{"id":1220,"date":"2020-04-11T23:08:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2020-04-11T23:08:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T23:08:18","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-sunday-april-12th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/04\/11\/lectionary-readings-for-sunday-april-12th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Sunday, April 12th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holy Memorial Day<\/em><\/p>\n

Book of Divinity Chapter 11, Chapter 12<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 11<\/span><\/p>\n

1. The next dan was five hundred years, and God and his heavenly kingdoms prospered
\nbefore Jehovih. But as to the Lord’s kingdoms on earth, and as to mortal kingdoms and
\nempires, not much light was manifested in them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Ahura, who had thus falsely taken, and was known by, the name of Ahura’Mazda,
\nestablished Lords to rule over mortals. And these Lords were in direct opposition
\nto God’s Lords; for the latter taught the higher heavens and the All Person, Jehovih,
\nor Ormazd, according to the language of mortals. But Ahura’s Lords taught only
\none heavenly kingdom, which was Ahura’s, called Ctusk, the All Holy Highest Heaven.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. God’s Lords inspired mortals to everlasting resurrection; Ahura’s Lords inspired
\nmortals to Ahura’s kingdom, and there the end. And since mortals had built temples for
\ntheir priests (rab’bahs), who were gifted with su’is, the spirits congregated in the temples,<\/span>
\nand oft appeared in sar’gis, teaching openly their several doctrines. And the ashars that
\nlabored for Ahura extolled the glory and the delight of Ctusk, and the wonderful majesty
\nand power of Ahura. But the ashars of God’s hosts inspired and taught of the Great Spirit,
\nUnapproachable.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. For five hundred years were God’s hosts confronted with this opposition; and it came to
\npass that mortals, especially in Vindyu, were divided into two great classes of
\nworshippers. And just before God’s successor came into dominion, he propounded the
\nmatter in Diva; whereupon all the members spake at great length. Afterward, Div
\ndecreed:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Whatsoever is worshipped, having comprehensible form or figure, is an idol. He that
\nworshippeth an idol, whether of stone or wood, or whether it be a man or an angel,
\nsinneth against the Creator. This was given unto all of God’s Lords, and by them to
\nthe ashars, and commanded to be taught to mortals by inspiration and otherwise.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. When the time of dan came there were seven thousand million Brides and Bridegrooms
\nraised up to Jehovih’s emancipated worlds, and the succeeding God and Lords came
\ninto dominion under more favorable auspices, but which were not to continue long.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. The Diva had extended to fourteen members; and God’s Lords had succeeded in
\nsecuring kingdoms in the principal parts of Jaffeth, Vind’yu and Arabin’ya. On the other
\nhand, the emissaries of Ahura, the false, had been most active in extending the kingdom
\nof their idol. Ahura was most cunning with the last Divan act: Instead of interdicting
\nit, he altered it, so it read as followeth, to wit: Whatsoever is worshipped, having
\ncomprehensible form or figure, is an idol. He that worshippeth an idol, whether of
\nstone or wood, or whether it be a man or an angel, sinneth against the All Highest,
\nwho is personated in Ahura’Mazda, the Holy Begotten Son of all created creations!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. And next, Ahura, determined to found a second heaven, decreeing to his emissaries as
\nfolloweth, to wit: Behold Gir-ak-shi, the heavenly region belonging above the lands of
\nHeleste! Thither will I build a new heaven, greater than all other heavens, save Ctusk.
\nAnd when Gir-ak-shi is well founded, I will people it with many millions of mighty
\nangels, Gods and Lords. And my hosts shall descend to the corporeal earth, to the lands
\nof Parsi’e and Arabin’ya, and they shall obsess mortals day and night, and inspire them
\nto go to Heleste, where they shall build great cities and kingdoms unto me and my hosts.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. And when these things are fulfilled, behold, I will send my hosts to Uropa, and build
\nthere also heavenly kingdoms and mortal kingdoms; and when these are established,
\nbehold, I will send into other countries, one after another, until my heavenly kingdoms
\nembrace all places, and until all the earth is mine.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. For I will be God over all, and ye that labor with me shall be my Lords and sub-Gods
\nforever. And my kingdoms and your kingdoms shall be bestowed with glories
\nand ornaments, the like of which never was. Neither shall the Gods of other worlds
\ncome against me or mine to carry away my people. They shall no longer flatter them,
\ncalling them Brides and Bridegrooms to Jehovih, a thing, none can see or comprehend.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. And Ahura and his emissaries set to work to carry out these decrees, and in two
\nhundred years they had inspired the Parsi’e’ans and the Arabin’yans to emigrate by tens
\nof thousands to the land of Heleste, which was inhabited by druks and wanderers, full
