{"id":1143,"date":"2020-03-17T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2020-03-17T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:25:18","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-tuesday-march-17th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/03\/17\/lectionary-readings-for-tuesday-march-17th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Tuesday, March 17th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Book of Fragapatti Chapter 31, Chapter 32<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 31<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. After Yima&#8217;s appointment by Fragapatti, he had come to these regions; and, finding<br \/>\ngreat darkness upon both spirits and mortals, he besought Jehovih, to know the cause and<br \/>\ncure thereof.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. The Voice of Jehovih came to Yima, saying: Whether spirits or mortals, they seek<br \/>\nrather to obey their own self-desires than My commandments. Behold, I sent them<br \/>\nApollo, and he gave them intercourse betwixt the two worlds, angels and mortals.<br \/>\nAnd for a season they held up their heads and remembered Me and My kingdoms.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. But presently, they turned everything upside down, and built on their own account. I<br \/>\nhad shown them that by industry and perseverance they could attain to knowledge and<br \/>\npower. But because mortals discovered that prophecy could come from the spirits<br \/>\nof the dead, they ceased to perfect themselves, and they grew up in idleness.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. The angels loved not to labor, to achieve My exalted heavens, being contented with the<br \/>\nlowest. And they likewise fell in darkness, forgetting Me and My higher places above.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. I called out to My Son, Osiris, saying: Go thou down to the earth and her heavens, and<br \/>\nbuild them up, in My name. Yea, thou shalt wall them apart, that there shall be no<br \/>\ncommunion betwixt the two worlds, save to My chosen.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. And Osiris came, and fulfilled my commandments; to mortals he provided them that no<br \/>\nspirit could come to them; and, as for the spirits that infested the earth about, he drove<br \/>\nthem away and colonized them, and he cut them off from the earth. And for a season,<br \/>\nmortals prospered under My judgments; and they sought to improve the talents I created<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">withal.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. But again have they confounded My judgments and perverted My laws. Every man on<br \/>\nthe earth hath a philosophy of his own; every spirit in these heavens hath a philosophy of<br \/>\nhis own. And there is no uniformity between any of them. Hear Me then, My Son;<br \/>\nthou shalt not teach as Osiris did, nor yet as Apollo, but pursue a mean betwixt the two.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. Thou shalt select them, permitting certain spirits to return to mortals, and permitting<br \/>\ncertain mortals to attain su&#8217;is and sar&#8217;gis, and to see and commune with spirits. But thou<br \/>\nshalt provide them in judgment; making the process of inter-communion a secret amongst<br \/>\nmortals. For in this thou shalt shut off the drujas of heaven and the druks on earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. Behold, My Son Samati will come this way; labor thou with him and Zarathustra. Into<br \/>\nGod&#8217;s hands have I given my decrees; he shall build on the earth. Build thou in heaven.<br \/>\nAs he buildeth for mortals, build thou for the spirits of the intermediate world. But keep<br \/>\nthou open the doorway to My holy places in the heavens above.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 32<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. Yima inquired of Jehovih, and the Voice answered him, saying:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. Go thou from place to place in these heavens, and prove thy power. To the ignorant,<br \/>\npower is antecedent in gaining the judgment; after power, wisdom. The fool saith: What<br \/>\ncanst thou do that I cannot? But when he seeth the power that cometh from My hand, he<br \/>\nopeneth his ears and eyes. To teach men and angels to unite, how have they not failed on<br \/>\nall hands!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. Mortals have said: It is good to be good, but it is not practicable. They have said: It<br \/>\nis wise to be wise, but wisdom runneth in a thousand roadways; every man for himself.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. The angels of these regions have said: It is good for us to unite into kingdoms; to have<br \/>\nGods and Lords; but who can unite us? Shall we sell our liberty to one person? But they<br \/>\nwill not unite; they dwell in inharmony. Every one taketh the earnings of another; the<br \/>\nprofit of one is the injury of others; they are barren of united good.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. Jehovih said: One kingdom may have many good men and many good women, but be<br \/>\nof no good as a kingdom. I measure not the individuals, but the entire household. I<br \/>\njudge the virtue of a kingdom by its combined harvest delivered unto My keeping.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. When a kingdom is aggregating to itself more wisdom and virtue, the amount of its<br \/>\nincrease is My harvest. When a kingdom cannot retain its own members, it is falling away<br \/>\nfrom Me. The uprightness of its few is as nothing in My sight. The secret of the power of<br \/>\na kingdom lieth in its capacity to aggregate in My name and obey My commandments.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. For a hundred days Yima went through the lower heavens, displaying the miracles of<br \/>\nthe upper heavens; and his hosts, many of whom traveled with him, enlisted pupils,<br \/>\nparticularly collecting the spirits of young children. And in a hundred days he had many<br \/>\nmillions of spirits, abracadabras, mostly helpless wanderers.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. With these he repaired to Astoreth, and made ready to found his kingdom. Jehovih<br \/>\nspake to him, saying: Fear not, My son, because of the helplessness of thy subjects. He<br \/>\nwho would start a new kingdom is wise in choosing none who have hobbies of their own.<br \/>\nWhosoever goeth forth in My name, I will be with him.