{"id":1342,"date":"2020-05-27T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T11:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2020-05-27T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:07:59","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-may-27th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/05\/27\/lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-may-27th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Wednesday, May 27th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Weekday Sabbath<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter 45, Chapter 46<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 45<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. Jehovih suffered the self-Gods to prosper for more than four hundred years; and<br \/>\nTe-in, and Sudga, and Osiris became the mightiest Gods that ever ruled on the earth.<br \/>\nKnow, then, these things of them, in heaven and earth, whereof the libraries of<br \/>\nJehovih&#8217;s kingdoms relate more fully that of which the following is a synopsis, to wit:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. First of Te-in, then Sudga, then Osiris. And of Te-in&#8217;s heavenly kingdom, two vice-Gods, Noe Jon and Wang-tse-Yot. Chief high marshal, Kolotzka, and under him thirty thousand marshals. Chief general, Ha-e Giang, and under him one hundred<br \/>\nthousand generals and high captains. Of these, twenty thousand were allotted to the<br \/>\ndominion of mortals in Jaffeth; the others served in heaven, mostly about the throne<br \/>\nof Te-in. Chiefly distinguished as Gods on the earth were Te-in&#8217;s fourteen chief<br \/>\ngenerals: Kaoan-cat, Yam-yam, Tochin-woh, Ho-jon-yo, Wah-ka, Oke-ya-nos,<br \/>\nHaing-le, Lutz-rom, Le-Wiang, Thu-wowtch, Eurga-roth, I-sa-ah, To Gow and Ah Shung.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. These generals were divided into two parts, seven each; and they were allotted equally,<br \/>\nof the twenty thousand rank generals deputed to the earth; and these again were allotted<br \/>\neach thirty thousand angel warriors.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. Te-in had said to these fourteen chief generals: When ye come to the earth, and finding<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">two cities near together, both of which worship other Gods than me, ye shall<br \/>\ndivide yourselves into two parts; and one army shall go to one mortal city and the other<br \/>\nto the other, and by inspiration and otherwise ye shall bring the two cities to war<br \/>\nagainst each other, until both are broken down, or destroyed. After which ye shall<br \/>\ninspire another city, that worshippeth me, to come and possess both of those that<br \/>\nare destroyed. Better is it to make our enemies kill each other than to kill them ourselves.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. And such was the mode of warfare by Te-in in that all the land of Jaffeth was subdued<br \/>\nunto himself in less than a hundred years. Save the matter of a million Faithists, scattered<br \/>\nhere and there; and of the Listians who were in the mountains and wildernesses. And<br \/>\ngreat and costly temples were built in all the cities of Jaffeth, and dedicated to T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">E-IN<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">,<br \/>\nC<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">REATOR AND <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">R<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ULER OF <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">H<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">EAVEN AND <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">E<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ARTH<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. Now, as to the worshippers of Joss and Ho-Joss, they were not converted but subdued,<br \/>\nand they worshipped their God in secret, and made rites and ceremonies whereby they<br \/>\nmight know one another and the better escape persecution. Many of these rites partook<br \/>\nafter the manner of the ancient rite of Bawgangad.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. Of the great cities destroyed in these wars were: Hong We, Chow Go and Sheing-tdo.<br \/>\nFor Hong We the wars lasted twenty years; and there were slain within the city five<br \/>\nhundred thousand men, women and children.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. The wars of Chow Go lasted forty years, and within her walls were slain three hundred<br \/>\nthousand men, women and children. For Sheing-tdo the wars lasted twenty-five years,<br \/>\nand there were slain within her walls three hundred thousand men, women and children.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. In the destruction of Hong-We there were consigned to ashes four hundred houses of<br \/>\nphilosophy; two thousand four hundred colleges, and twelve thousand public schools. All<br \/>\nof which had been made glorious in the reign of Hong, the king of the city. Because he<br \/>\nworshipped Ho-Joss, his great city was destroyed.