (Adam). And the Lord God caused<br \/>\nman to name all things on the earth, and in the waters, and in the air above the<br \/>\nearth, and whatsoever man called every living creature, that was the name thereof.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. And the Lord God caused A&#8217;su to fall into a trance; and an angel of heaven came<br \/>\nand stood by his side. And the Lord God drew from the flesh, and from the bones,<br \/>\nand from the blood of A&#8217;su, and thus made woman, and brought her unto A&#8217;su.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. And the Lord God repeated his commandment unto woman, saying: Thou shalt sojourn<br \/>\nfor a season on the earth, and cleave unto A&#8217;su, for he is thy husband, and thou art his<br \/>\nwife; and thou shalt partake of all things on the face of the earth, save of the tree of<br \/>\nlife, which is of both good and evil, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. But because of the serpent (the earth) of the woman, she hearkened unto him, and he<br \/>\nsaid unto the woman: I say unto thee, in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt have thine<br \/>\neyes opened, and shalt become as a Goddess, creating offspring.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. And the woman was more easily persuaded than man, for she had confidence in the<br \/>\nserpent; and they partook of the fruit thereof; and, of a truth, their eyes were opened, and<br \/>\nthey beheld their nakedness.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. And presently they heard the Lord God walking in Eden, and they hid themselves in<br \/>\nthe bushes. And the Lord God said: Where art thou, A&#8217;su? And A&#8217;su said: Because we<br \/>\nheard thee walking, we hid ourselves, for we were naked.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. The Lord God said: Who told thee thou wert naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree<br \/>\nwhereof I told thee thou shouldst not eat? A&#8217;su said: The woman thou gavest me to be<br \/>\nwith me, led me, saying: Behold, it is good fruit; and we ate thereof.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. The Lord God said: Woman, what hast thou done? And the woman answered, saying:<br \/>\nThe serpent beguiled me. And the Lord God said unto the serpent: Because thou hast<br \/>\ndone this, thou art accursed, and thou shalt not rise up from the earth, but return to dust<br \/>\nwhence thou camest.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. Unto the woman the Lord God said: Because thou hast conceived, thou shalt have<br \/>\ngreat sorrow; in sorrow bring forth children; thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he<br \/>\nshall rule over thee. And I will put enmity betwixt the serpent and thine offspring; and<br \/>\nthe flesh shall call one way, which is unto earth, but the soul of man shall call unto me,<br \/>\nthe Lord God. And though the serpent bite, yet man shall bruise him, and subdue him.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. And God taught man to make coats of skins and be clothed. And the Lord God said:<br \/>\nLest man partake further, becoming as one of us, he shall go out of Eden, where I created<br \/>\nhim. So he drove man out of Eden backward, and gave him cherubims to hold him on<br \/>\nevery side, to preserve unto man the tree of life, that man might not only fulfill the spirit,<br \/>\nbut the flesh also.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. When Osiris had gone thus far, Sudga interposed, saying: If we say, Becoming as one<br \/>\nof us, will not man say: Behold, there are more Gods than the Lord God?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. Te-in said: Because De&#8217;yus said: Let us make man, shall we not use <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">US <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">in this<br \/>\ninstance?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">19. Osiris said: Hear me, my brothers, yet further; for I previously found a way out. For I<br \/>\nhave divided the Lord from God; that is to say:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">20. And the Lord God said: Because man hath learned good and evil, I am as twain unto<br \/>\nhim, for I am Lord of the earth and God of heaven. And that which is on the earth is the<br \/>\nLord&#8217;s, and that which is in heaven is God&#8217;s.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">21. And A&#8217;su called his wife&#8217;s name Eve (We-it), for she was the fountain of all men. And<br \/>\nEve brought forth a son, Cain, saying: I have begotten a son from the Lord. And she<br \/>\nbrought forth another son, Abel. And the first-born was begotten in darkness, but the<br \/>\nsecond of the light of the Lord. And the Lord had more respect unto the second, Abel,<br \/>\nthan unto the first, Cain.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">22. In course of time Cain brought of the fruit of the ground and offered it unto the Lord.<br \/>\nAnd Abel brought for the Lord, as his offerings, the firstlings of his flocks. And Cain<br \/>\nperceived that the Lord had more respect for his brother, and Cain was wroth, and his<br \/>\ncountenance fell.