Lectionary Readings for Wednesday, May 29th, 2019

Weekday Sabbath

Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapters 50 and 51

Chapter L

1. When the temple was completed, and the king and his four high priests entered into the
Holy Chamber, the false Osiris, through his servant God, Egupt, came in sar’gis, and
spake unto the king, saying: Here am I, O king!

2. Thothma said: My labor is well recompensed. That thou hast come to me, O Lord
my God, I am blessed. Osiris said: Keep holy my chambers; suffer no man, nor
woman, nor child, that dwelleth on the face of the earth, to know the mysteries of
these, my holies, save and except my adepts. Here layeth the key of everlasting life.

3. Thothma said: How sayest thou, the key of everlasting life? Osiris said: Herein is that
which is of good and evil, as I commanded thy forefathers; to eat whereof man shall
become as Gods, and live forever. For this is the triumph of man over death, even for
which I created him on the earth.

4. Thothma said: Shall only we five know these things? Osiris said: Nay, verily; else
the light of my kingdom would not be full. Behold, thou, how I built the temple! Was
it not in the keeping of adepts? So, then, as I have given unto thee to know my
kingdom, thou shalt give unto others, not suffering these lights to come, save through
my commandments.

5. Now in the second month after the temple was completed, Thothma, the king, having
put the affairs of his kingdom in order, went into the HOLY CHAMBER, and thence
ascended into the CHAMBER OF LIFE AND DEATH, leaving the four chief priests in the Holy
Chamber. And Thothma CAST HIMSELF IN DEATH (dormancy) by swallowing his tongue.
Whereupon the priests closed the entrance and sealed the king within.

6. Osiris, through his servant God, Egupt, said unto the priests: One alone shall remain; in
quarter-watch shall ye dwell within the Holy Chamber, and I will remain also. And the
priests cast lots, and divided the watch in six hours each, unto every day. And Osiris sent
Baal to the spirit of Thothma, and took him to Agho’aden, Osiris’heavenly place, showing
the spirit unto the glory of the throne, saying: Behold the God of Gods. Thothma said: It
is a great glory; lo, mine eyes are blinded by the light of the Lord my God. After this, Baal
took the soul of Thothma into a thousand heavenly places in Osiris’kingdom, and showed
him the glory thereof.

7. Thothma said unto Baal: Thou angel of God, thou hast shown me, of a truth, God is in
the image of man. Nor is there any but one God, who ruleth over all.

8. Baal said: How sayest thou then; who is God? Thothma said: How sayest thou? For
behold, his glory was so great I could not look upon him.

9. Then answered Baal, saying: Only angels and mortals; these are the sum of all things.
He, thou hast looked upon, was even as thou art; a one-time mortal on a far-off starworld. He attained unto the Godhead, to create a world unto himself, even as thou, who
art an adept, canst create flowers and plants and serpents. Thus he came into the void
regions of space and created the earth and her heavens, and they belong unto him, for they
are his. And in like manner is every star-world, created and ruled by a God like unto thy
God, who is Lord of all.

10. Thothma said: O that all people knew these things! O that I may remember them
when I am returned to earth. Baal said: More than this shalt thou remember; for I will
now take thee to the hells of the idolaters and the Jehovihians. Baal then took the soul of
Thothma to the hells of De’yus, and showed him the horrors thereof. But he took him not
to the regions of God, in Craoshivi.

11. Now when Thothma had traveled in heaven for thirty days, Baal brought his spirit
back to the Chamber of Death, and showed him how to regain his corporeal part, the
which he did. And then Baal signaled unto Egupt, and the latter spake to the priest on
watch, saying: Behold, Thothma hath returned; go thou and fetch thy brother, and deliver
him into the Holy Chamber.

12. And when they came they unloosed the sealing stones and delivered the king into the
Holy Chamber, and he was awake from his trance, and remembered all he had seen in
heaven, which he related to the high priests who were with him. And both Baal and Egupt
came in sar’gis and talked in the Holy Chamber with Thothma and the priests. For one
day the king remained in the Holy Chamber, that his spirit be reconciled to the flesh; and
on the next day he and the priests came forth out of the temple and sealed the door
thereof, and placed the king’s guard in charge, that no man or woman might molest the
place. Now Thothma had been in the death trance forty days.