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. In Chow Go there were destroyed six hundred houses of philosophy and two hundred<br \/>\ncolleges of Great Learning. Here was the Temple of Jonk, which was dedicated to<br \/>\nworship of Joss (God), and which, in building, required twenty thousand men twelve<br \/>\nyears. It had two thousand pillars of Awana stone, polished; and at the blood altar it had<br \/>\ntwelve thousand skulls, of which the great king Bak Ho was slaughterer in the name of<br \/>\nHo-Joss. The throne of worship for the king was set with diamonds and pearls; and it had<br \/>\na thousand candlesticks of gold and silver. And the fine silk drapery and fine wool<br \/>\ndrapery within the temple were sufficient, if spread out, for five hundred thousand men to<br \/>\nlie down on and yet not cover up the half of it. And the drapery was painted and<br \/>\nembroidered with pictures of battles and wars; and of scenes in heaven. For the<br \/>\nornamentation of which drapery twenty thousand men and women had labored for forty<br \/>\nyears. All of which were destroyed, together with all the great city and all its riches and<br \/>\nmagnificence.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. Sheing-tdo was a city of fashion and splendor, inhabited by the richest men in the<br \/>\nworld. She had a temple called Cha-oke-king, dedicated to learning, but in fact<br \/>\nappropriated to the display of wealth and pageantry. It was round, with a high projecting<br \/>\nroof, the eaves of which rested on ten thousand pillars of polished stone. There were four<br \/>\nhundred door-ways to enter the temple; but, within each door-way, one came against<br \/>\nthe square columns of precious stones that supported the roof inside; and to either side<br \/>\nof the columns were passage-ways that led into the four hundred chambers within. In<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">the center of the temple, artificial stalactites, twenty thousand, hung from the roof;<br \/>\nthese were made of silk and wool and fine linen and painted, and of colors so bright that<br \/>\nmortal eye could scarce look upon them, and they were as ice with the sun shining<br \/>\nthereon, forming rainbows in every direction. Here came kings and queens and governors<br \/>\nof great learning; for here were deposited copies of the greatest books in all the world.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. Besides the temple of Cha-oke-king, there were seven great temples built to Joss,<br \/>\neither of which was large enough for ten thousand men to do sacrifice in at one time. For<br \/>\nfive and twenty years the people of Sheing-tdo fought to save their great city from<br \/>\ndestruction, but it fell, and was destroyed, and all the temples with it; by king Bingh it<br \/>\nwas laid low.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. Next to these were the following great cities that were destroyed: Gwoo-gee, which<br \/>\nhad one hundred houses of philosophy and forty colleges for great learning; one temple,<br \/>\nwith eight hundred polished pillars and two thousand arches; thirty temples of wheat and<br \/>\ncorn sacrifice; one feed-house, where was stored food for one hundred thousand people in<br \/>\ncase of famine, sufficient for eight years; and all these, and the libraries of the records<br \/>\nof the Gods and Lords of earth, and all things whatever in the city were burnt to ashes.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. The city of Young-ooh, of two hundred thousand inhabitants, which had seventy<br \/>\nhouses of philosophy, and thirty-five colleges of great learning, besides many schools;<br \/>\none T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">EMPLE OF THE <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">S<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">TARS<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">, where lectures were given daily to the people to teach them the<br \/>\nnames and places of the stars and their wondrous size and motion; forty temples of<br \/>\nsacrifice, seven of which were large enough to hold all the inhabitants of Young-ooh, the<br \/>\ngreat city. By king Shaing it was laid in ashes, and nothing but heaps of stones remained<br \/>\nto tell where the city had been.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. The city, Gwan-she, which had thirty houses of philosophy, and seventy temples of<br \/>\nsacrifice, two Temples of the Stars dedicated to Joss; eighty-five colleges of Great<br \/>\nLearning, and also a feed-house, stored sufficiently to feed the city seven years; and there<br \/>\nwere two hundred thousand inhabitants within the city walls. Twelve years the people of<br \/>\nthis city fought against the incited plunderers, the warriors under the God Te-in, but were<br \/>\nconquered at last, and their city laid low.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. And the great cities, Ghi, and Owan, and Chong, and Goon, and Ca-On and Jongwong, and Sow, and Wowtch-gan, and Sem-Sin, and Gee, and Tiang, and Choe, and Doth, and Ah-mai, and Conc Shu, and Guh, and Haingtsgay, and Ghi-oo-yong, and Boygonk, all of which had houses of philosophy and colleges of great learning, and public schools, and temples of sacrifice, and feed-houses, and hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. And all these cities were destroyed, and only heaps of stones left to tell where<br \/>\nthey had been.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. Besides these, there were more than two thousand cities of less prominence destroyed.<br \/>\nAnd yet, of villages and small cities, so great were they in number which were destroyed,<br \/>\nthat no man ever counted them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. City against city; king against king; man against man; for the inhabitants of Jaffeth<br \/>\nwere obsessed to madness and war and destruction; almost without cause would they fall<br \/>\nupon one another to destroy; for so had Te-in sent his hundreds of millions of warring<br \/>\nangels to inspire mortals to destroy all knowledge, and instruction, and learning, and<br \/>\nphilosophy, and to destroy all trace of all other Gods and Lords, that he alone might reign<br \/>\nsupreme.