{"id":1002,"date":"2020-02-08T00:22:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T00:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2020-02-09T00:22:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T00:22:55","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-saturday-february-8th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/02\/08\/lectionary-readings-for-saturday-february-8th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Saturday, February 8th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Book of Apollo, Son of Jehovih<\/strong>. Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3<\/span><\/p>\n

BEING THE HEAVENLY ADMINISTRATION OF APOLLO, AN ETHEREAN GOD.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 1<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Apollo, Son of Jehovih, resident of Pti’mus, in etherea, and God of Suf’ad and Don’ga
\nand Tah, in the South Province of Buru, Orian Chief, controller of vortices, said:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. I, Apollo, once a mortal, proclaim: First, wisdom, peace and patience unto all men, and
\ncomprehensive judgment whereof I speak; second, to perceive the reason of things, as to
\nwhat seemeth to have been, and of what cometh after.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. For the Great Spirit is all Harmony and Perfection, abounding in time and in worlds to
\naccomplish all possible imaginings; wherefore, be ye magnified in conception, not
\njudging by the little understanding of mortals.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. So that he that asserteth harmony being more to the order of Jehovih than that which is
\nill-formed or out of time, hath little reason to prove his assertion before a wise man. As
\none may assert that ripe fruit is nearer perfection than that which is green, which assertion
\nis self-evident without proof, so, in the understanding of Gods in the management of
\nworlds, are things past and present, not things past and present in fact, but more like the
\nimmature and the mature.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Since, then, man perceiveth that words, at best, are but slow and coarse representations
\nof the soul’s conception of things, how much farther distant lieth a God’s wisdom
\nbeyond the reach of mortal understanding! Remember, O man, that couldst thou in a
\nmoment of time recollect all thou hadst ever learned thou wouldst be wise indeed.
\nWert thou in tune with thyself, such would be thy wisdom. To advance in such
\ndirection, whereby man becometh attuned, first with himself, then with his immediate
\nsurroundings, then with the magnitude of worlds, and then with Jehovih, so that he
\nmoveth, acteth, and comprehendeth harmoniously, is to become one with the Father.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Which condition awaiteth all men, and is called in high heaven, Nirvana, because,
\nto him that hath attained it, things past and things to come are as an open book.
\nHe can look back to his own beginning in the world, and even beyond, and
\nwithersoever he directeth his eye, he can see and hear even as if the matter now were.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Marvel not, O man, that the Gods reveal the words and signs of things long since
\nperished corporeally; the proofs he could give, thou couldst not understand, for the basis
\nof spiritual entity lieth not within the measure of the corporeal senses. Nevertheless,
\nJehovih hath given thee comparisons; as a portrait of a man showeth his looks even after
\nhis corporeal body hath perished; and yet, the picture is but a representative. To the
\nspirit, a corporeal body is but a representative, being a manifested production of a spirit.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. As out of corporeal things a new thing is produced and born into the world, so out of
\nJehovih is born the spirit of man; neither leadeth the corporeal the spirit, nor the spirit the
\ncorporeal; but Jehovih doeth all. Think not, then, that when the corporeal body is dead
\nand moldereth back to original elements, that in like manner the spirit of man will resolve
\nitself back into Jehovih, for spirit is not bound by similar rules. As the corporeal body
\ngroweth by aggregating to itself, so not so groweth the spirit of man, but by the opposite,
\nwhich is giving away.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>9. Remember, O man, the more thou puttest forth thy soul to give light and wisdom to
\nothers, the more thou receivest; wherein thou shalt comprehend in the reason of things
\neverlasting life to the spirit of man. So also, to him that desireth to comprehend Jehovih,
\nlet him describe the All Highest constantly. To him that desireth to comprehend the
\netherean worlds, the homes of spirits long risen in Nirvana, let him describe them. Fear
\nnot, O man, that thou shalt err; all the imagery thou canst devise is surpassed millions of
\ntimes in the magnitude of the Father’s kingdoms. Till thou canst shoot an arrow without
\nstriking the air, fear not for thy weak thoughts shooting amiss in Jehovih’s worlds.
