Lectionary Readings for Monday, December 2nd, 2019

Book of Jehovih’s Kingdom on Earth Chapter 11

1. Jehovih had prospered Shalam in every way, more than had been possible to any other
people in all the world.

2. Whilst the nurses and teachers were providing for the infants, the rest of the people
were providing habitations, factories and educational workshops, and also tilling the
ground and ornamenting it with fields, gardens and orchards, and with walks and terraces.

3. In regard to the houses, the temple of Jehovih, the temple of Apollo and the
gymnasium were the most important, and, yet, none of these were like unto the buildings
of the ancients.

4. Jehovih had said: Behold, the ancients built their temples so durable that succeeding
generations forgot the art of building. Better is it for man’s talent to remain, than for
stones and pillars of iron.

5. For which reason, in kosmon, thou shalt not build imperishably in corporeal things;
but rather leave the way open for succeeding generations to build also.

6. The temple of Jehovih, which was devoted to public worship on every seventh day of
the week, was provided with fountains in the north-east and south-west, and with the four
lights of the square, and with the four dark corners of evil and temptation, and with a
throne of Light in the east, with time-bells, a gau and sacred wheel. The ceiling
represented the stars and planets, interblended with plateaux of the heavenly kingdoms.
The east was adorned with the rising sun, the south with the sun at noon, and the west
with the setting sun. The north was adorned with the pole-star and aurora borealis. The
belt of the zodiac, colored in cream-yellow, crossed over the ceiling and faded down the
east and west walls. On the south wall was the coil and travel of the great serpent
(solar phalanx), from the time of the Arc of Bon (of Moses, Capilya and Chine) down
to the Arc of Kosmon, in the etherean heavens. Flags of golden colors were provided for
the four lights, and were mounted on silver-colored staffs inclining toward the altar of
the Covenant; and this was in the place Tae stood, betwixt the crescent horns, when
they had, on the first day, made the covenant. And in the place of the crescent, where
the fifty-one stood, was laid a stone crescent, provided with seats and gate-ways
for successive affiliations to Jehovih’s kingdom. The outside of the temple was of wood,
and was surrounded by posts made of native trees, surmounted with a roof of cement.

7. When the temple was completed, Tae said: Who but Gods could have made
anything so beautiful with such cheap material! And if it perish in two generations,
two things man shall gain; the third generation can build another; and, moreover, we
shall not have left a temple on earth that will call us back from the higher heavens
for more than two generations of time, to look after mortals who might applaud us.

8. In regard to worship in the temple, Jehovih had said:

9. As, in the olden times, I provided a preacher to stand at the altar in the east, and speak
unto the multitude, behold, in kosmon, the multitude shall render an account before My
altar of their fulfillment of My commandments, and My C’chief shall respond in My
name.

10. And such, indeed, it was; instead of a preacher denouncing people for their sins, it
was a place where the people returned thanks and praises to Jehovih, with rejoicing, in
anthems and songs of praise, with pleadings in Jehovih’s name for the Uzians to learn the
lessons of the new kingdom.

11. And it came to pass that Uzians did come, and listen, and look on, and examine,
saying and inquiring:

12. Why was not this tried before? A people without a leader!

13. And whilst they thus pondered, they looked upon the meadows and lawns, the
orchards and hot-houses and the rich-growing fields, saying: Is not this the garden of
Paradise?

14. The temple of Apollo was devoted to music, dancing, calisthenics, initiative
processions, rites and ceremonies of amusement. The interior was finished illustrative
of proportions and figures of symmetry and beauty. The decorations illustrated
attitudes, posings and groupings. On the east summit was a figurative illustration of the
God Apollo with his heavenly hosts, descended to the lower heavens, in past ages,
looking down on to earth at a group of druks (ill-formed mortals) with long arms,
who were squatting on their haunches. Apollo was illustrating, on a well-formed model,
to his angels, how the druks of earth were to be changed into shapeliness and beauty.

15. In its external structure, the temple of Apollo illustrated a combination of one
thousand designs of architecture, arches, curves, columns, pillars and so on. And yet all of
this was made of the forest trees of Shalam and without cost.

16. Next to these was the gymnasium, which contained also two swimming baths and one
hundred single bath-rooms.

17. Here were all kinds of places for developing muscular action, with swings, ropes to
walk, places for leaping, places for tumbling and climbing. This was under the charge of
the group of physicians. The temple of Apollo was under the charge of the group of
musicians. The temple of Jehovih was under the charge of the C’chief and his group of
chiefs.

18. Besides these, were the houses of Architecture, the house of Mechanics, the house of
Horticulture, which adjoined the hothouses on the north and west. Here were grown all
kinds of fruit and herbs for food, and many beautiful flowers, rich-growing all the year
around.

19. Then the Agricultural house; then the factories, for hats, clothing, shoes, cutlery, and,
in fact, all conceivable places required by man.

20. And not the least interesting of all was the house of Nurseries.

21. Here were the heart and kernel of the whole colony, the orphans and castaways
gathered up from amongst the Uzians.

22. Now, from the first of the inhabitation of Shalam, the Voice had constantly urged Tae
and Es to make continual additions of infants to the colony.

23. The Voice had said: Give thy people plenty to do. Keep the nurses busy; give them
little to mourn for coming out of Egypt (Uz); keep them at work; keep them in the rites
and ceremonies.

24. Then Tae said to Es: Take thou one of the women with thee, and go back to Uz;
gather in more infants.

25. And that ye may be known and respected by the Uzians as to your occupation, go in
plain black dress, without oddity, and I will give to each of you a wooden triangle, which
shall be suspended on your bosoms by a cord over the neck; for this is the symbol of
earth, sky and spirit, the three entities which constitute the universe, being emblematical
of Jehovih.

26. So, Es took Hamarias, a young woman of Thessagowan, and went back to Uz, and in
the cities gathered up infant waifs and brought them to Shalam.

27. And thus, every year, they brought from twenty to fifty additional infants, and adopted
them in the nurseries.

28. So that, in not many years, there were more than a thousand orphans in the colony.

29. It so happened, in the second year of Shalam, that a disease came amongst the cows,
and the physicians forbade the babes being fed on their milk.

30. So, for some days, they were in straits as to how to support the infants till other milk
could be supplied.

31. And one Abbayith, an elderly woman, said unto them: Why worry yourselves?
Behold, the corn is in ear. Go, gather it, and press out the milk and cook it, and give to the
babes; for this also is good milk.

32. So, they gathered the corn and scraped it and pressed out the milk which, on being
boiled a little, was found to be excellent food for infants.

33. Thus was discovered artificial milk, even as it is bottled and sold to this day. And the
chemists also made water extracts from slippery elm bark, and from flax seed, combined
with rice milk, and this also made an excellent liquid food for infants.

34. Jehovih had said: Whether flesh or milk or cheese that man useth for food, behold, in
the herbs and plants and trees I created, I gave the same things. Let man discover them,
and understand the fruit of My inventions.