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">19. And these angels taught mortals how to make explosive powder, and guns to shoot<br \/>\nwith, more deadly than the bow and arrow; and taught the secret of under-digging a city<br \/>\nand blowing it up with explosive powder.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">20. So, the fair land of Jaffeth, with its wisdom and great learning, was made as a<br \/>\ndistracted and broken-up country. In all directions the bones of mortals were scattered<br \/>\nover the lands; nor could the land be tilled without digging amongst the skulls and bones<br \/>\nof the great giant race of I&#8217;huans that once had peopled it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">21. And of those who were not destroyed, one might say: They were a poor, half-starved,<br \/>\nsickly breed, discouraged and helpless, badly whipped.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">22. And the spirits of the dead were on all the battle-fields, lighting up the dark nights by<br \/>\ntheir spirit-fires, and in the morning and the twilight of evening they could be seen by<br \/>\nhundreds and thousands, walking about, shy and wild! But an abundance of familiar<br \/>\nspirits dwelt with mortals; took on sar&#8217;gis forms, and ate and drank with them, and even<br \/>\ndid things of which it is unlawful to mention.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">23. Thus was Jaffeth won to the God Te-in. Now of Sudga, know ye.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 46<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. Two vice-Gods had Sudga, Brihat and Visvasrij. Next to these, Sudga&#8217;s heavenly chief<br \/>\nmarshal Atma, who had four thousand marshals under him, and equally divided amongst<br \/>\nthem to command, one thousand million heavenly warring angels. Atma had authority<br \/>\nover thirty thousand generals and captains, to whom were allotted two thousand million<br \/>\nangels.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. Chief of the heavenly generals were: Shahara, Vasyam, Suchchi, Dev, Nasakij, Tvara,<br \/>\nWatka, Shan, Dorh, Hudhup, Nikish, Hajara, Hwassggarom, Viji, Yatamas, Brahma,<br \/>\nGoska, Fulowski, M&#8217;Duhitri, Yaya-mich-ma, Hijavar, Duth, Lob-yam, Hi-gup and Vowiska. And these falsely assumed the names of the ancient Gods and Lords of thousands of years before.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. Sudga had said to them: That my age may be magnified before the newborn in heaven,<br \/>\nye shall also magnify your own names by taking the names of Gods and Lords who are<br \/>\nrevered in heaven and earth, for all things are free unto you. But into none others do I<br \/>\ngive privilege to choose the names of the ancients.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. Sudga then made the following his Private Council: Plow-ya, Vazista, Kiro, Cpen-ista,<br \/>\nVisper, E-shong, Bog-wi, Lowtha, Brihat, Gai-ya, Sa-mern, Nais-wiche, Yube, Sol, Don,<br \/>\nMung-jo, Urvash, Cpenta-mainyus, Vazista, and Vanaiti; and to each of them ten<br \/>\nthousand attendants.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. Then Sudga made two great captains, Varsa and Baktu, and he said unto them: Two<br \/>\nthousand million angels have I allotted to go down to the earth, to the land of Vind&#8217;yu, to<br \/>\nsubdue mortals and have dominion over them permanently, and I divide the two thousand<br \/>\nmillion betwixt ye twain. But all other angels shall remain in my heavenly kingdom and<br \/>\nwork for me, and embellish it, and beautify my heavenly cities, especially my holy<br \/>\ncapital.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. Now, when ye twain are permanent on the earth, and secured in the temples and<br \/>\noracles, ye shall survey all the lands of Vind&#8217;yu, and the cities, large and small, and all the<br \/>\npeople therein. And, behold, all men shall be subdued unto my two names, Sudga and<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">Dyaus; and when a city standeth, wherein the people worship any other Gods or Lords,<br \/>\nthat city shall ye destroy, and all the people therein. City against city shall it be, man<br \/>\nagainst man; for as I am the all highest God of heaven, so will I be the God of earth, and<br \/>\nits Lord. And ye twain, in finding two cities to be destroyed, shall divide, one going with<br \/>\nhis angel warriors to one city, and the other to the other city; and ye shall inspire them<br \/>\nagainst each other unto death; and when they are laid low, ye shall bring into the place, to<br \/>\ninhabit it, my worshippers.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. Thus descended to the earth the two destroying captain Gods, Varsa and Baktu,<br \/>\nwith their two thousand million angel warriors. And they spread out about over the<br \/>\nland of Vind&#8217;yu, where were many kingdoms and thousands of cities; and they came<br \/>\nto mortals asleep or awake, and inspired them to havoc and destruction, for Sudga&#8217;s sake.