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Chapter 2<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1. I, Apollo, earth-born, of the continent Pan, submerged by Aph, the Orian Chief, by
\nJehovih’s command, proclaim in the name of the Father, Creator of worlds, peace and
\nwisdom unto all nations and tribes of men: First, against all vanity and self-conceit in the
\nsouls of men, wherein every cycle asserteth itself wise and great and learned, and the
\nancients, fools.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. For the evidence of wisdom lieth not in learning one thing only, but in the adaptation of
\nman to Jehovih and His works. In which measure, the modern and the ancient stand not
\nupon their judgment in the matter, but by Jehovih’s.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. For if the ancient was not perfect in his place, neither art thou, O man, of this day. But
\nbefore the Gods are all the ages adapted as Jehovih created them; judge not Him, for thy
\njudgment is limited. That which was profitable to the soul of man, the Father revealed to
\nthe ancients; that which is profitable to the soul of man to-day, revealeth He this day.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. For which reason I, His Son, am come to fulfill my labor, even as all men, in time,
\nmust complete that which hath been assigned them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. To rebuke vanity and self-conceit in them that perceive not wisdom in things long past,
\nbut applaud themselves without just measure before Jehovih. Wherein the Gods perceive
\ntheir vanity, and pity them, hoping rather to exalt their minds, that they may learn to
\nperceive the Father’s hand manifested in all things.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Turn thine eyes inward, O man, and look at the spirit of things; make thyself as a God
\nlooking down on a new earth, where man hath been quickened into life and attained to
\nstrength and learning. Behold his palaces and temples; his work in stone and iron, and
\ngold and silver; his knowledge of the sun and moon and stars; with written books to read;
\nwith clothes for the body and shoes for the feet. With great generals, and armies of
\nsoldiers; and with the land cultivated.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Are these civilized? And war abounding! By what right hast thou made thyself a judge,
\nO man! Who hath measured the inhabitants of the earth and found them pure and wise?
\nDo more people now live on the land in peace and happiness than in many of the cycles
\npast? Because thou art different in many excellencies, thou shalt also remember that many
\ngreat inventions are forgotten. The world hath been peopled over many times, and many
\ntimes laid desolate.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Who hath been the chief enemy to man? Who is his chief enemy to-day? Is it not
\nthyself? Think not, O man, that because a few people perceive the Higher Light the world
\nis wise and good before the Gods. For in all ages there have been a few. Yea, to-day,
\nthere are a few more in number than in the ancient days. And this is the sum of the<\/span>
\nenlightenment of the world.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Hear me, O man of earth, and ye angels of heaven: I proclaim harmony, symmetry and
\nmusic. I am of the days of the fountain of these talents descending to mortals. I was as a
\nshapely stone in Jehovih’s edifice, and by hard toil a fashioner of the flesh mold of man
\nand woman.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. As the ear of one man heareth music, and he crieth out with delight: A tune! a tune!
\nAnd as the ear of another man heareth music, and he cannot discern, and he crieth out: A
\nnoise! a hideous noise! Wherefore, then, shall ye not judge them, and say: The one hath
\nan ear for music, and the other not? The one is one with the music; the other, being
\ndiscordant himself, declareth there is no tune, but only noise. To which will ye give
\npreference in judgment as to music?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Who hath not beholden Jehovih, the All Person? Who is it that crieth out: I behold
\nHim not? No harmony, no symmetry, no music, no complete whole? And to which will
\nye give preference in judgment? Is not the judgment of the perceiver higher than he who
\nperceiveth not?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. This declare I of Jehovih, that in all ages there are many who perceive the All Person,
\nand many who deny Him. If, then, the lack of an ear for music maketh a man dumb to a
\ntune, is it not the lack of spiritual harmony that that causeth man to perceive not the
\neverlasting presence of Jehovih, the All Person?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Hear me, O angels and men: Can a man learn to sing who heareth not the harmony of
\na tune? How much less, then, can man, or the spirits of the dead, harmonize with the
\nEternal Whole if they perceive Him not?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 3<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1. I, Apollo, Jehovih’s Son, proclaim an age when man on earth considered not harmony,
\nnor symmetry, nor music, as Gods!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. And Jehovih’s voice came to me in the etherean firmament, and place of Pti’mus,
\nsaying:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Apollo, My Son, thou God of Su’ad, God of Don’ga, God of Tah, behold the red star,
\nthe earth, she cometh through thy dominions. Go thou to her with thy hosts, a sufficient
\nnumber, and give her a new God, and call his name Apollo.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Behold, neither men nor angels on the red star comprehend the harmony of My works;
\nand because of their own disharmony they deny Me, being blind to My Person. Go thou,
\nMy Son, and make them idolaters of harmony, symmetry and music, for a long
