{"id":1334,"date":"2020-05-25T10:13:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T10:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2020-05-25T17:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:21:21","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-monday-may-25th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/05\/25\/lectionary-readings-for-monday-may-25th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Monday, May 25th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter 41, Chapter 42<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 41<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Darker and darker, the hadan fields palled before the touch of Jehovih’s hand, to try the
\nself-assumed Lord God and his heavenly works. As if an epoch new and terrible had
\ncome to one so audacious, who foremost in heaven and earth had sought to banish the
\nworship and the name of the Great Spirit from mortals, and give them instead a heavenly
\nruler in the image of man.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. For before this, all nations knew the office of Gods and Lords, and reverenced them as
\nJehovih’s high officers, raised up spirits of the dead, wise and powerful. But now, in five<\/span>
\ngreat divisions of the earth, satan’s hadan chief had bound his name in mortals, with
\nthreatened penalties, and even death, for mentioning Jehovih’s name. And, to put them
\nto the test, made oaths on burning flesh, that whoso would not eat thereof should die.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. For this was the criterion before the courts that they that refused fish and flesh food, or
\nwould not pollute the body by noxious drinks and smoke, intoxicating to the sense, were
\npossessed of Jehovihian worship, and so deserved torture and death.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. So the names of Lord and God, and Lord God, and De’yus, had now become for a
\nthousand years fixed in mortals’minds as the Creator, a large man sitting on a throne in
\nHored, his heavenly seat, watched and guarded by his son, Anubi, keeper of the scales,
\nand of the gate to heaven. To make a plausible story of which, the angels, through oracles,
\nand magicians, and priests, and prophets, proclaimed that: In the beginning God created
\nthe heavens and the earth, and all things therein and thereon. And he was tired, and
\nrested; and, as if creation was a completed work, left certain laws to run the wonderful
\nmachine whilst he sat afar off, looking on; smiling at the pranks of mortals, and their
\nfailure to understand him, with a devil and a horrid fire to torture their souls, if they sang
\nnot in praise of this compounded, false Lord God.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Thus turned he, their false God, the voice of mortals from Him Who is Ever Present,
\nWhose speech hath every soul heard, Whose Presence moveth all things in heaven and
\nearth! The false God turned them to sing and pray to himself, so he should clutch and
\nbind their souls in endless slavery; untaught, half fed; as drudges, to bring into his capital,
\nprovender and building stones to glorify him forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Over Jaffeth, far and wide, this traitor to Jehovih had sealed in stone, and papyrus, and
\nwood, and sacred cloth, his name, Ho-Joss, to suit the Panic voice, as whilst in Vind’yu he
\nmade them engrave it Dyaus, to fit the Vedic tongue; and thence in Fonece to suit the
\nhigher-spirited race, Adonia-Egad, and go over to Heleste, and, in less distince and
\nbastard Greece, whisper Zeus, saying: These words are watch-words to gain Anubi’s ear,
\nand turn the scales for endless paradise. Go ye, slaves, engrave my names; and, in mortal
\nlibraries, register my great exploit, of how I created the world!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. And make me spotless pure, letting sin into the races of men by Osiris’cunning tale of
\nEve’s weakness by fault of the earth. For I am not come like Jehovih’s captains, spirits
\nsent to rule men for a season, but a very God of blood and bones, who once, in terrible
\nanger, flooded the earth to drown my disobedient sons and daughters. Make ye them to
\ntremble and draw long breath when my name is spoken, or, by mine own soul, I will hurl
\nheaven and earth into endless chaos!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Pressing downward ji’ay came, slowly and surely, the very motion spake as a million
\ntongues, serious, awful. For many, on every side, of the hosts of Anuhasaj were deserting
\nhim. As one in a small way may see on a sinking ship, how the expert swimmers, with
\nstrong arms, leap into the water boldly and swim for the far-off shore, whilst the helpless,
\nin frantic rage, cluster fast upon the distracted officers, blockading them from doing good.
\nSo began the tumult in the fast descending plateau, Hored, which was increased a
\nhundred-fold by the flood of drujas cast upon De’yus’kingdom by his own traitorous false
\nGods.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. De’yus’generals and captains first tried music to hold the forty thousand millions to
\npeace and order; but the es’enaurs themselves took fright, and by the million fled, flying
\ndown to the earth to Osiris’, or Te-in’s, or Sudga’s kingdoms, and over-flooding mortals<\/span>
\nwith ghostly revelries. Next, by parades, and rites, and great processions, did De’yus’
\nofficers seek to divert the panic-stricken millions.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Thus for years this maddened God with wonderful strength of will almost held his
\nown, inventing tens of thousands of stratagems. But at last, in the downward course,
\nHored touched upon the corporeal earth; and suddenly, as if startled by the shock, the
\nfrantic millions screamed, and then, alas, all order died.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. The doors of hell were opened! Anuhasaj’s throne and capital, with all their splendor,
