{"id":166,"date":"2019-05-03T21:53:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=166"},"modified":"2019-05-03T21:53:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T21:53:14","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-saturday-may-4th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2019\/05\/03\/lectionary-readings-for-saturday-may-4th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Saturday, May 4th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seventh-Day Sabbath<\/em>,<\/p>\n

First Book of God Chapters XXVI, XXVII, and XXVIII<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

1. I’tura, God of evil, dweller in hell, looked over the broad earth; saw the land of
\nGuatama, the mighty races of I’huans. And his mouth watered, like a lion’s when a lamb
\nstandeth before him. I’tura called his legions, tens of thousands of drujas, devils from the
\nregions of hell: Come, he said, I have found a rich feeding place. Behold, I will make my
\nkingdoms wider; spread out the walls of hell and gather in this great harvest of innocent
\nsouls.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Then came I’tura’s hosts of evil, ten times tens of thousands, for such is the nature of
\nspirits and men; call for ten thousand to do a righteous work, and only a hundred come;
\ncall for ten thousand to do an unholy work, and behold, ten times ten thousand come.
\nThey said to I’tura:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. How shall we do? Where strike in? And I’tura, wise in wickedness, said: Go to the
\ntemples, the places of shining copper and silver, to the oracles, and obsess them, every
\none. And when the kings and the learned men come to consult Gitchee, my deadly enemy,
\nassume ye to be Him, and answer them with lies and all manner of unprofitable
\nspeculation; turn them upside down; make them curse Gitchee; make them ask for I’tura.
\nAnd when madness cometh on them, follow ye them to their sleeping couches and
\nwhisper in their souls that their neighbors are their deadly enemies. Incite them to war and
\nto all manner of deeds of death; and when they overturn each other’s kingdoms and
\nhouses, and their dead lie like ashes over all the land, gather ye in their distracted spirits
\nto fill my mighty kingdom with Gitchee’s harvest!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Then answered the hosts of I’tura (who was known in heaven as Ahura): Most mighty
\nGod, what are thy prizes, for the souls of men, for souls to extend thy heavenly kingdom?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. I’tura answered, saying: According to the number of subjects any angel bringeth me,
\nso will I exalt him to be a captain, or a general, or a Lord, or a God, and he shall have
\na sub-kingdom in my heavenly regions, with thousands of servants to do his bidding.
\n6. With that the evil God and his evil spirits fell to work, night and day; and lo and
\nbehold, the fair land of Guatama was overspread with human blood. Fell war spread
\nalong throughout all the mighty kingdoms; kingdom against kingdom; city against city;<\/span>
\nman against man.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. And the holy temples were pulled down or burnt; and the canals broken and wasted;
\nthe cities on fire, and the fields laid desolate. Neither grew there any grain; the grinding
\nmills of the women were silent, like the dead stretched over all the fields!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Into the forest, afar off, fled the women with the children, hungry, weeping, starving.
\nAnd the cities went down; the nations went down; the tribes of men were broken up; only
\nremnants here and there remained. And where had been great and mighty peoples, lay
\nonly heaps of ruins, past the power of man to rebuild.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Then looked down from the highest heaven, the Creator, the Great Spirit; saw the work
\nof desolation; saw I’tura at his bloody work.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. And the Great Spirit cried out with a loud voice, so that the earth and heaven shook
\nwith the power of His voice; sifted all things, as a woman sifteth meal. And He found one
\ngrain of corn not ground by the God of evil, found Honga! The tribes so fast sworn to the
\nGreat Spirit that the evil Gods’and evil spirits’words rolled off and took no hold on them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. The Great Spirit saw the tribes of Honga, they that stuck most to the I’hins, the sacred
\nlittle people, white and yellow, oft marrying with them, thus preserving the stock to the
\nHand and Voice. And He called loud and long:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Honga! Honga! Honga! The Creator would not be put off with silence; called again:
\nHonga! Honga! But He heard only His Own Voice resounding far; knew His mighty
\nPower! Again He called: Honga! Honga! Honga!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. In the first call, I’tura and his evil hosts ran away. In His second call, it was like
\nspring-time, after heavy winter. And in the third call, it was like budding summer. And
\nthere came up a sprout of the seed of Honga, an I’huan; taller than any other man with a
\nbright shining face of copper; shining as if all the destroyed temples glistened in his broad
\nhead.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. And he spake, saying: Here, O Great Spirit, here am I! And the Great Spirit said: Who
\nart thou, My Son? And he answered: I am Son of the Creator. Then asked the Great
\nSpirit: Of what tribe? And he answered: My flesh is nothing; my genealogy is of the
\nspirit. Of the I’hin my mother; of the I’huan my father.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Then said the Creator: For which reason, I name thee Eawahtah, spirit and flesh even
\nbalanced, best of men. Come thou with Me; walk along with Me; thou shalt re-instate the
\ntribes of men; deliver them out of darkness; make them worshipful.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Eawahtah said: I am Thy servant, O Great Spirit. What shall I call Thee, that the tribes
\nof men be no longer distrustful? Then answered the Creator: Call Me after the wind, O
\nEawahtah!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Eawahtah said: How after the wind? The Great Spirit said: Come with Me, My Son.
\nThen Eawahtah walked along and came to a place where the wind blew in the leaves.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. The Creator said: Tell Me, My Son, what saith the wind in the leaves? And answered
\nEawahtah: E! Then the Creator took Eawahtah to the big sea water, and asked: What saith
\nthe wind in the water, My Son?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. And Eawahtah answered: Go! Then took the Creator Eawahtah to the high crags, the
\nrocks above the clouds, piercing, where the wind whistled; and He said: What saith the
\nwind, My Son? And Eawahtah answered: Quim!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. And the Great Spirit said: Call Me Egoquim, O My Son. I am three in One; the earth,
\nand all that is in the earth and on the earth, and all the stars and moon and sun; they are<\/span>
\none of My members. And the air above the earth, the Atontea, is another member of My
\nPerson. And higher yet; in the high place above the air, is the ether; the great penetrator;
\nand that is the third member of My Person. I am everywhere, far and near; all things thine
\neye seeth; all things thine ear heareth are of Me and in Me.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. Whatsoever is one with Me hath no hard labor. Behold the flowers of the field; I
\ncolor them. Behold the ant and the honeybee; I lead them; the bird I teach how to build.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. Man alone is stubborn, setting up ways of his own. O that he could learn to be one
\nwith Me! To move and labor with Me! Then spake Eawahtah, saying: Holy Egoquim! I
\nwill go and teach man, give him Thy words; make him understand.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. Egoquim said: For that labor called I thee forth, made thee tall and handsome, with
\nstrong limbs, and broad shoulders. Come, then, My Son, I will go with thee; into all the
\nlands; amongst all the scattered tribes; thy voice shall be My Voice. So near thee will I
\nstand, when thou openest thy mouth to speak, fear not, I will give thee words; thou shalt
\nnot err.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. Eawahtah inquired: What shall I say; how teach the sons and daughters of men; give
\nme a synopsis?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

