{"id":1352,"date":"2020-05-28T21:41:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T21:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2020-05-28T21:41:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T21:41:55","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-friday-may-29th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/05\/28\/lectionary-readings-for-friday-may-29th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Friday, May 29th, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter 49, Chapter 50<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 49<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. Osiris then instructed King Thothma to drive out of the land of Egupt all the Faithists,<br \/>\nespecially the shepherd kings, who could not be made slaves of.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. Thothma impressed an army of two hundred thousand warriors, and drove off<br \/>\nthe shepherd kings, putting to death more than three hundred thousand of them. And<br \/>\nfrom the Faithists he took all their possessions, such as houses and lands, and suffered<br \/>\nthem not to hold any mortal thing in possession; neither permitting them to till the<br \/>\nsoil, save as servants, nor to engage in any other labor save as servants. And there went<br \/>\nout of the land of Egupt, to escape the tyranny of Thothma, three millions of Faithists,<br \/>\nincluding the shepherd kings, the unlearned. And in regard to the Faithists, who remained<br \/>\nin the land of Egupt, Osiris, through king Thothma, made the following laws, to wit:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. Thou shalt not possess any land, nor house, nor ox, nor any beast of burden,<br \/>\nnor cow, nor calf, nor shall thy people possess an altar of worship, nor temple, nor<br \/>\nplace of sacred dance. But a servant and a servant of servants shalt thou be all the<br \/>\ndays of thy life. But in thy sleeping place and in the sleeping place of thy family<br \/>\nthou shalt do worship in thine own way, nor shall any man molest thee therein.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. Thou shalt not profess openly thy doctrines under penalty of thy blood and thy flesh;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">nor shalt thou teach more in the schools or colleges; nor shall thy children receive great<br \/>\nlearning. And of thy arts, of measuring and working numbers, thou shalt not keep them<br \/>\nsecret longer, or thy blood be upon thee.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. And if thou sayest: Behold, the Great Spirit; or Jehovih, the Ever Present, thou shalt<br \/>\nsuffer death, and thy wife and thy children with thee. And if a man query, to try thee,<br \/>\nasking: Who created the world? thou shalt answer: Behold, God! And if he should further<br \/>\nask: Thinkest thou the Creator is Ever Present? thou shalt say: Nay, but as a man that hath<br \/>\nfinished his labor, he sitteth on his throne in heaven. And if he further ask thee: Where is<br \/>\nGod? thou shalt answer: On the Mountain Hored, in heaven. And if he still further ask<br \/>\nthee: Is the Ever Present a Person? thou shalt say: Nay, the Ever Present is void like the<br \/>\nwind; there is but one ruler in heaven and earth, even Osiris, who is Lord the God, Savior<br \/>\nof men.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. Who else but doeth these things shall be put to death; whoso boweth not unto<br \/>\nThothma, my earthly ruler, shall not live, saith God.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. These laws were entered in the libraries of Egupt, and also proclaimed publicly by the<br \/>\nscribes and seers. And yet with these restrictions upon them there remained in the land of<br \/>\nEgupt more than two million Faithists.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. And it came to pass that Thothma began the building of the T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">EMPLE OF <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">O<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">SIRIS <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">(pyramid),<br \/>\nand he impressed two hundred thousand men and women in the building thereof, of<br \/>\nwhich number more than one-half were Faithists. And these laborers were divided into<br \/>\ngroups of twelves and twenty-fours and forty-eights, and so on, and each group had a<br \/>\ncaptain; but for series of groups of one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight men and<br \/>\nwomen, there were generals, and for every six generals there was one marshal, and for<br \/>\nevery twelve marshals was one chief, and these chiefs were of the Privy Council of the<br \/>\nking.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. And the king allotted to every chief a separate work; some to dig canals, some to<br \/>\nquarry stone, and some to hew the stones; some to build boats, some to provide rollers,<br \/>\nand others timbers, and yet others capstans.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. Two places the surveyors found stone with which to build the temple, one was<br \/>\nabove the banks of the great river, Egon, at the foot of Mount Hazeka, and the other<br \/>\nwas across the Plains of Neuf, in the Mountains of Aokaba. From the headwaters of<br \/>\nEgon a canal was made to Aokaba, and thence by locks descended to the Plains of<br \/>\nNeuf, and thence to Gakir, the place chosen by the king for the temple to be built.