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">23. And the Lord said unto Cain: Why art thou jealous? If thou doest well, shalt thou not<br \/>\nbe accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at thy door.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">24. But Cain would not be reconciled (because of the darkness in him), and when<br \/>\nhe and his brother were walking in the fields, Cain turned upon Abel and slew him.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">25. God said: Behold, darkness is between men; the son begotten in darkness falleth upon<br \/>\nhim begotten in the light. And it shall come to pass on the earth from this time forth that<br \/>\nthe righteous shall be persecuted by the unrighteous.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">26. And the Lord said unto Cain: Where is Abel, thy brother? And he said: I know not.<br \/>\nAm I my brother&#8217;s keeper? The Lord said: The voice of thy brother&#8217;s blood crieth out unto<br \/>\nme from the ground: Now art thou accursed from the earth, for it hath opened to receive<br \/>\nthy brother&#8217;s blood from thy hand. In my sight thou shalt be a fugitive and a vagabond<br \/>\nupon the earth. And because thou hast shed blood, blood shall not cease to flow from thy<br \/>\nsons and daughters forever.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">27. Cain said: O Lord, my punishment is greater than I can bear. For I am become the<br \/>\nfirst foundation of all the wars on the earth; for thou hast hid thy face from me;<br \/>\nand it shall come to pass that every one that findeth of me in them shall be slain also.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">28. And the Lord said unto Cain: Whosoever slayeth thee or thine, vengeance shall be<br \/>\nupon him seven-fold. And the Lord wrote upon Cain&#8217;s forehead the word Asugasahiben,<br \/>\nsignifying, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">BLOOD FOR SAKE OF SELF, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">a mark, lest any finding him might kill him.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">29. And from this time forth Cain lost the voice of the Lord, because he went off into Nod<br \/>\n(darkness). And Cain took a wife and begot heirs unto himself after his own manner, and<br \/>\nthey were called Cainites, and the heirs after them were called the tribe of Cainites, which<br \/>\nsurvived him nine hundred and ten years, after which they were divided into six and<br \/>\ntwenty tribes. (And the name Cain was lost. But the people survived, and are known to<br \/>\nthis day as <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">THE WORLD\u2019S PEOPLE.<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">30. And We-it bore another son, Seth, in place of Abel, whom Cain slew. And after these<br \/>\ncame the generations of men, good and evil. And the Lord God said: Behold, I created<br \/>\nman without sin, and I gave him warning, that he might remain holy on the face of<br \/>\nthe earth. But woman hearkened not to my counsel, but to the serpent, and sin came<br \/>\ninto the world. Therefore shall woman bring forth in pain all the generations of the earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">31. Thus it was that the Lord God created man; in the likeness of God created he him.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">32. And the sons of Cain were called tribes, even unto this day, but the sons of the<br \/>\nrighteous were sons of God; wherefore it was said of old: Behold the sons of earth and the<br \/>\nsons of heaven.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">33. And the Lord said: Shall I not accord to myself to choose what I will? For this right I<br \/>\ngave to man also. And from that time after the sons of God were called God&#8217;s chosen.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">34. And it came to pass that man multiplied on the face of the earth; and the tribes were<br \/>\nmightier than the sons of the Lord God, and the wickedness of man became great in the<br \/>\nearth, and the desires of his heart were evil continually.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">35. And the Lord God repented that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at<br \/>\nhis heart. And the Lord God said: I will destroy man whom I have created; nor will I<br \/>\nspare beast nor creeping thing in the place I gave.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">36. Behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the lands of the earth, and I will destroy all<br \/>\nflesh wherein is the breath of life. But my covenant is with my chosen, who shall not be<br \/>\ndestroyed by the flood of waters.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">37. And God&#8217;s sons in Noe took with them pairs of the living, of beasts and<br \/>\nbirds, according to the commandments of God, to keep the seed alive on the earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">38. And when the earth was six hundred years in Noe, the flood of waters was come upon<br \/>\nthe earth. And for forty days and forty nights the rain fell, and the fountains of the sea<br \/>\ncame up on the lands of the earth. And man and beast alike, that drew the breath of life,<br \/>\ndied, for the land was no more.