\nof wickedness. Ahura inspired his immigrants to fall upon the native druks, and
\ndestroy them. Wherein had come to pass that which Jehovih spake in Mouru, saying:<\/span>
\nThey who cannot be risen by persuasion may be aroused by less scrupulous masters.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. For whilst Ahura’s hosts were slaying the druks of Heleste by tens of thousands, God’s
\nheavenly hosts were receiving their spirits and conducting them away to other
\natmospherean regions.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. These, then, were the divisions of mortals on earth at this time: First, the I’hins, who
\nwere the original Faithists. And they were capable of prophecies and miracles to such an
\nextent that all other people called them the sacred people. Neither did the great warriors
\nof other nations and peoples molest them. The I’hins lived secluded and separate from all
\nother people. Nevertheless, they were the seed of everlasting life on the earth, and the
\nfoundation for raising up prophets and seers unto other peoples. Even as the mother of
\nZarathustra was of the I’hins, so was it with all men and women born into the world with
\nsu’is and sar’gis. For being near Jehovih, they had faith in Him, and Him only. The second
\nrace, equally ancient, was the druks, the barbarian hordes, incapable of inspiration, save
\nfor their stomachs’sake. And though they were told a thousand times: Behold, ye have a
\nspiritual body! they understood not, cared not, and forgot it a moment after. And though it
\nwere said to them: Behold, there is a Great Spirit! they heard it not, nor understood, nor
\nheeded the words. The third race was the I’huans, born betwixt the I’hins and the druks.
\nTo this race, in its early days, a commandment was given by God not to marry with the
\ndruks, and they had maintained that law amongst themselves by the sign of circumcision.
\nThis, then, was the first beginning of persecution against Faithists in Jehovih.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. When Ahura usurped his heavenly kingdom, and appointed guardian angels over
\nmortals, he determined to leave nothing undone in order to overthrow the doctrine of
\nJehovih, the All Person. So he decreed as followeth, to wit:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Since, by the mark of circumcision, they have pride in being Faithists, I will not have
\ncircumcision. After the third generation (one hundred years) whosoever hath this mark
\nupon him is my enemy. He shall be pursued, and no profit shall fall to his lot. Suffer
\nnot little children to be maimed for my sake; rather let them be circumcised in heart.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. And Ahura put no restriction upon his mortal followers marrying, and it came to
\npass that those druks not slain in Heleste married with the worshippers of Ahura.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. And about this same period of time Jehovih brought the earth into a light region for
\ntwo hundred years. And when the Diva was in session, Jehovih’s Voice spake to Div,
\nsaying: Let My Sons be not cast down because of the sins of Ahura; rather be ye wise and
\nappropriate from his wickedness that which will be good in the end. For as it was not
\nlawful for My people to marry with the druks, behold, Ahura hath made a law on his own
\naccount against circumcision, and it shall come to pass that by their sins even druks shall
\nbe raised up to learn of Me and My kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. And it came to pass that a fourth race rose up in the world, and it was mongrel, being
\ndark and short and less noble. The I’huans were red, and brown, and tall, and majestic; the
\nI’hins small, and white, and yellow. And Jehovih put these marks upon His peoples that
\nthe races might be read in thousands of years.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. Ahura perceived this. One of his Lords said unto him: Behold, the marks of su’is are
\nwritten! Then Ahura sought to disprove Jehovih in this. He said:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. Behold, there are two senses to all men, the es and the corpor. When one is in
\nabeyance the other acteth. This is su’is. Call together thy companions, and find a remedy;
\nfor I will prove all things in heaven and earth.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>21. For fifty years Ahura and his hosts tried by other means to have born into the world a
\ngreat prophet and seer, but failed. Ahura said: I know the way of the loo’is: They decoy
\nthe I’hin men to go with the I’huan damsels. But I have sworn there is no Jehovih; how,
\nthen, shall I go to the sacred people? And, after all, such a prophet might prove
\ntreacherous to my kingdom. So Ahura commanded his emissaries to weigh the matter for
\nother fifty years, and then to solve the problem.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. So Ahura’s emissaries inspired thousands of experiments to be made, whereby a
\nprophet or seer could be made amongst the mongrels. And Jehovih suffered them to
\ndiscover that by pressing down the front brain of infants they could be made capable of
\nsu’is. And infants were strapped on boards, and another board strapped on the forehead to
\npress the head flat; and every day the head-board was strapped on anew, tighter and
\ntighter, until the forehead, which holdeth the corporeal judgment, was pressed flat, and
\nthe judgment of the brain driven up into light-perceiving regions at the top of the head.