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. And as for the logs used in building, they were brought down the waters of Egon,<br \/>\neven from the forests of Gambotha and Rugzak. These logs were tied together and floated<br \/>\non the water to the place required, where, by means of capstans, they were drawn out of<br \/>\nthe water ready for use.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. As for the stones of the temple they were hewn in the region of the quarries. And<br \/>\nwhen properly dressed, were placed on slides by capstans, and then, by capstans, let down<br \/>\nthe mountain sides, to the water, whereon they were to float to the place required for<br \/>\nthem.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. The floats were made of boards sawed by men skilled in the work, and were of<br \/>\nsufficient length and width to carry the burden designed. And at the bottom of the floats<br \/>\nwere rollers, gudgeoned at the ends. Now when a stone was let down from the place of its<br \/>\nhewing on to the float, it was ready to be carried to its destination. And when the float<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">thus arrived near Gakir, ropes, made of hemp and flax, were fastened to the float, and, by<br \/>\nmeans of capstans on the land, the float was drawn up an inclined plane out of the water,<br \/>\nthe rollers of the float answering as wheels.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. When all things were in readiness for building the temple, the king himself, being<br \/>\nlearned in all philosophies, proceeded to lay the foundation, and to give instruction as to<br \/>\nthe manner of building it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. These were the instruments used by the king and his workmen: The gau, the length,<br \/>\nthe square, the compass, and the plumb and line. Nor were there any other instruments of<br \/>\nmeasure or observation used in the entire building of the temple. And, as to the measure<br \/>\ncalled <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">A LENGTH, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">it was the average length of a man, after trying one thousand men.<br \/>\nThis was divided into twelve parts, and these parts again into twelve parts, and so on.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. After the first part of the temple was laid, the builders of the inclined plane began to<br \/>\nbuild it also, but it was built of logs. And when it was raised a little, another layer of the<br \/>\ntemple was built. Then again the inclined plane was built higher, and another layer of the<br \/>\ntemple built; and so on, the inclined plane, which was of wood, was built up even the<br \/>\nsame as was the temple.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. The width of the inclined plane was the same as the width of the temple, but the<br \/>\nwhole length of the inclined plane was four hundred and forty lengths (of a man). Up this<br \/>\ninclined plane the floats, with the stones thereon, were drawn by means of capstans and<br \/>\nby men and women pulling also.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. For four and twenty years was Thothma building the temple; and then it was<br \/>\ncompleted. But it required other half a year to take away the inclined plane used in<br \/>\nbuilding it. After that it stood free and clear, the greatest building that had ever been built<br \/>\non the earth or ever would be.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">19. Such, then, was Thothma&#8217;s T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">EMPLE OF <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">O<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">SIRIS<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">THE <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">G<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">REAT <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">P<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">YRAMID<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">20. Jehovih had said: Suffer them to build this, for the time of the building is midway<br \/>\nbetwixt the ends of the earth; yea, now is the extreme of the earth&#8217;s corporeal growth; so<br \/>\nlet it stand as a monument of the greatest corporeal aspiration of man. For from this time<br \/>\nforth man shall seek not to build himself everlastingly on the earth, but in heaven. All<br \/>\nthese things shall be testimony that in the corporeal age of the earth man was of like<br \/>\naspiration, and in the spiritual age of man in an opposite condition of corporeal<br \/>\nsurroundings; for by the earth I prove what was; and by man prove what the earth was and<br \/>\nis at certain periods of time.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chapter 50<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1. When the temple was completed, and the king and his four high priests entered into the<br \/>\nHoly Chamber, the false Osiris, through his servant God, Egupt, came in sar&#8217;gis, and<br \/>\nspake unto the king, saying: Here am I, O king!