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">39. But the heirs of Noe suffered not; and the ships of the arc, whither the Lord had<br \/>\nconcealed them, rode upon the waters. And God made a wind to pass over the earth: and<br \/>\nthe fountains of the deep were stopped, and the rain of heaven restrained, and the ships of<br \/>\nthe arc borne upon dry land.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">40. And the Lord God said: Behold, I will build a new earth and a new heaven. For these,<br \/>\nmy sons, have proven their faith in me. Neither will I again destroy the tribes of men<br \/>\nbecause their hearts are set on evil. And the Lord God swore an oath by the bow of the<br \/>\narc, saying: This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all<br \/>\nflesh that is upon the earth. And by the sons of Noe was the whole earth overspread, and<br \/>\nthe Lord blessed the earth, and said: Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for<br \/>\nman; even as the green herb I have given. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the<br \/>\nblood thereof, shall men not eat.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">41. For surely your blood of your lives will I require; of every beast will I require it; at the<br \/>\nhand of every man&#8217;s brother will I require the life of man that feedeth on living flesh and<br \/>\nblood.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">42. And whosoever sheddeth man&#8217;s blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in my<br \/>\nimage made I man. And ye, be ye fruitful, and multiply, and bring forth abundantly in the<br \/>\nearth, and inhabit it, for it is yours for perpetual generations.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">43. Thus ended the words of Osiris. Te&#8217;in said: Because of flesh blood, thou art wise, my<br \/>\nbrother. Sudga said: Hereon hangeth the glory of our enterprise. For man being less<br \/>\nrestrained than in the Divan laws, will accept the new readily.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">44. After this, Osiris prepared a book of generations of men on earth; and these were the<br \/>\nsubstance of the doctrines of De&#8217;yus and his Gods. And Osiris and Te-in and Sudga<br \/>\ndeparted, and came down to the earth, to their mortal wards, and by virtue of their<br \/>\npresence inspired they their wards to write them in mortal words, according to the<br \/>\nlanguages in the places where they lived. And they were so written by these seers; and<br \/>\ncopies of them were made and put on file in the libraries of the records of the kings and<br \/>\nqueens of the earth, in Arabin&#8217;ya, Jaffeth and Shem. And these became the bible of that<br \/>\nday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 30<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. Now, after the three false Gods, Osiris and Te-in and Sudga, had revealed these things<br \/>\nto mortals, they sent messengers to the Lord God, praying audience with him, that they<br \/>\nmight disclose to him what they had done. Anuhasaj, alias De&#8217;yus, therefore, appointed a<br \/>\ntime of meeting, and the Gods came before him and made their report. After which<br \/>\nDe&#8217;yus said:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. In all ye have done I acquiesce; neither have ye said aught that I would not have said,<br \/>\nsave that I desired not to laud myself with mine own mouth. And thus ended the matter,<br \/>\nas to how mortals were taught to worship the names Lord and God, and Lord God, and<br \/>\nHo-Joss, and Joss, and De&#8217;yus, and Deity, and Dyaus, and Zeus, and various other names,<br \/>\naccording to the languages of the people of Jaffeth, and Vind&#8217;yu, and Arabin&#8217;ya, and<br \/>\nParsi&#8217;e, and Heleste. And thousands of millions of angels of the Lord God and his Gods,<br \/>\nwho were sent down to mortals, inspired them and taught them the same things through<br \/>\nseers, and prophets, and magicians, and through other people, also, by dreams and<br \/>\nvisions.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. And mortals were taught the secret of spiritually going out of their own corporeal<br \/>\nbodies, and returning safely; and in this state they were taken subjectively to the kingdom<br \/>\nof the Lord God, where they beheld him even as a man, sitting on a throne; and they saw<br \/>\nthe great glory of his kingdom, and beheld the worshippers, millions of them, glorifying<br \/>\nDe&#8217;yus, the false Lord God. And these persons became preachers on the earth;<br \/>\nenthusiastically stirring men up on every hand to draw the sword and spear and sling<br \/>\nto go forth in battle, to overthrow the doctrine of the Great Spirit and establish the De&#8217;yus.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. And it came to pass that they thus accomplished the will of the Lord God in all these<br \/>\ndivisions of the earth. The Jehovians, being non-resistants, were powerless before them.