13. The three angels, Egupt, Baal and Ashtaroth, came into the altar in the king’s palace
that night, and showed themselves to the college students who had attained ADEPT. Baal
spake orally before them, directing his words to the king, saying: Behold, I am the angel
of God thy Lord, whom thou hast beholden in heaven; I am the same who traveled in
heaven with thee. What I speak, I say in the name of the Lord our God, whose servant I
am. On the morrow shall thy high priests draw lots, and one of them shall enter the
Chamber of Holies, in the Osirian Temple, and do even as thou hast. And after him,
behold, another of the high priests shall do likewise; and so on, until the four have had
thy experience.

14. And it came to pass that the four priests in turn CAST THEMSELVES IN DEATH, and visited
Osiris’heavenly kingdoms, and also many of the hells of De’yus, being led in spirit by
Baal or Ashtaroth, Egupt being the guardian God of the temple.

15. When they had thus accumulated the same knowledge of heaven and earth, the five of
them were of one mind as to attaining life everlasting in the corporeal body. Osiris said:
Behold, I will bring many back who are already dead; and they shall call unto their
embalmed bodies and wake them up and inhabit them. Go ye, then, to the root of the
matter, and prepare my people, for I will come in person and inhabit the temple ye have
built; and my heavenly kingdom shall descend even to the earth. Prepare ye the COLUMN
OF STARS!

16. Thothma built a column to the east line of the slat, seven lengths, and the height was
thirty-six lengths; of wood and stone built he it, with an opening from the bottom to the
top, and the width of the opening was six lengths. In the walls thereof was a winding
stairway, and there were windows looking out to the east and west and north and south,
that the stars from every quarter might be observed. On the summit of the column were
dwelling-places for the seers and mathematicians, with places for the measuring
instruments and lenses.

17. When this was completed, Thothma built of wood and stone an external wall across
the slat of the temple; and within this wall were stairs also, and these led to the top of the
pyramid. This wall was also provided with windows, that the northern stars might be
observed.

18. Thothma made an observing column for the sun, and it was provided with lenses of
all colors, so that adepts standing at the base of the pyramid could see the sun at every
hour of the day, and distinguish the spots and their changes. A gau was set within each of
the angles of observation, that the relative position of the sun with northern stars could be
determined every day.

19. By these two columns, therefore, Thothma and his mathematicians measured the sun
and moon and stars, as to the distances and sizes thereof. And Osiris commanded the king
to send into the far-off lands of the earth his wisest mathematicians, to observe the winds
of heaven, and the drought upon the earth; and the abundance of the yield of the earth in
different regions, in different years and seasons; and to observe famines and pestilences,
and all manner of occurrences on the face of the earth. He said unto the king: When thy
mathematicians are returned to thee with their accumulated wisdom, thou, or thy
successor, shall examine the sun and the stars and moon, as compared to the things
whereof the mathematicians shall relate, one year with another; and three years with
another three years, and five with five, and seven with seven, and so on for hundreds of
years, and thousands of years.

20. And when thou hast taken in the term of three thousand three hundred years, and
compared the sun and moon and stars, as relate to the occurrences of the earth, thou shalt
have the key of prophecy for three thousand three hundred years ahead. And thou shalt
say of this land and of that land; and of this people and that people, how it will be with
them, and thou shalt not err.

21. Thothma, the king, called together his mathematicians, and, according to their grade,
chose from amongst them twelve hundred. These he divided into groups of one hundred
each; and he gave them a sufficient number of attendants; and he sent them toward all the
sides of the world, allotting to them sixteen years each for observation, according to the
commandments.

22. And they took with them all kinds of instruments to measure with, besides scribes to
make the records of such matters as came before them. And they went throughout
Arabin’ya, and Vind’yu, and Jaffeth, and Parsi’e, and Heleste, and Uropa, even across to
the western sea; and to the south extreme of Arabin’ya, and to the great kingdoms of the
interior, and to the north of Heleste and Parsi’e, and Jaffeth, to the regions of everlasting
snow.

23. And in sixteen and seventeen years they returned, save some who died on the
journeys. And most wonderful was the knowledge these mathematicians gained. In some
countries they found philosophers who had the knowledge required even at their tongues’
end. Thothma received them in great pomp and glory, and awarded all of them with great
riches.

24. And Thothma had these things rewritten and condensed into books, and named them
books of great learning, and they were deposited within the south chamber of the
pyramid, where never harm could come to them.