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">2. Thothma said: My labor is well recompensed. That thou hast come to me, O Lord<br \/>\nmy God, I am blessed. Osiris said: Keep holy my chambers; suffer no man, nor<br \/>\nwoman, nor child, that dwelleth on the face of the earth, to know the mysteries of<br \/>\nthese, my holies, save and except my adepts. Here layeth the key of everlasting life.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">3. Thothma said: How sayest thou, the key of everlasting life? Osiris said: Herein is that<br \/>\nwhich is of good and evil, as I commanded thy forefathers; to eat whereof man shall<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">become as Gods, and live forever. For this is the triumph of man over death, even for<br \/>\nwhich I created him on the earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">4. Thothma said: Shall only we five know these things? Osiris said: Nay, verily; else<br \/>\nthe light of my kingdom would not be full. Behold, thou, how I built the temple! Was<br \/>\nit not in the keeping of adepts? So, then, as I have given unto thee to know my<br \/>\nkingdom, thou shalt give unto others, not suffering these lights to come, save through<br \/>\nmy commandments.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">5. Now in the second month after the temple was completed, Thothma, the king, having<br \/>\nput the affairs of his kingdom in order, went into the H<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">OLY <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">C<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">HAMBER<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">, and thence<br \/>\nascended into the C<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">HAMBER OF <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">L<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">IFE AND <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">D<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">EATH<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">, leaving the four chief priests in the Holy<br \/>\nChamber. And Thothma <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">CAST HIMSELF IN DEATH <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">(dormancy) by swallowing his tongue.<br \/>\nWhereupon the priests closed the entrance and sealed the king within.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">6. Osiris, through his servant God, Egupt, said unto the priests: One alone shall remain; in<br \/>\nquarter-watch shall ye dwell within the Holy Chamber, and I will remain also. And the<br \/>\npriests cast lots, and divided the watch in six hours each, unto every day. And Osiris sent<br \/>\nBaal to the spirit of Thothma, and took him to Agho&#8217;aden, Osiris&#8217;heavenly place, showing<br \/>\nthe spirit unto the glory of the throne, saying: Behold the God of Gods. Thothma said: It<br \/>\nis a great glory; lo, mine eyes are blinded by the light of the Lord my God. After this, Baal<br \/>\ntook the soul of Thothma into a thousand heavenly places in Osiris&#8217;kingdom, and showed<br \/>\nhim the glory thereof.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">7. Thothma said unto Baal: Thou angel of God, thou hast shown me, of a truth, God is in<br \/>\nthe image of man. Nor is there any but one God, who ruleth over all.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">8. Baal said: How sayest thou then; who is God? Thothma said: How sayest thou? For<br \/>\nbehold, his glory was so great I could not look upon him.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">9. Then answered Baal, saying: Only angels and mortals; these are the sum of all things.<br \/>\nHe, thou hast looked upon, was even as thou art; a one-time mortal on a far-off starworld. He attained unto the Godhead, to create a world unto himself, even as thou, who art an adept, canst create flowers and plants and serpents. Thus he came into the void<br \/>\nregions of space and created the earth and her heavens, and they belong unto him, for they<br \/>\nare his. And in like manner is every star-world, created and ruled by a God like unto thy<br \/>\nGod, who is Lord of all.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">10. Thothma said: O that all people knew these things! O that I may remember them<br \/>\nwhen I am returned to earth. Baal said: More than this shalt thou remember; for I will<br \/>\nnow take thee to the hells of the idolaters and the Jehovihians. Baal then took the soul of<br \/>\nThothma to the hells of De&#8217;yus, and showed him the horrors thereof. But he took him not<br \/>\nto the regions of God, in Craoshivi.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">11. Now when Thothma had traveled in heaven for thirty days, Baal brought his spirit<br \/>\nback to the Chamber of Death, and showed him how to regain his corporeal part, the<br \/>\nwhich he did. And then Baal signaled unto Egupt, and the latter spake to the priest on<br \/>\nwatch, saying: Behold, Thothma hath returned; go thou and fetch thy brother, and deliver<br \/>\nhim into the Holy Chamber.