\n(See Che-guh and Took-shein, B<\/span>OOK OF <\/span>S<\/span>APHAH<\/span>)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. Ahura thus raised up prophets and seers, and they were willing instruments in his
\nhands. And he sent into all the divisions of the earth tens of thousands of angels, teaching
\nthis to mortals, thus laying down the foundation for his grand scheme of reducing heaven
\nand earth into his own kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. Jehovih spake in the Diva, saying: Even this permit ye. The druks will heed more
\nwhat one of their own people saith as a seer, than if the same thing were said a hundred
\ntimes over by an I’hin.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 12<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1. The next resurrection was six thousand million souls, and God and his Lords and his
\nsub-Gods had maintained the Diva, and maintained all the orders of heaven, and the
\ndivisions and kingdoms, save what had confederated with Ahura and his kingdoms. And
\nGod and his Lords had preserved their colleges, schools, factories, hospitals and
\nnurseries, and their standard in the temples with mortals. And of mortals who remained
\nFaithist, that is, the I’huan race preserved in purity, God, his Lords and ashars held
\ncommand for the glory of Jehovih.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. But of the mongrels, who were multiplying fast on the earth, Ahura, his Lords and
\nashars held command. But alas for the grade of Ahura’s hosts in heaven! In less than one
\nthousand years he had abolished his colleges and schools, save what pertained to
\nacquiring a knowledge of the earth and atmospherea. He taught not his people to look
\nhigher for other worlds, and herein he began the work which was in after time to be his
\nown downfall.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Jehovih had said: Whoever provideth not a philosophy for the endless acquisition of
\nknowledge, dammeth up the running waters I have made. Suffer Ahura to teach what he
\nwill; the time will come when he will be obliged to find an outlet for My created beings.
\nAnd rather than acknowledge Me in My Person, he will profess to send souls back into
\nearth to be re-incarnated.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Ahura’s heavenly kingdoms numbered more than six thousand million souls, and
\nhalf of them were little better than drujas, being slaves to certain masters, doing
\nwhatsoever they were bidden without knowing, or desiring to know, the reason therefore.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>5. As yet there were six hundred years to pass before another dawn of dan, in which God,
\nhis Lords and their people had faith that Jehovih’s hosts would come from on high to help
\ndeliver heaven and earth out of darkness.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. On the other hand, Ahura, although having been taught the cycles in his early
\neducation, spread the word abroad in heaven and earth, that there were no cycles; that, as
\nthings are, they had been, and would continue to be.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. So, as much as God’s hosts prophesied a coming light, Ahura and his hosts prophesied
\nthat nothing of the kind would come. Ahura, moreover, sent the following order to his
\nLords, to be taught in heaven and earth, to wit: Am I not he who inspired Zarathustra, the
\nAll Pure? Spake I not to him, face to face? Are not all created things mine own? Who,
\nthen, knoweth but I will light up the world again? Behold, I am the Personation of
\nOrmazd, Who was V<\/span>OIDANCE<\/span>, but now is Me, Ahura’Mazda. In Me only is life and death
\nand resurrection. Whosoever calleth: Ahura’Mazda, Ahura’Mazda! is mine, and within
\nMy keeping. Suffer not thy judgment to be warped by prophets who hope for impossible
\nthings.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. In the sixth dan and the eightieth year, Ahura’s numberless heavenly kingdoms began
\nto be disturbed by his sub-Gods’lack of advancement, and so, sixty of them congregated
\ntogether and appealed to Ahura, saying;
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. In reverence to thee, O thou All Highest God! Many hundreds of years have we served
\nthee. And we have paid thee tribute whenever thou requiredst of us. We have helped to
\nadorn thy capital, Ctusk; with diamonds and pearls we have laid thy streets. Thy mansions
\nhave we built with precious gems. And as to thy throne, what one of us is there but hath
\ncontributed to glorify it before thee. Yea, in all things have we been most loyal and
\ntributary to thee.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Nor are we unmindful of our own wisdom. We remember thy arguments of old. Thou
\ndidst say to thy God: Behold, thou hast long promised we should be raised to more
\nexalted kingdoms, but, behold, two hundred years have elapsed, and there is no
\nadvancement. This thou didst use as an argument for seceding from thy God’s kingdoms.
\nBehold, now we have served thee and thy kingdoms more than a thousand years. We
\ncome to thee to know wherein we can now serve thee that thou mayst exalt us into
\nkingdoms commensurate with our wisdom and power?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. To this Ahura replied, saying: Most humble and well-meaning Lords and sub-Gods,
\nwhy came ye not before me, face to face? Why have ye consorted in private? Was not
\nmy capital, and before my throne, the proper place for your argument? Had ye suggested
