{"id":1440,"date":"2020-06-30T23:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T23:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2020-06-30T23:59:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T23:59:01","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-july-1st-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2020\/06\/30\/lectionary-readings-for-wednesday-july-1st-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Wednesday, July 1st, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

God’s Book of Ben, the Nine Entities Chapter 5, Chapter 6<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 5<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Jehovih said: In the time I created life on the earth, and in the waters, and in the air
\nabove the earth; I brought the earth into hyarti for a thousand years.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. And the earth gave out light because of the darkness of the heavenly forests whither I
\nhad brought her.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Man said: To know the beginning of things; what greater delight than this?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. To know when the earth was made; and how the living were created!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. The thousands of millions of kinds and species!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. God said: Was not this answered unto thee? According to the light that man was
\ncapable of receiving, so was he answered.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Man inquired: But why was not the truth told? Why the six days? And why the rib?<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>8. God said: That which man can accept, and is good for him, is given unto him. That
\nwhich man can not comprehend, can not be revealed to him.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Behold, even now, as hath been shown, thou usest false symbols to illustrate the
\nnumber ten.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Wouldst thou make man worship angels because they took on forms by his side?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Then thou wouldst lose influence over him, and angels would be his guides.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. All teaching shall be to make man comprehend the Almighty’s dominion upon man.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Symbols and images that do this, are true lights, though false in fact.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Man said: How shall man find light, knowledge, wisdom, truth? Is there no all
\nteacher? Learning is void, because based on false grounds? The senses are void, because
\nthey themselves are perishable and imperfect?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. The insane man knoweth not his insanity. May not any man be also insane, and know
\nit not?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Where shall man find a true standing point to judge from?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Uz said: All thou seest and hearest, O man, are but transient and delusive. Even thine
\nown corporeal senses change every day.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. To-day thou triest to raise up thy son in a certain way; but when thou art old, thou wilt
\nsay: Alas, I taught him differently from what I would now.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. Man inquired: Is this not then the best course, to devote myself wholly to doing good?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. Es answered: Who shall tell thee what doing good is? Knowest thou?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. Man said: To provide the best of everything for my wife, and for my sons and
\ndaughters, and contribute to the poor.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. Es said: Hadst thou created man, thou hadst given him hair or feathers and a cushion
\nfor his head?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. Bethink thee, then. Give thou one thing too much to thy wife and sons and daughters,
\nthereby preventing the calling out of their own talents, and, alas, thy works will be bad
\ninstead of good.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. Contribute to the poor one fraction too much, and thou injure instead of doing good.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

25. Give him one fraction too little, and thou shalt rebuke thyself.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

26. Man inquired: What, then, are good works? Shall I preach and pray for others?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

27. God said: Man, thou shalt judge thyself as to what thou shalt do.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

28. Within every man’s soul, Jehovih hath provided a judge that will soon or late become
\ntriumphant in power.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

29. Man said: Hear me: I am tired of reason and argument.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

30. Now will I covenant with Jehovih. He only shall answer me; He will give me light:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

31. To Thee, O Jehovih, I commit myself, to be Thine forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

32. To serve Thee by doing nothing for mine own selfish ends; but by doing the best I can
\nfor others, all my days.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

33. My flesh body will I baptize every day in remembrance of Thee; for my body is
\nThine, and I will keep it clean and pure before Thee.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

34. Neither will I suffer my spiritual body to be injured by wicked thoughts or passions of
\nlust; for my spirit is Thy gift to me also.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

35. Twice every day shall my spirit body be covenanted to Thee, in which times all
\nearthly thoughts shall depart away from me. And whatsoever light Thou bestowest on me,
\nthat shall be a guide and ruler over me for the day thereof.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>36. In the morning at sunrise will I turn to Thee, that I may be spurred up to swiftness in
\ndoing good and in manifesting Thy light in my behavior. And at night before I sleep will I
\nrecount my day’s labor, that I may see wherein I was short in doing with all my wisdom
\nand strength.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