\nthe maddened mob broke loose to pillage or to destroy. And then rushed in the faultfinders, shouting: Thou lying God, but like a man, who art thou? And thou, Anubi! Deceiving judge! A thousand horrid deaths to thee!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. But the unlearned drujas knew not who was rank or officer, God or judge, but seized
\nthe pale and trembling De’yus and Anubi, and more than a million officers, overpowered
\nthem, by ten millions to one, pressed on by the foul-smelling crowd. And now, with
\nblows and kicks and cuffs, on every side began the awful fray. Till stretched as wide as
\nthe earth, the countless millions were plunged into hell. Hereupon, to right and left, was
\nnow an unceasing combat, and all the hosts of the Lord God were sworn for vengeance
\nagainst any one they came against.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Then came the torturers, casting into the hells most offensive smells and suffocating
\ngases, crammed in the nose and mouth of their victims. No more were the Lord God and
\nAnubi seen, but swallowed up in measureless darkness, where every soul sought nothing
\ngood, but labored hard to give unto others excruciating tortures for vengeance sake.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 42<\/span>
\n<\/span>1. God in Craoshivi prayed Jehovih what he should do to release De’yus and Anubi;
\nJehovih answered, saying: My Son, thou shalt first labor for them that desire; whoso
\ncourteth darkness deserveth not thy hand. I have proclaimed from since the olden time,
\nwarning to them that put M<\/span>E <\/span>away; but in their self-conceit they denied My person and
\npower.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Wert thou, this day, to deliver from hell De’yus and Anubi, and their thousands of
\nmillions of self-torturing slaves, they would but use their deliverance to mock My
\ncreation, saying: It lasted not; it was but a breath of wind. For which reason thou shalt not
\nyet meddle with the hells of Hored.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. In four hundred years I will bring the earth into another dawn of light. Till then, let
\nDe’yus and Anubi and their hosts take their course.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. God inquired concerning Osiris and Te-in and Sudga, and Jehovih answered
\nhim, saying: Sufficient unto them is the light they have received. Suffer them also to
\ntake their course, for they also shall become involved in hells of their own building.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. But be thou attentive to My Chosen, the Faithists, in all parts of heaven and earth; not
\nsuffering one of them to fall into the hells of my enemies.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. God acquainted Ahura with Jehovih’s words; then Ahura prayed to Jehovih, saying: O
\nFather, grant thou to me that I may go to Osiris, and to Te-in, and to Sudga, to plead Thy
\ncause. Behold, the Lord God is locked up in hell; even high-raised Gods would not find it
\nsafe to go to him.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Jehovih said: Why, O Ahura, desirest thou to go to Osiris and to Te-in and to Sudga?<\/span>
\nKnowest thou not, how difficult it is to alter the mind of a mortal man; and yet these self-Gods are ten-fold more stubborn!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Ahura said: I know, I cannot change them; to break this matter of conceit, and all
\nlearned men are liable to fall therein, none but Thee, O Jehovih, have power. But these
\nself-Gods were long ago my most loved friends; behold, I will go to them as a father
\nwould to a son, and plead with them. Jehovih gave permission to Ahura to visit them, the
\nthree great self-Gods.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. So Ahura fitted out an otevan, and with ten thousand attendants, and one thousand
\nheralds, and with five thousand musicians, besides the officers of the fire-ship, set sail
\nfor Che-su-gow, Te-in’s heavenly place, over Jaffeth. And when he arrived near the place
\nhe halted and sent his heralds ahead to inquire if he could have audience with Te-in.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Te-in received the heralds cordially, and being informed of their object, sent back this
\nword: Te-in, the most high ruler of heaven and earth sendeth greeting to Ahura,
\ncommanding his presence, but forbidding Ahura and his hosts from speaking to any soul
\nin Che-su-gow save himself (Te-in).
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Ahura received this insulting message with composure, and then proceeded and
\nentered the capital city, the heavenly place of Te-in, where he was met by one million
\nslaves, arrayed in the most gorgeous manner. These conducted him and his attendants to
\nthe arena, where Ahura was received by the marshals, who brought him to the throne,
\nleaving the attendants in the arena. Here Te-in saluted on the S<\/span>IGn OF <\/span>T<\/span>AURUS<\/span>, and Ahura
\nanswered in the sign F<\/span>RIENDSHIP<\/span>.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Te-in signaled privacy, and so all the others fell back, leaving Ahura and Te-in alone.
\nTe-in said: Come thou and sit beside me on the throne. Ahura said: Because thou hast not
\nforgotten me I am rejoiced. And he went up and sat on the throne. Te-in said: Because
\nthou art my friend I love thee; because thou art beside me I am rejoiced. It is more than a
\nthousand years since mine eyes have beholden thee. Tell me, Ahura, how is it with thyself
\nand thy kingdom?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Ahura said: As for myself I am happy; for the greater part, my kingdom is happy also.
\nMy trials have been severe and long enduring. But of my four thousand millions, more
\nthan half of them are delivered beyond atmospherea, high raised; and of the others they