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">12. And when they came they unloosed the sealing stones and delivered the king into the<br \/>\nHoly Chamber, and he was awake from his trance, and remembered all he had seen in<br \/>\nheaven, which he related to the high priests who were with him. And both Baal and Egupt<br \/>\ncame in sar&#8217;gis and talked in the Holy Chamber with Thothma and the priests. For one<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">day the king remained in the Holy Chamber, that his spirit be reconciled to the flesh; and<br \/>\non the next day he and the priests came forth out of the temple and sealed the door<br \/>\nthereof, and placed the king&#8217;s guard in charge, that no man or woman might molest the<br \/>\nplace. Now Thothma had been in the death trance forty days.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">13. The three angels, Egupt, Baal and Ashtaroth, came into the altar in the king&#8217;s palace<br \/>\nthat night, and showed themselves to the college students who had attained <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ADEPT. <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Baal<br \/>\nspake orally before them, directing his words to the king, saying: Behold, I am the angel<br \/>\nof God thy Lord, whom thou hast beholden in heaven; I am the same who traveled in<br \/>\nheaven with thee. What I speak, I say in the name of the Lord our God, whose servant I<br \/>\nam. On the morrow shall thy high priests draw lots, and one of them shall enter the<br \/>\nChamber of Holies, in the Osirian Temple, and do even as thou hast. And after him,<br \/>\nbehold, another of the high priests shall do likewise; and so on, until the four have had<br \/>\nthy experience.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">14. And it came to pass that the four priests in turn <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">CAST THEMSELVES IN DEATH, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">and visited<br \/>\nOsiris&#8217;heavenly kingdoms, and also many of the hells of De&#8217;yus, being led in spirit by<br \/>\nBaal or Ashtaroth, Egupt being the guardian God of the temple.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">15. When they had thus accumulated the same knowledge of heaven and earth, the five of<br \/>\nthem were of one mind as to attaining life everlasting in the corporeal body. Osiris said:<br \/>\nBehold, I will bring many back who are already dead; and they shall call unto their<br \/>\nembalmed bodies and wake them up and inhabit them. Go ye, then, to the root of the<br \/>\nmatter, and prepare my people, for I will come in person and inhabit the temple ye have<br \/>\nbuilt; and my heavenly kingdom shall descend even to the earth. Prepare ye the C<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">OLUMN<br \/>\nOF <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">S<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">TARS<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">16. Thothma built a column to the east line of the slat, seven lengths, and the height was<br \/>\nthirty-six lengths; of wood and stone built he it, with an opening from the bottom to the<br \/>\ntop, and the width of the opening was six lengths. In the walls thereof was a winding<br \/>\nstairway, and there were windows looking out to the east and west and north and south,<br \/>\nthat the stars from every quarter might be observed. On the summit of the column were<br \/>\ndwelling-places for the seers and mathematicians, with places for the measuring<br \/>\ninstruments and lenses.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">17. When this was completed, Thothma built of wood and stone an external wall across<br \/>\nthe slat of the temple; and within this wall were stairs also, and these led to the top of the<br \/>\npyramid. This wall was also provided with windows, that the northern stars might be<br \/>\nobserved.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">18. Thothma made an observing column for the sun, and it was provided with lenses of<br \/>\nall colors, so that adepts standing at the base of the pyramid could see the sun at every<br \/>\nhour of the day, and distinguish the spots and their changes. A gau was set within each of<br \/>\nthe angles of observation, that the relative position of the sun with northern stars could be<br \/>\ndetermined every day.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">19. By these two columns, therefore, Thothma and his mathematicians measured the sun<br \/>\nand moon and stars, as to the distances and sizes thereof. And Osiris commanded the king<br \/>\nto send into the far-off lands of the earth his wisest mathematicians, to observe the winds<br \/>\nof heaven, and the drought upon the earth; and the abundance of the yield of the earth in<br \/>\ndifferent regions, in different years and seasons; and to observe famines and pestilences,<br \/>\nand all manner of occurrences on the face of the earth. He said unto the king: When thy<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">mathematicians are returned to thee with their accumulated wisdom, thou, or thy<br \/>\nsuccessor, shall examine the sun and the stars and moon, as compared to the things<br \/>\nwhereof the mathematicians shall relate, one year with another; and three years with<br \/>\nanother three years, and five with five, and seven with seven, and so on for hundreds of<br \/>\nyears, and thousands of years.