\nany way whereby advancement was possible unto you, I had answered your demands.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. But his Lords and sub-Gods came not before him, but sent this answer, to wit: As
\nthou promisedst us advancement provided we served thee, so promised we our ashars,
\nand our marshals and captains. Now they come to us, saying: For hundreds of years have
\nwe served; give us preferment. But we have nothing to give. Think not, O God, that we
\nare unwise, or that we hunger and come begging; or that diadems, or gems, or costly
\nthrones, would satisfy us. We know what thou hast to give–promises! We know every
\ncorner of thy vast kingdom, and that all places are full, and that thou canst not exalt us.
\nWherefore, then, shouldst we have spoken before the throne in Ctusk? Would not our
\nvoices but breed mischief amongst thy other Gods and Lords? Rather let us err in our
\nproceeding, bringing just punishment upon ourselves, than that we should injure thee and<\/span>
\nthy kingdoms. Hear us then, O Ahura’Mazda:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Whence the desire for endless advancement if this heaven be all? If a little knowledge
\ngiveth power, wherein is not great knowledge desirable. We have destroyed our great
\ncolleges, saying: Higher than we, ye must not go. Remember thou, O Ahura, we were
\nstudents under the Faithist’s God and Lords when thou secededst; and thou said unto us:
\nBehold the long training of your course; a curriculum of a thousand years! Come with me;
\nI will give you kingdoms at once.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. So we came to thee, and we were suddenly puffed up with great pride. Behold now,
\nwe look abroad and the same stars shine upon us. We have not visited them. We know
\nnot how to go so far. The countless etherean worlds lay beyond ours. We are told that
\nthey are habitable. We know not. We have no knowledge enabling us to get away from
\nthese heavens; save, indeed, back to the filthy earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. To this Ahura replied, saying: It is plain to me ye are beside yourselves. This heaven
\nis good enough. If there be higher heavens, let them come or stay. I go not to them. But,
\nin truth, with your present convictions, I would be an unwise God not to grant you
\ndismissal from my kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. This ended the matter, and the sixty sub-Gods then deliberated on their course, and
\nfinally sent to God, in Mouru, the following address, to wit:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. In reverence to thee, God of the Faithists in Jehovih: We have had sub-kingdoms, and
\nknow our rank is beneath thine. But we are reaching outward and onward; to thee we
\nsubmit our cause. First, then, there are sixty of us, of the rank of sub-Gods, and we
\nhold seven hundred million subjects. Disaffection hath risen betwixt ourselves and
\nAhura’Mazda, from whom we are alienated. But whether we shall unite our hosts into
\na new kingdom of our own, or affiliate with some mighty God, that is our question?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. What preferment canst thou give unto us if we turn our subjects over to thee?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. God answered them, saying: Brothers, hear me patiently, and consider my words.
\nFirst, then, I am not God of the Faithists, nor of any other people, but God of the locality
\nwhich was assigned me by the Father, through His Son. Neither can ye give your subjects
\nunto me; for by my service to Jehovih I can have nothing, and, least of all, my brothers
\nand sisters.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. In the next place, I can give you no preferment; I have nothing, neither to give nor to
\nsell. Wherein the Father giveth me wisdom and power, I impart them unto others.
\nBesides, until ye have also learned to know that ye have nothing, neither subjects nor
\njewels, also desiring nothing, save wisdom and strength to impart to others, how hope ye
\nto gain admittance into my places of learning?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. And lastly, since ye have kingdoms of your own already, raise ye them up, and thus
\nprove unto me your just merit.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. To this the confederated Gods replied: What meanest thou? That Gods and
\nangels must labor for others than themselves forever, and receive nothing therefore?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. God answered them: Even so; save and except ye shall receive an abundance of
\nhappiness, and it will endure forever! Here the matter ended for two whole years; and
\nthe sub-Gods understood not the plan of Jehovih’s kingdoms. But their kingdoms were
\nout of sorts, having no head; and hundreds of thousands of their subjects were deserting
\nthem and returning down to the corporeal earth, becoming wanderers and drujas.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. Finally the sub-Gods again appealed to God in Mouru, inquiring as followeth,<\/span>
\nto wit: Is not a God a God, whether he be for another or for himself? Behold, we
\nhave helped to build up Ahura; he is a mighty God! If we affiliate with thee, we will
\nlabor to build thee up also. Yea, we will adorn thy throne and thy great heavenly city. But
\nsince we have been sub-Gods we desire not to enter thy service as menials and servants.
\nWhat, then, shall we do, that both thee and ourselves may have honor and glory?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