25. Egoquim answered Eawahtah, saying:<\/span><\/p>\n

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

1. One Great Person, even Egoquim, Creator and Ruler over all in heaven and earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Him shalt thou have and no other God, nor Lord, nor idol, nor man, nor angel, to
\nworship, forever!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Him shalt thou love above all things in heaven above, or on the earth, or in the waters
\nof the earth!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. And thou shalt teach him to thy children, and command them to teach Him to their
\nchildren, and so on forever!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. And thou shalt swear against all other Gods, and Lords, and idols, to serve them not
\nforever! And the same to thy children, and to their children after them, forever!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. And this is the first Egoquim law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. And thou shalt deal unto all men, and women and children, as justly and as kindly as to
\nthine own mother, out of whose breast thou wert fed when thou wert helpless and of no
\nstrength.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Teaching this to thy children, and to their children after them, forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. And this is the second Egoquim law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. And to the sick and helpless; to the stranger and the man that cometh afar; to the
\nwidow who is destitute; to the child that hath no father; thou shalt be both father
\nand mother to them; and take them into thy house and feed them; and give them skins
\nand cloth to wear; and if they be lost, thou shalt go with them and show them the way.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Commanding these things unto thy children, and to their children after them, forever!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. And this is the third Egoquim law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. And thou shalt not tell lies; nor speak falsely against any man, nor woman, nor child;
\nnor break thy word of promise, even though death come upon thee to induce thee
\notherwise. Unchangeable as the setting and rising sun shall be the word of thy mouth!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. And thou shalt command this to thy children, and to their children after them, forever!<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. And this is the fourth Egoquim law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. And thou shalt not take and possess that which is another’s; nor suffer thy children to
\ndo so, nor their children after them, forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Which is the fifth Egoquim law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. And thou shalt respect the times of woman; and when she is bearing unto thee, thou
\nshalt not lie with her; nor give her heavy labor, nor angry words, nor fret her; but be
\nobedient to her, doing whatsoever she asketh thee to do, for it is her time, and she is thy
\nqueen.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. Teaching this to thy young men and to thy young women, and to theirs that come after
\nthem, forever; for their young are begotten of Me, and I will have them shapely, and
\nstrong, and brave!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. Which is the sixth Egoquim law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. Thou shalt labor six days, but on the seventh day it is the moon’s day, and thou shalt
\nnot labor, nor hunt, nor fish, but go to the altar of thy Creator and dance and sing before
\nMe; and sit in silence to hear My words, which I speak into the souls of men, and of
\nwomen and children.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. Teaching this to thy children, and to their children that come after them, forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. Which is the seventh Egoquim law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. Thou shalt restore the rites and ceremonies of Choe-pan and Annubia-pan on the part
\nI swear thee which thou shalt not restore; which is: Thou shalt not flatten the head to
\nmake a seer, a Haonga, to drive the judgment of the brain away to the prophetic regions.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