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">20. And when thou hast taken in the term of three thousand three hundred years, and<br \/>\ncompared the sun and moon and stars, as relate to the occurrences of the earth, thou shalt<br \/>\nhave the key of prophecy for three thousand three hundred years ahead. And thou shalt<br \/>\nsay of this land and of that land; and of this people and that people, how it will be with<br \/>\nthem, and thou shalt not err.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">21. Thothma, the king, called together his mathematicians, and, according to their grade,<br \/>\nchose from amongst them twelve hundred. These he divided into groups of one hundred<br \/>\neach; and he gave them a sufficient number of attendants; and he sent them toward all the<br \/>\nsides of the world, allotting to them sixteen years each for observation, according to the<br \/>\ncommandments.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">22. And they took with them all kinds of instruments to measure with, besides scribes to<br \/>\nmake the records of such matters as came before them. And they went throughout<br \/>\nArabin&#8217;ya, and Vind&#8217;yu, and Jaffeth, and Parsi&#8217;e, and Heleste, and Uropa, even across to<br \/>\nthe western sea; and to the south extreme of Arabin&#8217;ya, and to the great kingdoms of the<br \/>\ninterior, and to the north of Heleste and Parsi&#8217;e, and Jaffeth, to the regions of everlasting<br \/>\nsnow.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">23. And in sixteen and seventeen years they returned, save some who died on the<br \/>\njourneys. And most wonderful was the knowledge these mathematicians gained. In some<br \/>\ncountries they found philosophers who had the knowledge required even at their tongues&#8217;<br \/>\nend. Thothma received them in great pomp and glory, and awarded all of them with great<br \/>\nriches.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">24. And Thothma had these things rewritten and condensed into books, and named them<br \/>\nbooks of great learning, and they were deposited within the south chamber of the<br \/>\npyramid, where never harm could come to them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">25. And Thothma made it a law, that other mathematicians should travel over the same<br \/>\nregions for other sixteen years and make like observations; and after them, yet other<br \/>\nmathematicians to succeed them, and so on for three thousand three hundred years. And<br \/>\naccordingly, a new expedition started forth. Now during the absence of the first<br \/>\nmathematicians, Thothma and his philosophers observed the sun and moon and stars<br \/>\nevery day, and a record was made thereof, as to the earth in the regions of Thothma&#8217;s<br \/>\nhome kingdom. And these observations were reduced to tablets and maps, and a record<br \/>\nmade of them in Parsi&#8217;e&#8217;an language, which was the language of the learned. For the<br \/>\nEguptian language of that day was spoken mostly by the unlearned, and was mixed with<br \/>\nthe Fonecean, a language of sounds.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">26. After the mathematicians returned, Thothma and his philosophers examined the<br \/>\nwhole matter as compared with the maps and tablets of the heavens, and the facts<br \/>\ndeduced therefrom were written in a separate book and called T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">HE <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">P<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">HILOSOPHIES OF <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">G<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">OD AND<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">H<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">IS <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">S<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ON <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">T<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">HOTHMA<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">, K<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ING OF THE <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">E<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ARTH<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">27. Copies of this book were made and sent into the lands of Arabin&#8217;ya, Vind&#8217;yu, Jaffeth,<br \/>\nand Parsi&#8217;e and Heleste, and Uropa, to the priests of God, but the original book was filed<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">in the Holy Chamber, in the Temple of Osiris.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">28. Thothma applied himself to impart wisdom unto all men. And during his reign<br \/>\nhe built in the land of Egupt seventy-seven colleges of Great Learning, twelve colleges<br \/>\nof prophecy, two hundred houses of philosophy, seven adepteries, and three<br \/>\nthousand free schools, and four thousand houses of sacrifice unto Osiris, Savior of men.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">29. Three hundred and forty obelisks to God, thirty triumphal arches to De&#8217;yus, four<br \/>\nthousand oans-nus to the Creator, and these were mounted on pedestals of polished stone,<br \/>\nand stood at the street corners.