{"id":1043,"date":"2020-02-18T22:16:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2020-02-18T22:16:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:16:31","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-february-19th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/02\/18\/lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-february-19th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Wednesday, February 19th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Weekday Sabbath<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lord\u2019s Fourth Book<\/strong>. Chapter 1, Chapter 2<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">BEING COTEMPORANEOUS WITH THE BOOK OF THOR, CYCLE OF THOR, SON OF JEHOVIH. AS<br \/>\nTHE LATTER BOOK IS OF THE HIGHER AND THE LOWER HEAVENS, SO IS THE LORDS\u2019 BOOK<br \/>\nOF THE LOWER HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, BOTH BEING FOR THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 1<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. By altars and temples, and by idols and images, and by painted signs and engraved<br \/>\nwords, God foresaw that the knowledge of one generation could be handed down to the<br \/>\nnext. And though all these things are false in fact, as a written word is not a word, but an<br \/>\nimage of an idea which hath been spoken, so by symbols conveyed God the living truth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. God said: Behold, with my sacred people have I established myself in written words.<br \/>\nNow hath it come to pass that all the races of men on earth shall be made to know me.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. God commanded man to make stone and wooden images, and engravings also, of<br \/>\neverything upon the earth; and man so made them according to his own knowledge.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. God said: As every living creature hath a name, so shall the image thereof and<br \/>\nthe engraving thereof have the same name. And even so shall it be with all things<br \/>\non the earth, and in the waters thereof, and in the air above the earth; the image and<br \/>\nthe engravings shall have the same names, even as the real things themselves.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. And God sent his angels down to man, to inspire him in the workmanship of images<br \/>\nand engravings, and man thus accomplished the commandments of God.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. And these were the first writings since the flood, other than such as were kept secret<br \/>\namongst the I&#8217;hins. And of this manner were the writings, to wit:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. A picture of a man was a man; a picture of a tree was a tree; a picture of a bird was a<br \/>\nbird; and even so was everything represented by its own name and image.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. Then God said: When thou hast made the picture of a spear, behold it is a spear. And<br \/>\nwhen thou desirest to show which way a man goeth, thou shalt add to the graven image<br \/>\nthe likeness of a spear; and the way it pointeth, shall show the way man goeth. Even so<br \/>\nshalt thou express the going of everything on earth and in heaven.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. Thus man made a written language, and in every region of the earth. By many men<br \/>\nwere these things done; according to the light of God upon them, so accomplished they<br \/>\nthe written languages of thousands of tribes of men.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. God said: This shall be called the Panic language (Ah-ce-o-ga), because it is made of<br \/>\nearthly images. And, in after ages, whoever desireth to find the first written words of<br \/>\nman, shall have recourse to the pictures of all things on earth, and in the waters, and in<br \/>\nthe air above the earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. God said: As in the olden time man named all things according to their own spoken<br \/>\nwords and sounds uttered, so in the days of Thor came the written words of everything on<br \/>\nearth and in heaven.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. When man had written the name of all things, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">one <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">only had he not written, even the<br \/>\nname of his Creator.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. God said: Even that also shalt thou write. Then man inquired: O Lord, how can I find<br \/>\na word to express the Creator?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. God said: Many tribes have I raised upon the earth, and, behold, they have all written<br \/>\nthe names of all things, save only the Creator. Go to, therefore, and write thou His name<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">also.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. Man said: Alas, O my God! I know no name, save the names I have already made. If I<br \/>\ncould hear the Creator, or see Him, then could I write His name.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. God said: Thou hast named the wind (wh-sh!), which thou hast not seen. Name thou<br \/>\nthy Creator. And His name shall comprehend all things, far and near, seen and unseen.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. Then man drew a circle and called it O, for it represented that which was without<br \/>\nbeginning or end, and which contained all within it. Then man drew a line cutting through<br \/>\nthe circle from east to west, to represent the light of the east traveling to the west. Then<br \/>\nman drew a line from below upward, cutting the circle at right angles with the horizontal,<br \/>\nto represent the one road of all things, from the bottom upward forever. The first line<br \/>\nman called E, for it was the same as the wind speaketh in the leaves. But the second<br \/>\nline he called IH, for it represented that unseen shaft that cutteth all things in twain.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. And when man had completed the engraving, he called it E-O-IH!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">19. God said: In this, thy symbol, thou hast found the way of a true square (true cross) and<br \/>\nthe four quarters of the world. (See tablet Se&#8217;moin, Book of Saphah.)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">20. Keep thou His name and the image thereof a secret betwixt the rab&#8217;bahs and thy God.<br \/>\nNeither shalt thou utter it aloud, for it is sacred upon the earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">21. Betwixt thee and thy Creator standeth thy God, who is Lord of heaven and earth.<br \/>\nBehold, I am the key of life and death; through me, thy Lord, shalt thou unlock all the<br \/>\nmysteries of heaven and earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">22. Neither shall my rab&#8217;bah, nor my prophets, call on the name of any spirit, save the<br \/>\nLord, who is God. The words I give corporeally I have recorded in heaven; neither can<br \/>\nman alter my records and make them accord with that which is written above. But in the<br \/>\nlapse of time I provide seers and prophets, to whom I can reveal to mortals the things of<br \/>\nheaven.