37. Thou, O Jehovih, shalt be my Confessor and Advisor; to Thee will I give praise
\nwithout ceasing. My prayers and anthems to Thee shall be without number. This do I
\nperceive is the highest of all aspiration.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

38. For what better is it for God or the spirits of the dead to tell me a thing than for
\nmortals to tell me? Is not all wisdom necessary to be proved within each and every man?
\nIs it not better that my vision reach up to heaven and see it myself, than to be told of it by
\nthe angels?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

39. It is wiser for mortals to become pure as angels, than for angels to become impure as
\nmortals. Nay, I will not drag the spirits of the higher heavens down to the earth. If they
\ncame and told me, it would be but hearsay testimony at best.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

40. I will commune with them and weigh their words, as to whether they be wise and
\nadapted to founding Thy kingdom on earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

41. Am I not done, O Jehovih? Thou hast sealed up thy kingdoms from me. Henceforth I
\nwill neither preach nor hear preaching. Only to labor and to do good, and be in peace
\nwithin my own soul, and with my neighbors, and to glorify Thee.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

42. I will do no more, nor will I multiply words with any one under the sun.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 6<\/span>
\n<\/span>1. God said: I declare in the name of Jehovih, the Whole. Through Him, and by His hand
\nhave I been lifted up. hear me, O mortals! Give ear, O ye spirits of the dead! The Father
\nhath spoken; Him do I reveal; in Him bestow the tree of light.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. I was in darkness, but am now in light. His presence is upon me. Hearken, then, to my
\nwords, and be wise in your lives.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Seek not to disprove Him; seek not to prove that these things can not be; seek not to
\ndeny His person, nor His spirit. Of such was my bondage. In bitterness of heart was I
\nbound in darkness. Those who deny, those who try to disprove Him, are in darkness.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. He is the same to-day and forever. The prophets of old found Him; so also can ye. But
\nHe cometh not to the denier, nor to the disprover.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. He who will find His Person must look for Him. He who will hear His Voice must
\nhearken. Then cometh light.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. All argument is void. There is more wisdom in the song of a bird than in the speech of
\na philosopher. The first speaketh to the Almighty, proclaiming his glory. The second
\nploddeth in darkness.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. By my hand were the ancient libraries burnt, to draw man away from darkness.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Kosmon said: What hath great learning found that is valuable?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Shall learning, like riches, be acquired for one’s own selfish gratification?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. If a rich man with his horded wealth do little for the resurrection of man, how much
\nless doth the learned man with a head full of knowledge? It neither feedeth nor clotheth
\nthe sick and distressed, nor stayeth the debauchery and drunkenness of the great
\nmultitude.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>11. How shall we class the man of exact science? Where shall we find him? How shall
\nwe know that he will not be disproved in time to come?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Yesterday it was said, a man can not fast forty days and live; to-day it is proven
\npossible.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Yesterday it was said, there is attraction of gravitation betwixt the sun and the earth;
\nto-day it is proven that there is no such thing. That no man can see without eyes or hear
\nwithout ears, in su’is (clairvoyance and clairaudience); to-day hundreds of thousands
\nknow it to be so.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Yesterday it was said, thou shalt eat flesh and oil, because they supply certain things
\nfor the blood, without which man can not live; to-day it is proven otherwise.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Yesterday the physician said: Take thou this, and it will heal thee; to-day the same
\nthing is proven to have no virtue.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. This only is proven: That man is vain and conceited, desiring to make others believe
\nhe is wise when he is not.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. What healed the sick yesterday, will not to-morrow.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. Philosophy that was good yesterday, is folly to-day.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. Religions that were good for the ancients are worthless to-day.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. Crime and pauperism grow up in the heart of them, even worse than in the regions of
\nthe earth where they are not preached.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. The physicians have not lessened the amount of sickness on the earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. The lawyers have not lessened the rascality of the wicked, or depleted the number of
\ndefrauders.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. The march of Jehovih and His peoples is onward; it is like a tree of light, forever
\ngrowing, but man heedeth not the growth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. Man bindeth his judgment by things that are past; he will not quicken himself to see
\nand understand the All Light.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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