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">30. And there were graduated to the rank of adept during Thothma&#8217;s reign more than four<br \/>\nthousand men and three hundred women, all capable of the death trance, and of going<br \/>\nabout in spirit. And of these over seven hundred were permitted within thirty years to test<br \/>\nthe cast of the holy chambers in the pyramid. And their spirits were conducted into Osiris&#8217;<br \/>\nheavenly regions, and sojourned there for many days, and returned to their bodies<br \/>\nunharmed. Because of the position of the chambers, there was no action upon their bodies<br \/>\nwhilst in the swoon.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">31. Thus did Thothma prove himself to be one of the wisest and greatest men that<br \/>\never dwelt on the face of the earth. He believed all things the Gods told him,<br \/>\nbelieved he was Thoth re-incarnated, and believed he would never die as to the flesh.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">32. The false Osiris, through his servant God, Egupt, had said to Thothma: This is the<br \/>\nmanner of heaven and earth, as regardeth man: All men are re-incarnated over and over<br \/>\nuntil perfected to immortal flesh; and in that day man hath so perfected his adeptism he<br \/>\ncan remain on earth or ascend to heaven, even when he desireth. Hence of all knowledge,<br \/>\nadeptism is the greatest.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">33. Thothma asked if there were any new creations. Satan prompted Osiris, who said:<br \/>\nNay, thy spirit is old as the earth. At first it was small and round, like a grain of mustard,<br \/>\nonly it was spirit. And the multitude of these seed comprise the All Unseen. When one of<br \/>\nthem taketh root in gestation, then is the beginning. And it is born into the world a frog,<br \/>\nor an ass, or worm, or lion, or small creeping thing; and it liveth its time and dieth. And<br \/>\nthe spirit hieth it back again into another womb, and it is born forth a man low as<br \/>\nto knowledge, evil as to life. And he liveth a time and dieth again; but again the spirit<br \/>\nhieth back to another womb, and it is born forth again, another man, but wiser as to<br \/>\nknowledge, and less evil as to life. And this continueth to hundreds of generations and<br \/>\nto thousands. But he who hath attained adeptship hath it in his power to call forth out<br \/>\nof the earth his own corporeality; he needeth no longer to go through the filth of others.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">34. Thothma was wise even in his belief; for when he was growing old, and beholding<br \/>\nhis flesh sunken, and his eyes growing hollow and dim, and his hands getting withered,<br \/>\nhe inquired of the Gods, saying: I know thou hast taught me truth, O God. I am weak<br \/>\nbefore thee, as to judgment, and curious in my vanity. Osiris said: Speak thou, O king!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">35. Thothma said: By all the force of my will; and by my great learning, I cannot stay the<br \/>\nwithering of the flesh. If, therefore, I already dry up like a mummy, above the power of<br \/>\nmy will, how will it be with me when I am further emaciated?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">36. Satan prompted Osiris to answer the king, and so he said: Until thou art even more<br \/>\nemaciated thou canst not understand the power of thine own soul.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">37. With this the king was reconciled, and even at the time he was tottering on his<br \/>\nlast legs he began to build a new palace, saying: After I have changed this flesh into<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"fontstyle0\">immortal flesh, hither will I come and dwell forever. And I shall be surrounded by adepts,<br \/>\nwise and faultless. And this shall be the first colony of the kind I will build on the earth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">38. But afterward I will build many colonies of like kind; more and more of them, until I<br \/>\nhave all the earth redeemed to immortal flesh. For of such shall be my kingdom, and all<br \/>\nmen and all women on the earth shall own me Lord of all.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">39. Nevertheless, with all Thothma&#8217;s wisdom, and the wisdom of his Gods, he fell on a<br \/>\nstone and died suddenly on the day he was one hundred years old.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapter 49, Chapter 50 Chapter 49 1. Osiris then instructed King Thothma to drive out of the land of Egupt all the Faithists, especially the shepherd kings, who could not be made slaves of. 2. Thothma impressed an army of two hundred thousand warriors, and drove off the shepherd kings, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/05\/28\/lectionary-readings-for-friday-may-29th-2020\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/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-1352","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\/1352","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=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}