\ngrade from fifty to ninety.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Te-in said: And for thy more than two thousand years’toil, what hast thou gained by
\nstriving to raise up these drujas? Ahura said: This only, O Te-in, peace and rejoicing in
\nmy soul.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Te-in said: Hereupon hang two philosophies: One seeketh peace and rejoicing by
\nlaboring with the lowest of the low; the other, by leading the highest of the high. As for
\nmyself the latter suiteth me better than the former. I tell thee, Ahura, all things come of
\nthe will; if we will ourselves to shut out horrid sights and complainings, such as the poor
\ndruk and the druj indulge in, we have joy in a higher heaven. To me it is thus; sympathy is
\nour most damnable enemy, for it bindeth us to the wretched and miserable. To put away
\nsympathy is to begin to be a great master over others, to make them subservient to our
\nwills.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Ahura said: Is it not a good thing to help the wretched? Te-in answered: To help
\nthem is like drinking nectar; to make one’s senses buoyant for the time being. That is
\nall. They relapse and are less resolute than before, but depend on being helped again.<\/span>
\nFor which reason he who helpeth the wretched doth wrong them woefully. To make
\nthem know their places, this is the highest. For hath not even the Gods got to submit
\nto their places. To learn to be happy with one’s place and condition is great wisdom.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Herein have thousands of Gods fallen; they helped up the poor and wretched; as one
\nmay, in sympathy to serpents, take them into his house and pity them. They immediately
\nturn and bite their helpers. But speak thou, O Ahura; for I have respect to thy words.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. Ahura said: If a man plant an acorn in a flower-pot, and it take root and grow, one of
\ntwo things must follow: the growth must be provided against or the pot will burst. Even
\nthus draweth, from the sources around about, the lowest druj in heaven. None of the Gods
\ncan bind him forever. Alas, he will grow. All our bondage over them cannot prevent the
\nsoul, soon or late, taking root and growing. How, then, can we be Gods over them
\nforever?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. Te-in said: Thou art a God over them; I am a God over them. Where is the difference?
\nAhura said: I am not in mine own name; though I am God over them, yet am I not God
\nover them. For I teach them they shall not worship me, but Jehovih. I train them that I
\nmay raise them away from me. Neither do my people serve me, but serve the Great Spirit.
\nThou teachest thy drujas that thou art the all highest, and that they shall be contented
\nto serve thee everlastingly. Thou dost limit them to the compass of thy kingdom. I do
\nnot limit my subjects, but teach them that their progression is forever onward, upward.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. Te-in said: How do we not know but the time will come unto them, and they shall
\nsay: Alas, I was taught in error. They told me there was a Great Spirit, a Person
\ncomprising all things, but I have found Him not. Will they not then revolt also? Was not
\nthis the cause of De’yus’fall? He had searched the heavens to the extreme, but found not
\nJehovih. Then he returned, and possessed himself of heaven and earth. Although he
\nfailed, and is cast into hell, it is plain that his sympathy for drujas caused his fall. From
\nhis errors, I hope to guard myself; for I shall show no sympathy for the poor or wretched;
\nneither will I permit education on earth or in heaven, save to my Lords or marshals. When
\na mortal city pleaseth me not, I will send spirits of darkness to flood it unto destruction.
\nYea, they shall incite mortals to fire the place, and do riot and death. Thus will I keep the
\ndrujas of heaven forever busy playing games with mortals, and in bringing provender and
\ndiadems to forever glorify my heavenly kingdom.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. Ahura said: Where in all the world hath a self-God stood and not fallen? Te-in said:
\nThou mayst ask of mortals: Where is a kingdom or a nation that stood, and hath not
\nfallen? Yet thou perceivest nations continue to try to found themselves everlastingly. But
\nthey are leveled in time. Things spring up and grow, and then fall into dissolution. Will it
\nnot be so with ourselves in the far future? Will we not become one with the ever-changing elements, and as nothing, and wasted away?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. Ahura said: One might say of man and spirits: There were some seeds planted; and
\nmany of them rotted and returned to earth; but others took root and grew and became
\nlarge trees. But yet, is it not true also of the trees that they have a time? For they die, and
\nfall down, and rot, and also return to earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. Ahura continued: Admit this to be true, O Te-in, and that the time may come when
\nthou and I shall pass out of being, doth it not follow that for the time we live we should
\ncontribute all we can to make others happy?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. Te-in said: If by so doing it will render ourselves happy, with no danger to our<\/span>
\nkingdoms, then yea, verily. For which reason are we not forced back after all to
\nthe position that we shall labor for our own happiness, without regard to others?
\nOne man delighteth in art, another in philosophy, another in helping the poor and
\nwretched; and another in eating and drinking, and another in ruling over others; shall not
\nthey all have enjoyment in the way of their desires? Shalt thou say to him that delighteth
\nin eating and drinking: Stop thou; come and delight thyself helping the wretched!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