<br \/>\nKings and queens on the earth accepted these doctrines, and they marshaled their armies<br \/>\nin all directions to establish the Lord God, who had said unto them: As much as ye exalt<br \/>\nme and my kingdoms, so will I exalt you. As I behold, ye are become wise and powerful<br \/>\nto rule over many on the earth, so will I give unto you large kingdoms in heaven.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. And the false Lord God and his false Gods prospered in earth and heaven, as to<br \/>\nthemselves and their kingdoms, hundreds of years, nine hundred years, and at this time<br \/>\nthe Faithists of the earth were reduced to a small fraction of people, mostly hid away, as<br \/>\nsheep from wolves.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. But in nine hundred and fifty years, behold, the worshippers of the Lord God, the false,<br \/>\nbegan to quarrel and fight amongst themselves. Even as by blood they had established<br \/>\nhim, so by blood were the kings and queens of the earth overthrowing one another.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. Because of the warfare, schools, and colleges, and houses of philosophy, were wasted<br \/>\naway; the factories for spinning and weaving were destroyed, and the lands not tilled.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. And now of the heavenly kingdoms of Anuhasaj and his Gods, this is what occurred,<br \/>\nto wit: They had accumulated twenty-eight thousand millions of spirits, all of<br \/>\nwhom were servants to De&#8217;yus and his Gods. For the most part they were below grade<br \/>\nten, whilst three thousand millions were below grade five, which is helplessness.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. Jehovih had so made men and angels that, whosoever had learned to abnegate self and<br \/>\nto labor for the good of others, was already above grade fifty, and his ascension should be<br \/>\nperpetual thereafter; whilst they that were below grade fifty, who had not put away<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">self (satan), should gravitate downward, toward the earth. Wherein it had come to<br \/>\npass that the false Lord God and his false Gods were burdened with their kingdoms.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. And though they were adorned to the utmost, having vast cities for their heavenly<br \/>\ncapitals, with millions of attendants, and millions of musicians, who were forever<br \/>\ninventing new and wonderful music, and playing and singing, millions and millions in<br \/>\nconcert, with millions of trumpeters, near and far off, to fashion echoes beautiful to the<br \/>\near; and though they had decorators forever inventing and changing their thousands of<br \/>\nmillions of flags and banners, and the ornaments for the pageantry; though they had<br \/>\nmillions of heavenly cities, built with heavenly precious stones and gems of splendor, and<br \/>\nwith roadways and streets paved with heavenly diamonds and pearls; and though they had<br \/>\ntournaments, heavenly, and games, and rites and ceremonies, prostrations and salutations,<br \/>\nwithout end, with great ships, heavenly, capable of coursing atmospherea in journeys and<br \/>\nexcursions, ships to carry hundreds of millions of angels, whose chief occupation was to<br \/>\nsing and chant the glory and power and dominion of De&#8217;yus and his Gods; yea, though a<br \/>\nlarge book could not contain a description of the thousandth part of their wonderful glory,<br \/>\nyet each and every God began to see coming danger.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. Jehovih had said: Two precipices have I left open for testing man&#8217;s strength, and they<br \/>\nare: great prosperity and great adversity.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. And behold, satan came upon them in the guise of a good friend. First, he went to<br \/>\nAnuhasaj and said unto him: Thou greatest of Gods! Who is like unto thee? Behold, I<br \/>\ncame to thee in the beginning, and told thee what to do, even to stretch forth thine hand,<br \/>\nand heaven and earth should be thine forever, for thine own glory. And lo, it hath come<br \/>\non finely! Thou hast routed Jehovih and His hosts in heaven and earth; they are as a<br \/>\nremnant skulking away. Hear me, then, O De&#8217;yus, for I will not only praise thee for what<br \/>\nthou hast accomplished, but I will chide thee for thy failings.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. De&#8217;yus said: Wherein have I failed, O satan? And satan answered, saying: Thou art<br \/>\ntoo honest for thine own good; too pure for thine own benefit; too unsuspecting as<br \/>\nregards thy Gods. Being thyself honest, thou hast easily attributed honesty unto others,<br \/>\nand they have taken advantage of thee.