25. Teaching these things to thy children, and to their children after them, forever!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

26. Which is the eighth Egoquim law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

27. Then rose up Eawahtah, Son of Egoquim, saying: I am Thy servant! Lead Thou me,
\nfor I am going in Thy name, even to the end of the world!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

28. When thus spake Eawahtah, Son of the Great Spirit, a Light came over him, dazzling,
\nbrilliant, lighting the way, showing him the way.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

29. And so great was the spirit on Eawahtah, that when he came to the river, he rose up
\nlike an angel, sailed over and landed safely on the other side.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

30. Neither knew he whither he was going; knew not the places of the scattered,
\ndestroyed peoples.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

31. And the angels of Egoquim went before him; went into the forests and valleys, calling
\nto the souls of the suffering, starving, dying, saying to them in their despair:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

32. Egoquim, the Mighty, is coming! His Son! Behold Him! He holdeth the keys of
\nYaton’te, the heavenly hunting ground. Come forth from your hiding! Come forth, O My
\nbeloved! It is your Heavenly Father calling.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

33. And the women heard! The little children, with sore, bleeding feet! The proud, brave
\nmen gave ear! They said: Why do we fight? Why do we destroy? It was a wicked God!
\nHe called himself the Savior,–the wicked monster, I’tura!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

34. Then came Eawahtah; came first to the kingdom of Took-shein, and to his queen,
\nChe-guh, in the land Anagoomahaha, the flat-heads. Told them all the words of the Great
\nSpirit, Egoquim.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

35. Then spake Took-shein, saying: To me the Great Spirit hath spoken; told me all the
\nwords thou hast. I know all thou hast said is true. Then spake Che-guh, saying: To me
\nspake Gitchee, the Great Spirit. True are all thy words, O Eawahtah. By thee will all the<\/span>
\nscattered tribes be gathered together. Many tribes will there be of the red man; Egoquim
\nwill be the center, the Mighty Spirit!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

36. Then spake Eawahtah, saying to his good host and hostess: Your place shall be the
\ncentre; from your place I will shoot out around about, always returning, bringing in
\nfollowers.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

37. Whilst they thus talked, a Light came above them. Look, said Took-shein: It is the
\nhand of Egoquim! Look, said Che-guh: It is the Voice of Gitchee! Then spake Eawahtah,
\nseeing more clearly, raised up expressly: It is a ship of fire coming down from heaven! I
\nhear the voices of the angel of Egoquim, the Mighty!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

38. Then Eawahtah went and stood betwixt Took-shein and Che-guh, holding their hands,
\nso the Voice of Egoquim could speak plainly; so he could hear.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

39. Then spake Egoquim, saying, speaking out of the ship of fire:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

40. Yea, My beloved! I am with you! Behold, My worlds are wide and many. When My
\nback is turned, evil Gods come to steal My children; tell them lies to win them; tell them
\nthey are My Sons come to save them!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

41. Hard is the fate of those that worship one God only; but they are Mine. I look around
\nat times; I set the evil Gods flying. Be of strong heart, O My beloved! Many races will
\ncome and go on these lands. But the red man shall possess it: inhabit it far and near. Then
\nshall come another evil God (Christ), to flay and destroy My sons and daughters, to cover
\nall the lands over with pure blood. Then will I come again and rout the evil God, raise up
\nMy sons and daughters, full of glory.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