25. And Thothma made it a law, that other mathematicians should travel over the same
regions for other sixteen years and make like observations; and after them, yet other
mathematicians to succeed them, and so on for three thousand three hundred years. And
accordingly, a new expedition started forth. Now during the absence of the first
mathematicians, Thothma and his philosophers observed the sun and moon and stars
every day, and a record was made thereof, as to the earth in the regions of Thothma’s
home kingdom. And these observations were reduced to tablets and maps, and a record
made of them in Parsi’e’an language, which was the language of the learned. For the
Eguptian language of that day was spoken mostly by the unlearned, and was mixed with
the Fonecean, a language of sounds.

26. After the mathematicians returned, Thothma and his philosophers examined the
whole matter as compared with the maps and tablets of the heavens, and the facts
deduced therefrom were written in a separate book and called THE PHILOSOPHIES OF GOD AND
HIS SON THOTHMA, KING OF THE EARTH!

27. Copies of this book were made and sent into the lands of Arabin’ya, Vind’yu, Jaffeth,
and Parsi’e and Heleste, and Uropa, to the priests of God, but the original book was filed
in the Holy Chamber, in the Temple of Osiris.

28. Thothma applied himself to impart wisdom unto all men. And during his reign
he built in the land of Egupt seventy-seven colleges of Great Learning, twelve colleges
of prophecy, two hundred houses of philosophy, seven adepteries, and three
thousand free schools, and four thousand houses of sacrifice unto Osiris, Savior of men.

29. Three hundred and forty obelisks to God, thirty triumphal arches to De’yus, four
thousand oans-nus to the Creator, and these were mounted on pedestals of polished stone,
and stood at the street corners.

30. And there were graduated to the rank of adept during Thothma’s reign more than four
thousand men and three hundred women, all capable of the death trance, and of going
about in spirit. And of these over seven hundred were permitted within thirty years to test
the cast of the holy chambers in the pyramid. And their spirits were conducted into Osiris’
heavenly regions, and sojourned there for many days, and returned to their bodies
unharmed. Because of the position of the chambers, there was no action upon their bodies
whilst in the swoon.

31. Thus did Thothma prove himself to be one of the wisest and greatest men that
ever dwelt on the face of the earth. He believed all things the Gods told him,
believed he was Thoth re-incarnated, and believed he would never die as to the flesh.

32. The false Osiris, through his servant God, Egupt, had said to Thothma: This is the
manner of heaven and earth, as regardeth man: All men are re-incarnated over and over
until perfected to immortal flesh; and in that day man hath so perfected his adeptism he
can remain on earth or ascend to heaven, even when he desireth. Hence of all knowledge,
adeptism is the greatest.

33. Thothma asked if there were any new creations. Satan prompted Osiris, who said:
Nay, thy spirit is old as the earth. At first it was small and round, like a grain of mustard,
only it was spirit. And the multitude of these seed comprise the All Unseen. When one of
them taketh root in gestation, then is the beginning. And it is born into the world a frog,
or an ass, or worm, or lion, or small creeping thing; and it liveth its time and dieth. And
the spirit hieth it back again into another womb, and it is born forth a man low as
to knowledge, evil as to life. And he liveth a time and dieth again; but again the spirit
hieth back to another womb, and it is born forth again, another man, but wiser as to
knowledge, and less evil as to life. And this continueth to hundreds of generations and
to thousands. But he who hath attained adeptship hath it in his power to call forth out
of the earth his own corporeality; he needeth no longer to go through the filth of others.

34. Thothma was wise even in his belief; for when he was growing old, and beholding
his flesh sunken, and his eyes growing hollow and dim, and his hands getting withered,
he inquired of the Gods, saying: I know thou hast taught me truth, O God. I am weak
before thee, as to judgment, and curious in my vanity. Osiris said: Speak thou, O king!

35. Thothma said: By all the force of my will; and by my great learning, I cannot stay the
withering of the flesh. If, therefore, I already dry up like a mummy, above the power of
my will, how will it be with me when I am further emaciated?

36. Satan prompted Osiris to answer the king, and so he said: Until thou art even more
emaciated thou canst not understand the power of thine own soul.

37. With this the king was reconciled, and even at the time he was tottering on his
last legs he began to build a new palace, saying: After I have changed this flesh into
immortal flesh, hither will I come and dwell forever. And I shall be surrounded by adepts,
wise and faultless. And this shall be the first colony of the kind I will build on the earth.

38. But afterward I will build many colonies of like kind; more and more of them, until I
have all the earth redeemed to immortal flesh. For of such shall be my kingdom, and all
men and all women on the earth shall own me Lord of all.

39. Nevertheless, with all Thothma’s wisdom, and the wisdom of his Gods, he fell on a
stone and died suddenly on the day he was one hundred years old.