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. And there were laid in ruins, in twelve years, forty thousand cities, of which thirty-seven were great cities. And chief of these were Yadom, Watchada, Cvalaka, Hoce-te, Hlumivi, Ctdar and Yigam, each of which contained more than one million souls, and<br \/>\nsome of them two millions.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. In all of these there were places of great learning, and schools, and temples of sacrifice<br \/>\n(worship). In Ctdar the roof of the temple was made of silver and copper and gold; and it<br \/>\nhad one thousand columns of polished stone, and five hundred pillars to support the roof.<br \/>\nThe walls were covered with tapestry, painted with written words and histories of heaven<br \/>\nand earth, and of the Gods and Lords and Saviors of the ancients. Within the temple were<br \/>\nseven altars of sacrifice, and four thousand basins of holy water for baptismal rites.<br \/>\nWithin the walls of the temple were niches for five hundred priests, for the confession of<br \/>\nsins, and for receiving the money and cloth and fruits of the earth, contributed by the<br \/>\npenitent for the remission of their sins. Through the central passage within the temple<br \/>\ndrove the king in his golden chariot, when he came for sacrifice; and the floor of this<br \/>\npassage was laid with silver and gold.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. In the center of the temple floor was a basin filled with water, and the size of the basin<br \/>\nwas equal to twenty lengths of a man. In the middle of the basin was a fountain throwing<br \/>\nup water. And on the east and west and north and south sides of the basin were four<br \/>\npillars of polished stone, with stairs within them; and the tops of these pillars were<br \/>\nconnected by beams of inlaid wood of many colors, polished finely, which were called<br \/>\nthe Holy Arch of Suh-hagda. On the summit of the arch was a small house called the<br \/>\nVoice of the Oracle, for here sat the king&#8217;s interpreter of heaven and earth, the reader of<br \/>\nvisions. And the spirits of the dead appeared in the spray of the fountain, sometimes as<br \/>\nstars of light and sometimes in their own forms and features, and were witnessed by the<br \/>\nmultitude.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. Within each of the five hundred pillars was a sacred chamber, for benefit of<br \/>\nthe priests communing with angels. In the east pillar was an opening from top to<br \/>\nbottom, a slatway so the multitude could see through the pillar, which was hollow<br \/>\nits entire height. This was occupied by te king&#8217;s high priest or priestess, as the case<br \/>\nmight be, and this person had attained to adeptship, so that the angels could carry<br \/>\nhim up and down within the pillar, even to the top thereof, which was equal to fifty<br \/>\nlengths of a man. And the multitude thus beheld him ascending and descending.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. In the west pillar was the library of the temple, which contained a history of its<br \/>\nimportant events for a period of eight hundred years; of the priest and high priests, and of<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">the kings of the city.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. Next to the Temple, which was called Tryista, stood the House of Learning, where<br \/>\ncongregated the wise men and women, skilled in philosophy and music and astronomy<br \/>\nand mineralogy. The House was made of polished stone and wood interlocked, and in the<br \/>\nfront with one hundred and forty columns of polished stone and wood. Within the house<br \/>\nwere the skins and bones of thousands of creatures, ancient and modern, which wre<br \/>\nclassified and named; and with these were books of philosophy and history, all of which<br \/>\nwere free to the public one day in seven. Next to the House of Learning was the Temple<br \/>\nof Death, dedicated to all kinds of battles, battles betwixt lions and men, tigers and men,<br \/>\nand betwixt lions and tigers, and elephants, and betwixt man and man. And so great was<br \/>\nthe Temple of Death that its seats could accommodate three hundred thousand men,<br \/>\nwomen and children. The temple was circular, and without a roof over the arena. But the<br \/>\ngreatest of all buildings in Ctdar was the king&#8217;s palace, commonly called T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">EMPLE OF THE<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">S<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">UN. <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">This was also made of polished stone, and on the four sides had eight hundred<br \/>\ncolumns of polished stone; and next to the columns were fifty pillars, on every side<br \/>\nconnected by arches twelve lengths high, whereon rested a roof of wood and stone; and<br \/>\nyet on this was surmounted another row of four hundred columns of polished wood,<br \/>\ninlaid with silver and gold, and these were connected to the top by other arches ten<br \/>\nlengths high, and on these another roof, and on the top of this a dome covered with gold<br \/>\nand silver and copper. From the arena to the dome the height was twenty-eight lengths,<br \/>\nand the base of the dome across was sixteen lengths. To enter the temple from the west<br \/>\nwas a chariot roadway, so that the king and his visitors could drive up into the arena of<br \/>\nthe palace in their chariots. But as for the interior of the king&#8217;s palace, a whole book might<br \/>\nbe written in the description thereof, and yet not tell half its richness and beauty and<br \/>\nmagnificence.