25. Ahura said: This I have seen; the intelligent and clean have more delight than do the
\nstupid and filthy; the rich more enjoyment than the poor. As for ourselves, we delight
\nmore in seeing the delighted than in seeing the wretched. More do we delight to see a
\nchild smile than to hear it cry; but there be such that delight more to make a child cry than
\nto see it smile; but such persons are evil and take delight in evil. Shall we, then, indulge
\nthem in their means of delight? Or is there not a limit, as when we say: All men have
\na right to that which delighteth themselves, provided it mar not the delight of others?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

26. Te-in said: Thou hast reasoned well. We shall delight ourselves only in such ways as
\ndo not mar the delight of others. Whereupon Ahura said: Then am I not delighted with the
\nmanner of thy kingdom; and thou shouldst not practice what giveth me pain. Because
\nthou hast resolved to educate not mortals nor angels, thou hast raised a hideous wall in
\nthe face of Gods.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

27. Te-in said: This also wilt thou admit: that as we desire to delight ourselves
\nwe should look for the things that delight us, and turn away from things that delight
\nus not. Therefore, let not the Gods turn their faces this way, but to their own affairs.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

28. Ahura said: Thou art wise, O Te-in. But this I have found; that something within us
\ngroweth, that will not down nor turn aside. In the beginning of life we look to ourselves,
\nwhich is the nature of the young; but when we grow, we take a wife, and we delight to see
\nher delighted; then cometh offspring, and we delight to see them delighted. After this, we
\ndelight to see our neighbors delighted; and then the state, and then the whole kingdom.
\nThis delight to be delighted groweth within us; and when we become Gods we delight no
\nlonger in the delight of a few only, but we expand unto many kingdoms. As for myself, I
\nfirst delighted in the delight of Vara-pishanaha; but now I delight to see other Gods
\nand other kingdoms delighted. For that, I have come to thee. I fear thy fate. I love thee.
\nI love all thy people, good and bad. Behold, this I have found, that it is an easier matter
\nto suffer a river to run its course than to dam it up; to dam up a river and not have
\nit overflow or break the dam this I have not found. The course of the spirit of man
\nis growth; it goeth onward like a running river. When thou shuttest up the mouth,
\nsaying: Thus far and no farther! I fear for thee. I tried this matter once; I was flooded;
\nthe dam was broken. I see thee shutting out knowledge from mortals and angels; but
\nI tell thee, O Te-in, the time will come when the channel will be too broad for thee.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

29. Te-in said: How shall I answer such great wisdom? Where find a God like unto thee,
\nO Ahura? And yet, behold, the Lord God, Anuhasaj, toiled with thee hundred of years,
\nand learned all these things; yea, he traveled in the far-off heavens, where there are Gods
\nand kingdoms which have been for millions of years. And he came back and renounced
\nthe Great Person, Jehovih. He said: All things are not a harmonious whole; but a jumble;
\na disordered mass, playing catch as catch can.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

30. Ahura said: And what hath befallen him? And is here not a great argument? For we
\nbehold in all times and conditions and places, in heaven and on earth, wherever people<\/span>
\nassume doctrines like unto his, they begin to go down into hell. They flourish a little
\nwhile, but only as a summer plant, to yield in the winter’s blast. For this I have seen for a
\nlong time coming against these heavens, even thine, that, as darkness crushed De’yus, so
\nwill thy heavenly dominions soon or late fall, and in the shock and fray thou wilt suffer a
\nfate like unto De’yus.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

31. Te-in said: For thy wise words, O Ahura, I am thy servant. I will consider thy
\nargument, and remember thee with love. In a thousand years from now I may be wiser;
\nand I may have my kingdom so built up that it will be an argument stronger than words.
\nHereupon the two Gods brought their argument to a close, and Te-in signaled his vice-Gods and marshals, and they came; and when Ahura and Te-in had saluted each other, Ahura was conducted away from the place of the throne, and after that beyond the capital.
\nThe vice-Gods and marshals delivered him to his own attendants, and with them he
\nembarked in his otevan, and set sail for Sudga’s heavenly kingdom, over the land of
\nVind’yu.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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