Chapter LI

1. When Thothma was quite dead the priests carried his body into the temple, fully
believing his spirit would return from heaven and transform the body from corruptible
into incorruptible flesh to live forever. And they laid the corpse in the place previously
designated by the Gods, and sealed it up according to the commands of the false Osiris,
Savior of men.

2. Osiris had said: Whoso believeth in me, him will I save unto everlasting life, and
though he lose his body, yet again shall he find it, and the corruptible flesh shall be
changed in the twinkling of an eye, and become incorruptible unto life everlasting, with
the spirit that abideth therein.

3. On the fifth day the priests opened the chamber, for according to the LAWS OF MIRACLES,
on that day, the spirit should accomplish the feat; but lo and behold, it came not, and the
body still lay cold and dead. But the Gods came in sar’gis and said unto the priests: Seal
ye up the body for other five days. And the priests did as commanded; and after that they
examined it again, but life had not returned. Again they were commanded to seal it up for
other five days, which they did, but life returned not.

4. Houaka, who was now the high priest, inquired of Osiris concerning the matter. And
Osiris, through his servant God, Egupt, answered him, saying: Go fetch a young man who
is warm in the blood, which is life in the flesh, and he shall be the seventh son of an
adept, and know how to CAST HIMSELF IN DEATH.

5. The priests brought Xaian, who was in his twenty-fourth year, and when he came into
the Holy Chamber he was bid cast himself in death for benefit of the king’s soul. And
Xaian thus cast himself, and he was sealed in the chamber of death for five days along
with the king’s corpse. And in five days the priests brought both bodies into the Holy
Chamber, according to instructions. And Osiris came and commanded them to stand
around the bodies, and when they had done so, the angels from Osiris’kingdom came and
spirited away the body of the king, and they brought back the spirit of Xaian to inhabit the
body of Xaian, and put it in possession thereof, making believe it was the spirit of
Thothma returned.

6. Houaka said to the Gods: Where is the body of Thothma? Hath it been transformed?
And the Gods answered: It hath gone to heaven, and will return after many days. But as to
the spirit of the king, behold, he is with thee. And the priests spoke to Xaian, believing it
was Thothma. And after three days they came forth out of the temple and recrowned
Xaian, Thothma the Second, and they proclaimed it abroad that these things were true,
howbeit they knew to the contrary.

7. As to the spirit of Thothma, at the time of death, it was taken to Agho’aden and put
amongst the servants of Osiris’heavenly kingdom, and thus enslaved. So Xaian became
king of Egupt.

8. Now, as regardeth the false Gods, Osiris and his confederates, they never tried to
reincarnate the spirit of Thothma; but because of the virtues and the wisdom of Thothma,
they used him for benefit of Osiris’heavenly kingdom, and to establish Osiris
everlastingly on the earth as the all highest God.

9. As to the kingdoms of the land of Egupt, which succeeded Thothma, the inhabitants of
the earth already know the chief part. For hundreds and hundreds of years the Eguptians
were the most learned people in the world, and especially in a knowledge of the stars, and
the sun and moon, and in adeptism and miracles.

10. But woe came unto them; the land became flooded with hundreds of millions of
drujas; and as to the people of Egupt, the chief desire was to be able to return in spirit
after death and dwell with mortals. And the things which followed are not even lawful to
mention.

11. Suffice it, these spirits lost all sight of any higher heavens than to dwell on the earth;
they knew no other. And they watched about when children were born, and obsessed
them, driving hence the natural spirit, and growing up in the new body of the newborn,
calling themselves re-incarnated; and these drujas professed that when they previously
lived on earth they were great kings, or queens, or philosophers.

12. And they taught as their master, Osiris, the false, did: That there was no higher heaven
than here on the earth, and that man must be re-incarnated over and over until the flesh
became immortal. Not all of these spirits drove hence the natural spirit; but many merely
engrafted themselves on the same body; and whilst such persons lived, these spirits lived
with them and dwelt with them day and night; not knowing more than their mortal
companion. And when such person died, behold, the druja went and engrafted itself on
another child, and lived and dwelt with it in the same way; and thus continuing,
generation after generation.

13. And because of these indulgences many of the spirits came in sar’gis in the families of
the Eguptians; eating and drinking with them corporeally; yea, and even doing things
whereof no man may speak, whereby dire disease seized upon the flesh of mortals;
and their blood and their flesh became inhabited with vermin. The people became idlers
and vagrants; the lands were not tilled, and the places of learning became deserted ruins.