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. Yima inquired of Jehovih who should be appointed assistant God, and the Voice<br \/>\nanswered: Thulae. So Yima appointed Thulae; and he made Habal chief marshal of the<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">capital.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. Again the Voice of Jehovih came to Yima, saying: Thou shalt appoint unto Shem one<br \/>\nhundred Lords, and they shall have dominion over mortals. Hear thou the Voice of thy<br \/>\nCreator: Through My Son, Zarathustra, will I establish temples to My Lords and Gods;<br \/>\nand thou shalt so provide thy heavenly kingdom, that thy Lords shall inhabit the temples,<br \/>\ncommuning with the rab&#8217;bahs, who shall be called God-irs; but the communion betwixt<br \/>\nspirits and mortals shall be known only to the God-irs, and to the sub-priests under them.<br \/>\nBut mortals shall be left to believe that these fathers have attained to spirit communion by<br \/>\ngreat purity and wisdom.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. Likewise, when drujas manifest to mortals, it shall not be countenanced but as a mark<br \/>\nof evil, raised up against truth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. And when thou hast established thy kingdom, thou shalt cut off the supplies of the<br \/>\ndrujas, so they will become borrowers from thy people. In this manner, they will in time<br \/>\nconsent to labor.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. Yima then appointed one hundred Lords, who became as the roots to the tree of<br \/>\nheaven. The Aoshoan Lords were:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. Ithwa, Yaztas, Micros, Jube, Zarust, Hom, Paoiris, Vadeve, Niasha, Cope, Drhon,<br \/>\nYus&#8217;ak, Cood&#8217;ayay and Thracton.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. The Thestasias Lords were: Kashvre, Tusht, Yain, Amesh and Amesha; Armait,<br \/>\nWai&#8217;iv, Vahois, Vstavia and Comek.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. The general Lords were called Ashem, with voice; that is to say, Ashem-vohu, Lords<br \/>\nin chief, given for the kingdoms of the Sun, in the land of Shem. They were: Shnaota,<br \/>\nZathias, Mutu, Aoirio, Kaeshas, Cter&#8217;ay, Shahkya, Thraetem, Gahnaetobirischae,<br \/>\nHabarshya, Paitis&#8217;gomya, Huiyus, Hakdodt, Anerana, Tibalath, Kever, Darunasya, Hors,<br \/>\nMaidoyeshemo, Runnas, Gayomoratischi, Ba&#8217;ahraya, Zartushta, Kai&#8217;boryawich-<br \/>\n&#8216;wich&#8217;toe&#8217;benyas and Cpitama. And Yima made these twenty-five Lords controllers of the<br \/>\nVoice, with mortals, to take the place of Samati after the death and ascension of<br \/>\nZarathustra, for which reason they were called the Ashem-vohu. (See the Vedic<br \/>\nScriptures.)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. The Lords of farmers and herdsmen were: Gaomah, Hoshag, Tamur, Jamshed,<br \/>\nFreden, Minochihr-bani and Hus.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. The Lords of sea-faring men were: Thaetas, Mirh-jan, Nyas, Khaftras, Thivia, Agreft,<br \/>\nArdus&#8217;lor, Tanafar, Avoitas, Marganesiachta, Hoakastanya and Vartuan.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">19. The Lordesses of births and mothers, the Hotche&#8217;che, were: Kaviti, Way&#8217;huts, Howd,<br \/>\nAnechorhaite, Juveas, Wisseta, Hopaeny, Ctnevirchow, Aivipohu, Cadhan, Hucrova,<br \/>\nDion, Balkwoh and Gamosyi.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">20. The Lords of buildings were: Irathama, Haira&#8217;thracna, Heidas, Hutu, Coy&#8217;gaga, HairaWahti, Vivi&#8217;seeon, Muta&#8217;hagga, Kaoyas, Macyo, Aims, Hodo, Trusivi, Verecopagga and<br \/>\nSuyi.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">21. The Lords of time-keeping, who had dominion of the change of watch, were:<br \/>\nCopurasastras, Vaitimohu and Howitchwak.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">22. Jehovih spake to Yima, saying: In this day will I bless thy labor. Because mortals<br \/>\nhave ceased to believe in immortality, they have shut off the intercourse with drujas. For<br \/>\nwhich reason thou shalt establish pure communion with thy pure Lords, and none other.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">23. Yima sent his Lords to their several places, and every Lord took with him a thousand<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">attendant angels. Yima said to them, before they departed: See to it, O ye Lords; in your<br \/>\nseveral places stir the people up. And wherever ye find kings or queens or generals<br \/>\nsurrounded by spirits that urge them on in their affairs, cut off those spirits, leaving the<br \/>\nmortals destitute of inspiration, and their kingdoms and armies will become disorganized<br \/>\nand helpless.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">24. And whenever (the mortals) Samati and Zarathustra come to a city, go ye also,<br \/>\nlaboring with them. And when Zarathustra holdeth up his hands and saith: O Father,<br \/>\nLight of Thy Light! gather ye of the substance around about, and shield him with a wall of<br \/>\nfire. And if Zarathustra say: O Father, Ormazd, give Thy children food, then shall ye cast<br \/>\ndown, from the air above, fish and fruit.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">25. And if a king or a captain raise a hand against Zarathustra, gather ye about him and<br \/>\nshield him. And if a man draw a sword against Zarathustra, catch ye the blade and break<br \/>\nit to pieces.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">26. Jehovih spake to Yima, saying: The time will come when the present mortal<br \/>\nkingdoms will fall. But the followers of Zarathustra, who will succeed them under<br \/>\nthe Zarathustrian law, shall be protected, even, as ye, during dawn, protect Zarathustra.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">27. For which reason, thy Lords shall raise up other Lords to take their places after the<br \/>\nascent of this dawn. And it shall come to pass that All Light and All Truth and All<br \/>\nSuccess shall come to mortals through the priests (rab&#8217;bahs), who shall succeed<br \/>\nZarathustra. But as for the kings of great cities, who will not accept My Light, they shall<br \/>\ngo down in darkness, and their kingdoms shall fall to pieces.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">28. Yima having established his Lords, now turned his attention to the heavenly<br \/>\nkingdoms of hadas.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book of Fragapatti Chapter 31, Chapter 32 Chapter 31 1. 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