42. From far over the water will I bring their kindred (Jews), who worship none born of
\nwoman; a wise speaking people. A people that war not; who kill not off weaker nations. I
\nwill come in the Mohawk (Tenonachi), and the Mohegan (Hoochiquis); My hand shall
\nreach around the earth in that day. I will chase away all Gods and Saviors born of woman.
\nOnly the Great Spirit shall all men worship.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

43. Go forth, My son; build wide My foundation; in this land will I found My earthly
\nkingdom.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

44. Then upward rose the ship of heaven; and Eawahtah buckled on his traveling slippers;
\nbade good-by to Took-shein; filled his pockets with the bread of Che-guh; kissed her
\nhand good-by, and started.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

45. For many years traveled Eawahtah, over all the regions of Guatama; teaching,
\ngathering together, swearing the people ever after to be firm to the Great Spirit: made
\nthem swear solemn oaths that never more would they listen to any God save the Creator;
\nmade them swear they would never be caught by another cunning Savior, like I’tura,
\nwhose people delight in war.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

46. Into villages gathered Eawahtah the frightened tribes, and taught them writing and
\nengraving; taught them the secret name of the Great Spirit, Egoquim; and explained to
\nthem the moon, how to keep the seventh day for worship.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

47. The Creator saw the great work of Eawahtah; saw the people gathered together in tens
\nof thousands of places. Then spake the Creator to Eawahtah, saying:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

48. Forty mighty nations shalt thou found, O My son; and every nation shall be an
\nindependent nation; but all the nations shall be united into a brotherhood of nations, as
\n<\/span>ONE <\/span>mighty people, and that one shall be called O-pah-E-go-quim, signifying <\/span>ONE<\/span>. <\/span>For
\nwhen I come in kosmon, My people shall have many states, like unto thine, and their<\/span>
\ncombination shall be called U<\/span>NION<\/span>, <\/span>signifying <\/span>ONE<\/span>. <\/span>Build thou a model for them, O
\nEawahtah. For, though when they come they shall overthrow thy people in the earth, the
\nangels of thy holy ones shall come and purge them of their Savior, and make them clean
\nin My sight.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

49. Then Eawahtah made the nations; united them into one mighty people, and called
\nthem the nations of Opahegoquim. And they planted the country over with corn-fields,
\nand dwelt in peace.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

END OF EAWAHTAH\u2019S HISTORY<\/span><\/p>\n

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

1. God said: Be wise, O man, in the words of thy God. My records come not up out of the
\nground, nor from the books of mortals.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. I open my heavenly libraries, and find my living sons and daughters who once trod the
\nearth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Their light I recast down again to mortals in a stream of fire, and lo, my words are
\nrewritten.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Search thou for the evidence of my footsteps on the earth; find the people who stand by
\nthe Creator, the All One, God of All! Who can shake their faith, or feed them with thy
\nstory of a Savior born of woman?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Hearken to the voice of the millions of Chine’ya and Vind’yu, and the remnants of the
\nAlgonquins! Their bibles are a power to this day. Their people are appalled at the work of<\/span>
\nthy bloody sword.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. They will not fall down and worship as thou decreest; they know that Jehovih is
\nmightier than thou.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Be thou considerate of all the races of men, and their doctrines and rites and
\nceremonies.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Behold, I raise up the nations of the earth in mine own way. According to the times and
\nconditions of mortals, so do I deal unto them from my heavenly kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Thou hast tried on all my people, to convert them, but hast failed utterly. Behold, I
\ncome now with a new book; and they will accept it from my hand.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Herein do I prophesy to thee, beforehand, that thou shalt witness in time to come, that
\nI, God of heaven and earth, have spoken.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Nor shalt thou say: Man of himself progresseth; and that such and such would come
\nof a natural order.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. I say unto thee, man progresseth not, save by me, through my angel hosts in heaven.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. In testimony of which I have left many peoples before thee, for hundreds of years.
\nThy natural order is laziness and uncleanness. Wherein thou art quickened in spirit,
\nbehold, it is the heavens upon thee that stirreth thee up.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Thou shalt not mistake the teaching of thy God; which was manifested the same in the
\nancient days as in this day: Which is, to worship thy Creator only; to bow not down to any
\nother God nor Lord; to love thy neighbor, and to do good unto others with all thy wisdom
\nand strength, having faith in the Almighty!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

END OF THE FIRST BOOK OF GOD<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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