{"id":1263,"date":"2020-04-28T20:50:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2020-04-28T20:50:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:50:43","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-april-29th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/04\/28\/lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-april-29th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Wednesday, April 29th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weekday Sabbath<\/em><\/p>\n

God’s First Book Chapter 16, Chapter 17<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 16<\/span><\/p>\n

1. For eighteen years more God spake not to Brahma, but Brahma remained faithful, and
\nYu-tiv was full of hope. But when the time was fulfilled in Ormazd’s own way, He came
\nwith renewed light, which was on the twenty-first birthday of Hog.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Whilst Brahma and his family were seated on mats, eating breakfast at sunrise, lo, a
\nlight, as of a sun, came within the hut, and passed over Brahma’s head, and then
\ndisappeared. And out of the void, in the space above their heads, came these words, to
\nwit: From this time forth the twenty-first birthday shall be the time of maturity for man.
\nBe ye watchful for the voice of Ormazd; He is Ever Present!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. And all of them saw the light and heard the words, save Hog, and Hog, having
\nbeen begotten in unbelief, neither saw the light nor heard the voice. And when they
\nall had exclaimed: Behold the light! Hear that voice!–Hog thus spake before them:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. For many a year ye have prophesied this should come to pass when I should reach my
\ntwenty-first birthday. For the love ye all bear me, I know ye would not put a joke upon
\nme; but I am seriously grieved that ye say: Behold the light, and hear the voice! For I say
\nunto you, these things are not in reason, and cannot be so. But in much hope and faith and
\nbelief, all of which ye have cultivated for years, ye suffer your imaginings to stand for
\nrealities.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Now whilst Hog thus spake, the light came again and stood over Brahma’s head whilst
\none might count twenty; and the Voice said: Blessed art thou, O Brahma; blessed thou, O
\nYu-tiv! These things had to be fulfilled. I preach not by reason alone, but provide living
\nexamples! (In his old age Brahma had attained iesu!)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Again all of them saw and heard the manifestation of Ormazd, save Hog, and he saw
\nnot, and heard not what came of the Spirit. Hog said: Have I not eyes good as the best?
\nShow me a hair that I cannot see; let fall a mite that I cannot hear. Then Whe-ish, the
\nfirst-born, answered him, saying:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. First, my brother, I greet thee with my love, for thou art the fairest and best of all the
\ngreat born sons of this God and Goddess, our father and mother. And I appeal to thee
\nin thy great wisdom, how have we all imagined the same light at the same time and
\nplace? And greater yet, how have we imagined the same spoken words? Hog replied:<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>8. How can my answers cope with one who hath wisdom like unto thee, O my brother?
\nThou hast confounded me; but yet I understand not wherein thou, and ye, my most
\nloving brothers, can see and hear things that I cannot. Have we not all the same parts,
\nso like unto one another that our neighbors scarce distinguish us? And above all, we
\nare all the same fruit from a father and mother, the holiest and wisest of created beings.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Now spake Yu-tiv saying: I am before Thy judgment, O Ormazd! That which I have
\ndone, I have done! Deal Thou with me for my great unbelief; I have sinned against
\nheaven and earth. Even whilst Thou quickenedst into life within my womb this star of
\neverlasting light, lo, I put out his eyes and stopped up his ears against Thee. The unbelief
\nof my soul penetrated the walls of my womb and shaped the fruit of my holy husband into
\na man of darkness. O Ormazd, why was Thy daughter born!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Hog said: O thou Goddess, mother! Weep not, but rejoice for the glory of my birth.
\nThat thou and my holy father, a very God amongst men, brought me into life, my soul is
\nboundless in rejoicing. I declare unto thee, O mother, I am not in darkness, nor am I blind
\nand deaf. If there be another world, what mattereth it to me? The glories of this one are
\nboundless. And if there be a Great Light and a Voice, what are they to me! Thou hast so
\nfilled my every vein of blood with thy warm love, and with the sweet love of these, my
\nholy brothers, and with the wisdom of my father, God of men, that I know nothing but
\nto rejoice and to invent praises and thanks to you all, with all my wisdom and strength.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. And now the Light gathered within the soul of Brahma, and he was as one with the
\nFather. Ormazd, the Creator, then spake through Brahma, saying:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. I created the earth not to be despised, as do the Zarathustrians through the hearts of
\nmonarchs and priests, but that it should be the glory of man. This was the Zarathustrian
\nlaw, but, for sake of profit, and bondage, and evil, they have perverted My doctrines and
\nbound up My peoples. They profess Me, even Ormazd; but they have turned My
\ncommandments and My doctrines upside down.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. I came through Zarathustra and delivered them that called on Me in faith; and they
\nbecame My chosen for a season; but they suffered evil to usurp their hearts; they
\nsquandered My substance in building temples and providing a superabundance of priests
\nand priestesses. They raised up the sword and spear for me; by blood and death they
\nestablished kingdoms and called them by My name, Ormazd!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. The spirit of My Voice they put aside; but the words they retained, and added earthly
\nmeaning thereto. Whereby they proclaim darkness for light, and light for darkness. And
\nthe poor and distressed that worship Me in truth and spirit have learned to hate the words
\nestablished. For which reason they are persecuted, and bound, and taxed, and despitefully
\nused.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Yea, they that would kill not because of their natural love to Me and My created sons
\nand daughters, they impress into service of war, taking them from their kindred, saying to
\nthem: Come away from peace and kill! Be thou a slayer of men; be a soldier of death for
\nthe glory of the king.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. I commanded them, in the olden time, to kill not at all. My words were plain. But the
\nkings commanded the priests to interpret My words round about, whereby war might be
\njustified.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. I commanded them against taking that which was another’s. My words were plain. But
\nthe kings commanded the priests to interpret the meaning, so the kings could exact tribute<\/span>
\nfor their own glory. And so they levy wheresoever and whensoever they will, saying: For
\nthe defense of the king and the country!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. Thus have they perverted My commandments from beginning to end. But I declare
\nunto you, that in My sight, to kill one man, I will hold him accountable who doeth it; and
\nten times accountable if he kill ten men, and a hundred times for a hundred. They shall
\nnot hide death and murder from My sight by the word war.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. Neither shall they excuse stealing by levying tax for the king or the country’s
\nprotection. For by their own evil, hath it come to pass that they talk about protection.