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">23. This have I spoken to Jehovih for thee: Man shall measure Thy hand upon him;<br \/>\nremember Thy eye upon him; seek for Thy wisdom within him; and be thankful for Thy<br \/>\ngood things before him; to consider the little good of them that deny Thee; the conceit of<br \/>\nthem that claim to be self-made; and the folly of uttering other glories than Thine, and yet<br \/>\nto mention them not; for these are the attaining of wisdom.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 2<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. The Lord came down to man on the earth, and spake to man in two ways: By the voice,<br \/>\nas man speaketh; and by the spirit, as soul answereth to soul.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. The Lord said: The voice of man is air in motion; by the mouth of man cometh the<br \/>\nword of knowledge.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. But back of the voice; back of the air in motion; back of the mouth, which giveth<br \/>\nvoice, there lieth the soul, which it is that causeth man to think of speaking. And the soul<br \/>\nlieth in the ocean of the Creator, Who is God of all.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. The Lord said: That that speaketh to thy soul, O man, teaching thee wisdom and good<br \/>\nworks; reproving thee for thy faults, and enchanting thee with the glories of all created<br \/>\nthings, is the voice of thy Creator. And that is the road by which the Lord thy God cometh<br \/>\nto thee.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. The Lord said: Behold, man hath attained to written knowledge; now shall he have<br \/>\nbooks, and learn to keep records, after the manner of the angels in heaven. Then God sent<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">angels down to man, speaking both by the soul and by the voice; in different places and to<br \/>\ndifferent rab&#8217;bahs, teaching them how to make books of skins, and of bark, and of cloth,<br \/>\nfor the graven words and images which he had taught man.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. In these days the lands of Jaffeth and Shem and Ham were inhabited by millions of<br \/>\nI&#8217;huans and Ghans; but the countries lying between them were inhabited by I&#8217;huans only.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. And God spake to the people of Ham, saying: Behold, there are two other countries<br \/>\ninhabited by kin of your kin, flesh of your flesh, and they are Ghans also. And they speak<br \/>\nand write with Panic words, even as ye do.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. And the Hamites inquired: How far are the two other countries? Where are they?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. The Lord said: Gather together a thousand men and women, and I will lead you to your<br \/>\nbrethren, whose forefathers were also saved from the flood; saved by the sacred little<br \/>\npeople, the I&#8217;hins. Provide ye oxen and asses and all things requisite for a journey of four<br \/>\nyears, and I will lead you.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. The Hamites obeyed God, and provided themselves as commanded; into two<br \/>\ncompanies of a thousand each equipped they themselves, and started on their journey for<br \/>\nJaffeth and Shem.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. Then spake God to the people of Jaffeth, saying: Behold, there are two other countries<br \/>\ninhabited by kin of your kin, flesh of your flesh, and they are Ghans also. And they speak<br \/>\nand write with Panic words, even as ye do.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. The Jaffeth&#8217;yans said: How far are the two other countries? Where are they?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. The Lord said: Gather together a thousand men and women, and I will lead you to<br \/>\nyour brethren, whose forefathers were also saved from the flood; saved by the sacred little<br \/>\npeople, the I&#8217;hins. Provide ye in all things requisite for a journey of four years, and I will<br \/>\nlead you.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. The Jaffeth&#8217;yans obeyed God, and provided themselves as commanded; into two<br \/>\ncompanies of a thousand each equipped they themselves and started for Ham and Shem.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. Then spake the Lord to the people of Shem in the same way, telling them of Jaffeth<br \/>\nand Ham; and they also equipped themselves in two companies and started for Ham and<br \/>\nJaffeth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. Thus provided God these three separate peoples to go and visit one another, and all in<br \/>\nthe same period of time. And God said unto them, ere they started: Very fierce and savage<br \/>\nare the I&#8217;huans who inhabit the wilderness on the way. Behold, they eat the flesh of both<br \/>\nman and beast. But they will not harm the I&#8217;hins; therefore, O my beloved, on your long<br \/>\njourney take with you two score of I&#8217;hins. Through the I&#8217;hins can the Lord your God speak<br \/>\nall languages, even the language of the barbarians, the I&#8217;huans.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. Leave all things in the hands of the Lord God.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. So it came to pass, after a journey of four years, the migrants from each country came<br \/>\nto the place of their destination. And by their written and spoken words knew they one<br \/>\nanother; and they called themselves the three children of the arc of Noe.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">19. And the Lord said unto them in each of the countries whither they had come: Provide<br \/>\nrecords unto the work of God; for these journeys shall be remembered to the end of the<br \/>\nworld.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">20. And in all these countries there were made images of stone and copper, and<br \/>\nengravings thereon of the children of Noe, and of the flood, and of the sacred tribes,<br \/>\nShem, Ham and Jaffeth.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">21. God said: These shall be preserved as the first written names of these lands. And it<br \/>\nwas so.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekday Sabbath The Lord\u2019s Fourth Book. Chapter 1, Chapter 2 BEING COTEMPORANEOUS WITH THE BOOK OF THOR, CYCLE OF THOR, SON OF JEHOVIH. AS THE LATTER BOOK IS OF THE HIGHER AND THE LOWER HEAVENS, SO IS THE LORDS\u2019 BOOK OF THE LOWER HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, BOTH BEING FOR THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME. &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/02\/18\/lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-february-19th-2020\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[46,40,39,34,36,35,38,33,41,31,32,47,50,48,44,45,43,42],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-lightofgod","4":"post-1043","6":"format-standard","7":"category-lectionary-readings","8":"post_tag-calendar","9":"post_tag-daily-readings","10":"post_tag-eloih","11":"post_tag-faithism","12":"post_tag-faithist-church","13":"post_tag-faithists","14":"post_tag-jehovih","15":"post_tag-kosmon-era","16":"post_tag-lectionary-readings","17":"post_tag-oahspe","18":"post_tag-oahspe-bible","19":"post_tag-observances","20":"post_tag-religion-of-light","21":"post_tag-sabbath","22":"post_tag-united-covenant","23":"post_tag-united-covenant-of-light","24":"post_tag-yeshua","25":"post_tag-yoshu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}