25. God answered them, saying: Ye cannot serve me; I have no servants. Serve ye
\nJehovih only. Behold, we are all brothers, being Sons of the same Great Spirit. As for
\nbuilding me up, sufficient is it for me that He who created me will build me up according
\nto my just deserts. As for adorning my throne, ye can only bring substance to it from the
\nlower kingdoms, which I desire not. Why will ye adorn the heavenly city of Mouru?
\nBehold, it is but a resting place on the great journey to the kingdoms of endless light. In a
\nfew hundred years, at most, not only I but my hosts will rise from this place to return not
\nto it forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

26. And lastly, to be a self-God, as is Ahura, is to own all things possible, and hold on
\nthereto; to be a God as I am, is to own nothing, and to retain nothing; but to be forever
\ngiving away all one receiveth. Said I not to you before: Begin with your own hosts and
\nexalt them. Inasmuch as ye asked for subjects, behold, the Father gave unto you.
\nThink not that He will suffer ye now to cast them aside or barter them off. Nor shall ye
\nsuffer them to become wanderers, nor to return back to the earth as drujas. As much as
\nye raise up the kingdoms that have been entrusted to you, so will ye also be raised up.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

27. Nevertheless, if ye desire to affiliate with Jehovih’s kingdoms, the way is open unto
\nyou; and your first labor would be, to gather together all your own hosts, and to labor
\namongst them, teaching them wisdom, strength and individuality equal with yourselves;
\nand when the lowest of them is so risen, then can ye enter the kingdoms of the Father. As
\nye have had the profit of your subjects for hundreds of years, return ye now unto them
\nservice for service. Jehovih is Justice!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

28. The sub-Gods made no answer to this for awhile, but Jehovih moved upon their
\nhearts, and they perceived wisdom and justice, and they repented, bitterly bewailing the
\nloss of the thousand years in which they had espoused kingdoms. But they had neither
\npower nor learning sufficient to extricate themselves; so they petitioned God for more
\nlight. Whereupon, God affiliated them, and appointed Vishnu Lord unto them and their
\nhosts.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