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. Anuhasaj said: How? Satan answered, saying: In the first, thou saidst to thy Gods:<br \/>\nMaintain ye your schools, and colleges, and factories, and otherwise prepare the spirits of<br \/>\nthe dead unto resurrection. And as fast as they arrive at grade thirty, send ye them to my<br \/>\nkingdom, that Hored may be glorified forever. But lo and behold, thy Gods used the<br \/>\nangels as slaves, to build up the glory of their own kingdoms. They have suffered their<br \/>\nheavenly places of education, for the most part, to be scattered and gone. Neither have<br \/>\nthey inspired mortals to instruction, as I warned thee at the first. And mortals have thrown<br \/>\naside their schools and colleges, and their places of art, and have become riotous, and<br \/>\ngiven to gross living, and there is no resurrection in them. Which matters show thee that,<br \/>\nsoon or late, all the spirits of the earth will be of no grade at all, but as fetals and vampires<br \/>\nto live on mortals.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. De&#8217;yus said: Why are mortals become gross livers? Satan answered him, saying:<br \/>\nBehold, in thine own revelation to mortals thou saidst to them: Partake not of fish, nor<br \/>\nflesh, nor blood, for food, nor of anything that breatheth the breath of life. And now,<br \/>\nbehold what came to pass: Thy three Gods, whom thou hadst elevated and trusted, fell to<br \/>\nand made other revelations, wherein they said: Partake of fish and flesh; for they desired<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">to please mortals. And lo, it hath come to pass that man not only warreth for thee, but he<br \/>\nwarreth to the right and left, for it is in his blood, after the manner of beasts that feed on<br \/>\nflesh. Thy Gods had no right to give this law unto man without first consulting thee, to<br \/>\nknow thy will and pleasure.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. Anuhasaj said: Alas, it is true. What shall I do? Satan said: Thou shalt call thy Gods<br \/>\nbefore thee and chide them in thine own way, and command them to go down to mortals<br \/>\nand re-establish learning and industry, instead of war. Anuhasaj said: Even so shall they<br \/>\ncome and receive my reprimand. They shall know of a truth that I am the Lord their God.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. Satan went to the other false Gods, every one separately, saying unto each: Hear me,<br \/>\nO thou wisest of Gods, who shouldst in fact be at the all highest Godhead in heaven,<br \/>\nbecause of thy great wisdom and integrity. Behold, I came to thee at the first and foretold<br \/>\nthee how thy kingdom should become great and glorified; and even so hath it come to<br \/>\npass. When thou puttest forth thine hand to do a thing, it is done; for thou wert born into<br \/>\nlife different from all others, and for the highest of glories. And because of thy greatness,<br \/>\nbehold, all the Gods of heaven are jealous of thee and fear thee, all of which thou knowest<br \/>\nof thine own knowledge. Now, whilst I accord this unto thee, I will also chide thee for thy<br \/>\nshortness.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. For, because thou art honest thyself, thou believest the same of others; wherefore thou<br \/>\nart cheated and ill-used on all hands. In the first while, thou didst send thy highest grades<br \/>\nto the Lord God, to be his; yea, thou hast robbed thine own kingdom of its finest and best<br \/>\nsubjects for the glory of De&#8217;yus. And who is De&#8217;yus more than thou? Is he not a coward?<br \/>\nfor he feared to give his own doctrines to mortals; but he abridged his words till they were<br \/>\nworthless. And thou and thy fellow-Gods made his doctrines up in full for him! Yet thou<br \/>\nservest him as if he were thy superior.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">19. The false God said: Alas, it is true, with all my wisdom I have acted like a fool.<br \/>\nBecause I was too honest and pure for De&#8217;yus and his Gods, they have taken advantage of me. What shall I do? Satan said: I told thee at the first, that the time should come when thou shouldst rise to be higher than all other Gods. Behold, the time is near at hand<br \/>\nwhen thou shalt strike the blow. Thou shalt not only have thine own kingdom, but the<br \/>\nkingdoms of thy companion Gods; and even De&#8217;yus shall be tributary unto thee and thine.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">20. The false God said: What shall I do? And satan answered, saying: De&#8217;yus will scent<br \/>\nthe danger to his kingdom, and he will summon his Gods for consultation. Be thou ready<br \/>\nwith thine answer unto him and them; not hastily, for such is the manner of the weak;<br \/>\nbut most deliberately, in high holiness of purpose, for the good of mortals and spirits.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">21. Thus alike and like spake satan unto all the false Gods; and they nursed the planted<br \/>\nseed; held it in the light and shade to see it grow, till it became the very giant of each<br \/>\none&#8217;s understanding. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter 29, Chapter 30 THE OSIRIAN BIBLE OF EQUPT, AND VIND\u2019YU, AND CHINA. Chapter 29 1. On the following day the three false Gods, Osiris and Te-in and Sudga, wrote their account, each in his own way. 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