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. Besides these great buildings there were four hundred and fifty Temples of Darkness,<br \/>\ndedicated to the spirits of the dead. These were without any opening save the door, and<br \/>\nwhen the communers were within, and the door shut, they were without light. In the midst<br \/>\nof these temples, spirits and mortals congregated, and the spirits taught mortals the art of<br \/>\nmagic; of making seeds grow into trees and flowers; of producing serpents by force of the<br \/>\nwill; of carrying things through the air; casting sweet perfumes, and casting foul smells;<br \/>\nof casting virus to one&#8217;s enemy, and inoculating him with poison unto death; of<br \/>\nfinding things lost, of bringing money to the poor, and flowers and food to the sick;<br \/>\nof entering the dead sleep, and of becoming unconscious to pain by force of the will.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. Nor could any man or woman attain to be a priest in the Temple of Tryista until he<br \/>\nmastered all the degrees in the Temples of Darkness.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. The angels of Sudga decided to destroy this city; and, accordingly, they inspired a war<br \/>\nbetwixt it and the city of Yadom, which was second unto it in magnificence, and<br \/>\npossessed of temples and palaces like unto it also. Yea, but to describe one of these great<br \/>\ncities was to describe the other, as to mortal glory. For seven hundred years had these<br \/>\ncities lain in peace with each other, half a day&#8217;s journey apart, on the great river, Euvisij,<br \/>\nin the Valley of Rajawichta.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. And the captain God, Varsa, chose one city, and the captain God, Bactu, chose the<br \/>\nother city; and each of them took from their thousand million angel warriors a sufficient<br \/>\nnumber, and inspired the two great cities unto everlasting destruction. Even as mortals<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">turn savage beasts into an arena, to witness them tear and flay each other, even so sat<br \/>\nthese captain Gods in their heavenly chariots, witnessing the two great cities in mortal<br \/>\ncombat. And when one had too much advantage, the angel hosts would turn the tide, or<br \/>\nlet them rest awhile; then urge them to it again, holding the game in such even balance as<br \/>\nwould insure the greatest possible havoc to both.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. Eight years these battles lasted; and hundreds of thousands of men, women and<br \/>\nchildren were slain; and when thus the great cities were reduced, the Gods let loose T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">HE<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">B<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">AND OF <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">D<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">EATH<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">, whose angel office was to carry poison virus from the rotten dead and<br \/>\ninoculate the breath of the living; and then in desperate madness make mortals fire their<br \/>\ncities, to keep them from falling into other hands. And in eight years the great cities,<br \/>\nwith their mighty temples, were turned to ruin and to dust; and of the people left,<br \/>\nonly the ignorant few, starving, helpless wanderers, could tell the tale of what had been.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">19. Sudga had said: All knowledge amongst mortals is inimical to the Gods in heaven;<br \/>\ntherefore I will destroy all knowledge on the earth. And this was the same doctrine<br \/>\nmaintained by Te-in, God of Jaffeth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">20. In such manner proceeded the captain Gods of Sudga over all the land of Vind&#8217;yu,<br \/>\nlaying low all kingdoms, and cities, and places of sacrifice, and places of learning. And in<br \/>\none hundred years the mighty people of Vind&#8217;yu were reduced to beggary, and to scattered<br \/>\ntribes of wanderers. The great canals were destroyed, and the upper and lower country<br \/>\nbecame places of famine and barrenness. And in the valleys and on the mountains, in<br \/>\nthe abandoned fields and in the wildernesses, lay the bones and skulls of millions of<br \/>\nthe human dead. And lions and tigers came and prowled about in the ruined walls of<br \/>\nthe fallen temples and palaces. Nor were there left in all the land a single library, or<br \/>\nbook, or the art of making books, or anything to show what the great history had been.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">21. Thus perished the Vedic language, the language of song and poetry, and of great<br \/>\noratory. Save in a small degree, such as was preserved by the remnant of Faithists who<br \/>\nhad escaped through all these generations, still in secret worshipping the Great Spirit.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">22. Hear ye next of Osiris and his dominions, and of Arabin&#8217;ya, and Parsi&#8217;e, and Heleste:<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekday Sabbath Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter 45, Chapter 46 Chapter 45 1. Jehovih suffered the self-Gods to prosper for more than four hundred years; and Te-in, and Sudga, and Osiris became the mightiest Gods that ever ruled on the earth. 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