29. And Vishnu took three hundred thousand teachers, captains, physicians, nurses and
\nlaborers, and went to them in Maitraias, a heavenly place to the west of Vindyu, and there
\nestablished a Lordly division, with messengers in connection with Mouru, in Haraiti. And
\nVishnu sent his captains with sufficient forces, under command of the sub-Gods, to arrest
\nsuch as had become wandering spirits, or had returned to the earth as drujas. And whilst
\nthese were on this duty, Vishnu organized his Lord-dom, and this was the first Lord-dom
\nestablished in heaven, which is to say, as mortals on earth have military stations, so was
\nthe Lord-dom of Vishnu.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

30. Jehovih’s Voice had spoken to God in Diva, saying: Behold, the time is coming
\nwhen the sub-kingdom of Ahura, the false, will begin to revolt. And they have
\nthousands of millions of slaves who will strive to go back to the earth to dwell with
\nmortals. They dwell in darkness, and thou shalt not suffer them to regain the earth,
\nlest the races of men go down in darkness, even as before the submersion of Pan.<\/span>
\nFor which reason, thou shalt establish a Lord-dom, and raise a sufficient army to
\nshield the inhabitants of the earth. And thou shalt make Vishnu thy Lord in My behalf.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

31. When it was known in Ctusk, the heavenly place of Ahura, that sixty sub-Gods, with
\ntheir hosts, had affiliated with Jehovih’s kingdoms, general disobedience to Ahura was
\nmanifested by the remaining sub-Gods, of whom there were yet more than eight hundred,
\nwho had within their dominions upward of two thousand million angels, all slaves, and
\nwith light of no other heavenly place than the small precinct where they had been kept in
\ndrudgery hundreds of years.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

32. The Voice of Jehovih came to God, saying: My Son, take advantage of the seed of
\ndisaffection in Ahura’s kingdom. Send thou an otevan of great power throughout the
\nheavenly kingdoms. And thou shalt put trumpeters in the otevan, and they shall prophesy
\nthe dawn of dan within two hundred years.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

33. God perceived, and he had his workmen build an otevan of great power; and he
\nprovided trumpeters, and sent them forth, saying to them: Ten years shall ye travel in the
\nheavenly places around about the whole earth, prophesying: In less than two hundred
\nyears, Jehovih’s etherean hosts are coming. Prepare ye for the resurrection; His kingdoms
\nare open for the weary; His Lords and Gods will give you rest!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

34. Ahura summoned his Council of false Gods, hoping they might invent a remedy to
\ncounteract so great a prophecy. And he and his Council sat forty days and forty nights in
\ntheir heavenly capital; but there was no high light amongst them, merely each one giving
\nhis opinion. But at the end of forty days Ahura resolved upon the following method, to
\nsend a prophecy of his own.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

35. Accordingly, he had an otevan built, and sent trumpeters forth with these words, to
\nwit: I, Ahura’Mazda, Only Son of the All Nothing Presence, personated in My Very Self,
\nproclaim from My All Highest Heavenly Judgment Seat! Hear My words, O ye Gods, and
\ntremble! Hear Me, O ye angels, and fall down! Hear Me, O mortals, and bow down to My
\ndecrees. Behold, I sent My fire-ship, prophesying that in less than two hundred years I
\nwould come in a dawn of dan! But ye obeyed not; ye were defiant before Me! Then I
\nswore an oath against all the world! Ye shall know My power! Then I came down out of
\nMy holy, high heaven; and I am already come. Now is the dawn of dan! I send My
\ntrumpeters first; after them come my lashers and enchainers, whose captain is Daevas,
\nwhose God is Anra’mainyus. I will have Mine, and I will give druks and drujas by
\nthousands and tens of thousands over to everlasting torments.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

36. Ahura’s Gods had become acquainted with him, during the hundreds and hundreds of
\nyears, and they no longer trembled at his commandments. In their hearts they knew he
\ncould not do what he professed; they knew his prophecies were vain boastings. Yea, his
\nvery trumpeters believed not what they proclaimed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holy Memorial Day Book of Divinity Chapter 11, Chapter 12 Chapter 11 1. The next dan was five hundred years, and God and his heavenly kingdoms prospered before Jehovih. But as to the Lord’s kingdoms on earth, and as to mortal kingdoms and empires, not much light was manifested in them. 2. Ahura, who had … [Read more…]<\/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-1220","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\/1220","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=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}