\nseason, that they may become organically attuned from the time of their birth upward.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. I said: I perceive Thy wisdom, O Jehovih. And I called together a hundred millions of
\nThy sons and daughters, and told them what Thou hadst said. With one accord, they said:
\nWe have examined the red star since the time of Wan, and we perceive truly, the time
\nhath come for thy labor, O Apollo.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. I said: Send an oniy’yah to the heaven of the earth and deliver her God and Lords and
\nall persons capable of the second resurrection. And say ye to God and his Lords: Thus
\nsaith Apollo, Son of Jehovih, and God of three etherean worlds: Greeting in the name of
\nthe Father, and love unto you all. For your glorious work I have assigned seven Teres and
\nDon’ga. Thither gather ye your hosts, where is prepared a place of rest and comfort. The<\/span>
\nearth and her heaven shall be left in darkness for thirty of her days, having neither God
\nnor Lords.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. So my legions departed for the earth in an etherean ship of fire, led by Tu’ain, Goddess
\nof Proe’king, a place of great learning in the etherean mountains of Horatanad; and they
\ndelivered according to my decrees, and the earth was without a God and Lords for thirty
\ndays.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. And the voice of Jehovih came to me again, saying: Hear thy Creator, O My Son, thou
\nthat sprangest from the land long since submerged, who has spanned many of My worlds,
\nbehold, the legions of Sue and his mighty resurrections are still preserved to mortals and
\nangels earth-bound: Of the Gods and Goddesses who danced and sang before men; and of
\nthe uneven match betwixt spirits and Gods.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Profiting in this, the people of the red star have become rich in rites and ceremonies,
\nand preferring the swift-footed to the slow, the nimble to the clumsy, the loo’is have well
\nlaid out the road to thy success.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. So, I perceived beforehand how I should proceed when I landed in the lower heaven
\nand her earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. When the time came, I departed, still remembering my native star with well treasured
\npride. And that all things should express the labor Jehovih put upon me, my oniy’yah
\nexcelled in beauty all other etherean vessels that had ever descended to the earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. How shall I comprehend Thy magnitude, O Jehovih? What is the journey of a God
\nbefore Thee? We build a ship for a hundred millions, and are vain of its size and
\nbeauty; but when we launch out into Thy etherean realms, we fain would hide our faces
\nin shame of our vanity. We sail through a thousand of Thy crystal worlds and talk of
\ngreat distances, but the mirror of Thy boundless creation lieth still before us. We
\nrecall the red star, our native home, a single gem amidst the countless millions Thou
\nhast cast into the universe, and we are speechless because of Thy Awful Extent.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Wherein hast Thou not excelled Thyself, O Jehovih! In one moment, we behold Thy
\nVastness; in another, Thy Microscopic Hand in the smallest ethe’ic wave, and in the spear
\nof grass down on the swift corporeal stars. We applaud Thee for Thy handiwork, and yet
\nere our thoughts have overrun the smallest part, Thou turnest our eyes inward to the soul
\nof things, an endless wonder.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. How shall I comprehend Thy designs, O Jehovih? Thou drivest me back to the time
\nThy angels came and stood man upright, saying: Be thou a man; and be thou a woman!
\nBut they would not.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Again and again, Thy pitying hand stood them up, and Thy voice came, saying: Talk,
\nO man! Come, thou shalt help to perfect thyself. But man was slow in perceiving
\nwisdom; that which came to his flesh he loved.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. I remember the earth, O Father! Men and women with long hair hanging down; and
\nhands with claw nails, fierce and war-like. And hair in tufts and short-curled. Whose eyes
\nwere drawn down like a lion’s, and mouth wide and falling open, like a dog that is tired.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Therefore Thou hast called me, O Jehovih; and I perceive Thy double purpose: For a
\nman left alone would select and mate, and evolve to terrible war! And Thou storest here
\nan idol to unfit him for cruel deeds.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. So, from Thy etherean realms, wherein for fifty thousand years Thy Gods and
\nGoddesses had trained me to comprehend the discipline of Thy created heavens, I came,<\/span>
\ndescending, down, down to the red star, where Thou first quickened me into being, that I
\nmight fulfill Thy mandates.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. Thy hand took me up, Thy hand sent me down; I had learned not to fear; the tree of
\nfaith had grown in me; I knew the secret of All Power. As a mortal goeth into a dark
\ncavern, where the air is damp and unacceptable to the nose, so came my hosts, O Jehovih,
\nout of etherea into the vortex of the earth, the dull atmosphere.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. Thy voice came to me, saying: Go around the earth with thy oniy’yah, My Son. Stir up
\nthe atmosphereans; they that know no higher heaven. Behold, they have mutinied against
\nMy God and Lords; have rejected My preferred wisdom. Their delight is in war and the
\ndeeds of mortals. As men on earth gather round to witness beasts in battle, so gather these
\ncountless millions of spirits to witness kingdoms of mortals in war, and fire, and plunder.
\nAnd by their presence urge men to cruelty and cunning horrors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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