\nHave I made a law that one king or one country shall protect itself against another?
\nSeest not any man that these doctrines come of the flesh and not of the spirit?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. They profess to be Faithists in Me. But straight away they go and build fortifications
\nof earth, and stone, and wood. And they that know Me in spirit and truth, perceiving I am
\nwrongly interpreted for evil’s sake, being such as rebel in their souls against these
\niniquities, they seize and impress for their lifetime as slaves, or, if refusing, they kill
\nthem.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. And they that work such wickedness say: Behold, we have the Zarathustrian law,
\nthe I’hua’Mazdian law, the Ormazdian law; ours is the holy, the revealed word.
\nLet no man raise up his voice against these truths, or he shall surely be put to death!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. But I looked down from My holy heavens and saw, and Mine ears heard; and I cried
\nout in My soul for the evils of the earth. I said: Behold, I will go and deliver them that
\nhave faith in Me in spirit and truth. And I went over the lands of the earth, but I found no
\nman in whom My light could shine. And I called My holy masters of generations, My
\nangels high raised in heaven, and I said unto them: Come ye and dwell on the earth many
\ngenerations, and by inspiration raise ye up one in whom My light shall shine, for I will
\nsurely deliver My people.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. Now I declare unto you who are assembled, the time is at hand, and ye are all so many
\nparts in My work. Even through My angels named ye these sons; according to their
\nnames, so will I establish My kingdom.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. Suffer, therefore, Vede to write down the words I have spoken, for lo, he hath
\nlearning and memory provided to that end. Be ye watchful, when I come again!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

25. Jehovih (Ormazd) ceased, and Brahma woke as from a trance, though he had heard
\nall that was said. So Vede remembered the spoken words, every one, and he wrote
\nthem down on cloth prepared for that purpose. And this was the beginning of a new name
\nof a people on the earth, though they were Faithists in fact, and nothing but Faithists;
\nbut they were called by their neighbors sometimes Vedans and sometimes Brahmins.
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Chapter 17<\/span>
\n<\/span>1. The next morning, at sunrise, Jehovih came again, speaking through Brahma, saying:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. As I prepared a way for My voice, be ye wise in laboring to show this light unto all
\npeoples. Neither take ye sorrow to your souls for the latest born, even Hog; for he is also
\nin My keeping, and his wisdom shall be the glory of the earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. For is not all fact interpreted by each and every man from the light of his own standing
\nplace? Wherein error cometh into the world by the darkness of men, in not perceiving
\nrightly the things I have created. Behold, one man seeth the forest with reference to its<\/span>
\nvalue in logs; another for splints for mats; another for shade to lie in; another for its
\nsolitude; and they all alike see by what dwelleth in them, but they see through their own
\nseveral windows.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Consider, then, the injustice of man that saith: Ye shall see as I see; hear as I hear; or
\nwho saith: This I have proven for a truth, and that for an untruth; or who saith: Behold,
\nwe are many witnesses, and we attest.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Whilst Jehovih was thus speaking, His angel appeared and stood in the doorway of the
\nhut, and all save Hog looked and saw the angel, and witnessed the color of the angel’s hair
\nand eyes, and the clothes he wore. And they pointed, saying in a whisper: Behold, an
\nangel of heaven!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Then spake Jehovih, illustrating, saying: Whilst yet no one hath spoken, let one
\nat a time privily describe to Hog the appearance of My angel in the doorway.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Accordingly, they all, save Brahma, told Hog all that pertained to the angel, and
\nthey accorded one with another. And Jehovih said: Speak thou, My Son, Hog. Hog said:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. To whom shall I speak? For, be Thou my very father, or, of a truth, the Creator, I know
\nnot. God said: Who sayest thou the Creator is? Hog said: Even as the wind; the great
\nvoid; without person, or shape, or sense.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. God said unto him: For which reason I say unto thee, because of the unbelief of thy
\nfather and thy mother, whilst thou wert in thy mother’s womb, thou art as thou art. This
\nhave they attested unto thee thousands of times since thou wert weaned. And they have
\nalso attested to thee as often, that during the bringing forth of thy brothers, they were in
\nthe fullness of faith in Jehovih (Ormazd).
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Thou wert born of the earth, and can only see with earthly eyes, and hear with
\nearthly ears, and can reason only with earthly reason. Hog said: Then of a truth I shall go
\ndown to earth and there shall be no more of me; but these, my sweet brothers, and
\nthis Goddess and this God, my very father and mother, shall inherit everlasting life?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. God said: I would place two eggs before thee, with the birds within them nearly
\nhatched; now with one thou shalt open the shell a little, and the young bird seeth out, but
\nthe other thou leavest closed. Sayest thou one bird will have much advantage over the
\nother when they are hatched? Or that one shall not live, because, forsooth, it saw not
\nthrough the shell? Such, then, is thy way to everlasting life. Of thy darkness will I make
\nlight that will reach unto millions. Thy sacrifice is the sacrifice of a very God amongst
\nGods.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Hog said: Because of Thy great wisdom, I fear to speak in thy presence. But thy
\nwords come out of his mouth who is the sweetest and holiest of created beings. Therefore
\nI take courage in mine argument.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Now, behold, they have all described the angel in the door; alike and like have they
\ndescribed it in all particulars. And the wisdom of thy words goeth to the bottom of things,
\nnot like the words of man, but faultlessly. Thou hast made me to behold I am bound as
\nwith iron hoops, and must go my way all my days. Against this I complain not; for I
\nperceive it is not within my judgment to know even myself, as to what is good for me
\nor not good for me. This, however, thou hast shown me. I was molded as I am; I am
\nas I am. If I have faults, they are not my faults. Neither are they of my father or my
\nmother; for the cause of their unbelief at that time lay not with themselves, but with thee.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. God said: Thy words shall Vede also write down; the glory and the wisdom of the<\/span>
\nearth shall come out of thy mouth. The manner of my edifice shall be shown unto the
\ninhabitants of the earth. Thou hast seen the king’s temple and how he buildeth it. For the
\nfine posts he sendeth his best hewers into the forest, and they choose the straightest and
\nstrongest trees, and fall them and hew them, and polish and engrave them, and the posts
\nare set up in the front as strength and ornament. But as to the walls of the temple, the king
\ncalleth not the best hewers, but the choppers, and they also go into the forest to fetch logs,
\nnot the straightest and handsomest, but whatsoever their axes come upon. And their
\ntimbers are put in the walls with mortar and withes. And the temple is completed to the
\nking’s will.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Jehovih said: Of such like is My heavenly edifice; I send not winter to please one
\nman, nor summer; nor the rain. I consider in what way I shall induce men to raise up
\none another and to be considerate. Through Me, thy father and thy mother and thy
\nbrethren, and all Faithists that come after these, My doctrines, learn to consider the
\nunbelief of mortals, and the impossibility of one man seeing through another man’s eyes.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. For as I have raised you up a house in love, one to another, so will I show the wisdom
\nof disbelief, and its necessity on the earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. The foremost of all lessons is that all men shall have liberty; and no man’s
\njudgment be binding on another’s; for all do not see alike, nor can they understand alike.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. That ye shall be alike considerate to them that see not My light, or My Person, even as
\nto them who are born in su’is; for they are of the same flesh and blood, and their spirits
\nhave they even from the same Creator.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. For in the evidence of the past and of the present it is before you, that men endeavor
\nto enforce their doctrines by saying: BEHOLD THE WORD OF ORMAZD! THUS HATH HE
\nSPOKEN! AND I AM HIS PRIEST! BOW DOWN YOUR HEADS!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. Whereas, man shall not bow down, but hold up his head and rejoice. They that seek to
\nenforce Me are My enemies.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. Nor have I said of this man or that: Hear ye him, for he is Truth. Shall the Creator
\nmake one greater than Himself, and thus cut Himself off? And yet the kings and the
\npriests of this day assume this in Ihua’s name. And the mothers and fathers of many have
\nbecome discouraged because of their great hardships; and they bring forth heirs that have
\neyes but see not, ears but hear not.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. God said: In the days of Zarathustra, I came to deliver them that had faith but were in
\nbondage; to-day I am come to prove three worlds unto men, and to teach them how they
\nshall bring forth heirs with eyes to see, and with ears to hear spiritual things, with liberty
\nunto all men.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. First, of the earth and its fullness; second, the intermediate world of spirits, where all
\nshall sojourn for a season; and, third, the Nirvanian worlds beyond Chinvat, where lieth
\nunending paradise for the pure and wise. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weekday Sabbath God’s First Book Chapter 16, Chapter 17 Chapter 16 1. For eighteen years more God spake not to Brahma, but Brahma remained faithful, and Yu-tiv was full of hope. But when the time was fulfilled in Ormazd’s own way, He came with renewed light, which was on the twenty-first birthday of Hog. 2. … [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-1263","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\/1263","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=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}