{"id":196,"date":"2019-05-16T06:18:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=196"},"modified":"2019-05-16T06:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T06:18:08","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-thursday-may-16th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2019\/05\/16\/lectionary-readings-for-thursday-may-16th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Thursday, May 16th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapters XXIV and XXV<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

OF THE JAFFETHAN ASSAULT.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Anuhasaj, alias the Lord God, had said to Te-in, the false, to whom he gave in
\ncharge Jaffeth and her heavenly places: In the self same time that Osiris and his hosts
\nfall upon the divisions of the earth, even in that day and hour shalt thou and thy hosts
\nfall upon Jaffeth (China), possessing the temples and altars, and places of oracles,
\nwhere they serve the Great Spirit under the name Ormazd, and thou shalt subdue them
\nto me under the name Joss, who is and ever shall be Ho-Joss of heaven and earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. So Te-in, the false, with his thousand million warriors sped forth, downward, to the
\nearth, wide spread his army, to cover the whole of Jaffeth, in hope to capture it suddenly.
\nAnd even as Osiris plunged into the temples and oracle-houses, and about the altars, in
\nthe dead of night, to drive away Jehovih’s guardian angels, so, like him, and even worse,
\nTe-in was baffled and repulsed, and saw the morning sun arise upon his shame in total
\nfailure. And then he, too, with his mighty legions, went stalking about, all day long on the
\nearth, waiting for the next night’s assault on sleeping mortals, and to receive new orders
\nfrom the Lord God, as to the next proceeding.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Then came the second night, and Te-in went in, with his army, furious because of the
\nlast night’s cowardly failure. And to the sleeping mortals, men, women and children, hied
\nthem with oaths and loud boastings, threatening Jehovih’s angels with the tortures of hell
\nif they did not instantly resign all unto Ho-Joss, the all highest ruler, dweller in Hored.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. But faithful stood the Jehovians; laid their hands on the sleeping mortals, and became
\nall powerful against the terrible odds, and held them in abeyance again, till the sun arose
\nand scattered Te-in’s hosts, ashamed and sulky, in most pitiful defeat. Of which news Tein now, most painfully, sent to his commanding God.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. To him, even as to Osiris, De’yus sent word to next attack the houses of the men of
\nlearning, the unbelievers; and the ignorant, the superstitious; to abandon, for the present,
\nthe arcs, and temples, and oracle-houses, and the Faithists, firmly sworn. De’yus said:
\nSend thou thy numerators and mathematicians; and measure and mark all mortals in
\nJaffeth, as to the vulnerable points, and map their localities; and when thou hast
\ncompleted this work, set apart another night for an attack upon them. And thy hosts shall
\nfall not upon the Faithists who are firm in the Great Spirit, Ormazd, but upon the weak
\nand disbelieving, the skeptical and much learned philosophers, who are weak in spirit,
\nand thou shalt not fail.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. So Te-in enumerated the Jaffethans, as commanded, marking them as to their
\nvulnerable points, whether in disbelief in spirit, or if given to lust, or to hasty passions, or
\nto telling lies, or to stealing, or to murder, or to hypocrisy, or to desire for leadership. And
\nbefore the time of battle, Te-in knew the grade of every mortal in Jaffeth. And he called
\nhis generals and captains before him in his heavenly place, Che-su-gow, over the Chesain
\nMountains, twenty miles high, showing them the lists and maps.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Take these, he said, and distribute them before my mighty armies, and ere tomorrow
\nnight they shall learn every mortal’s place and quality; and in the night my legions
\nshall rush upon the places, laying hands on the sleeping mortals, thus gaining power;
\nand they shall hurl missiles, with terrible noises, through the houses of the sleepers,
\nand so arouse them to awake and behold the war of heaven carried to their homes.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>8. The generals and captains took the lists and maps, and had millions of copies made of
\nthem, and then sent them into all the regions of De’yus’militants; and besides sent
\nproclaimers, millions and millions, with terrible oaths against the Great Spirit, but
\nwho extolled the magnificence of De’yus to the utmost; appealing to their love
\nof independence, and to their power to cast off all other rulers forever, save Ho-Joss.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. And now, when the night of battle came, the infuriated angel warriors of Te-in
\nmarched in lines, millions strong, toward the sleeping mortals. Spread abroad their great
\narmies, covering the land of Jaffeth from east to west and from north to south. Over
\nGlang’e’loe, the C<\/span>ITY OF THE <\/span>S<\/span>UN<\/span>, were sent thirty millions of Te-in’s warring angels, sworn
\nto objurgate the people of great learning, alive or dead, and scatter the angels of Jehovih,
\nor bind them and cast them into hell. Over the city of Pen Goo were Te-in’s hosts, twenty
\nmillions; and over the cities of Tsee, and Wung, and Ha-tzo, and Ne King, and Zoo Wun,
\neach twenty millions of Te-in’s angels of war.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Besides these there were millions and millions stationed over the great valley of Wan,
\nand in the mountains of So-Jon. In the plains of Wow Gan were stationed seventy
\nmillions. Five millions were allotted to each of the following cities, to wit: Sum Conc,
\nAh-gee, Ah-sin, Chang-ha, Gee Oooh-young, Gwan Gouk, Na’tji, Yuk Hoh, Ah Tosh, Ah
\nKoan, Chaung, Shon, Nufow, Zow, Lin, Gee Bak, Ow-wa, Tdong, King-do, Ghi Sam,
\nSeung, Chog, Doth, Jawh, Bing-Tah, Gha, Haih, Hung, Wing-tze, Ni Am, Ah Sam and
\nZow-lin.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. In the mountains of Witch How Loo were stationed eighty millions, laying for the
\nListian breed of men. On the borders of the sea, for sea-faring men, and for their wives
\nand children, were one hundred and ninety millions of Te-in’s angel soldiers, ready for the
\nassault. Besides these there were tens of thousands of smaller armies, stationed in the
\nsmall cities and country places, waiting for the signal.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Now, in this age, Jaffeth had attained to great wisdom in many things, especially save
\nin war, in which her people were as babes. More than half her people were Faithists,
\nfollowers of Po, worshippers of the Great Spirit. And they practiced peace and dwelt in
\ncommunities. Even many of the cities were in families of tens, and hundreds, and
\nthousands, but nowhere more than two thousand. And the city families were after this
\nmanner, that is to say: The manufacturers of cloth of wool, one family; of cloth of linen,
\nanother family; of cloth of silk, another family; of leather, another family; of paper,
\nanother family; of transportation, another family; and so on, till all departments were full;
\nand of these combinations there were cities of fifty thousand, and a hundred thousand,
\nand two hundred thousand inhabitants. And in the country places there were small cities,
\nwhose people tilled the soil and gathered the fruits of the earth, and they exchanged goods
\nwith the manufacturers who dwelt in large cities.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. The government was by priests, one for each communion family, and the priests, who
\nwere called Wa-shon, were the receivers and distributors of goods, and they
\nministered in the temples and at the altars of worship in the name of the Great Spirit,
\nOrmazd, sometimes called Po-e-tein, and sometimes E’O’lin, and by other names also.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Besides the schools and colleges there were <\/span>HOUSES OF PHILOSOPHY, <\/span>and <\/span>HOUSES OF
\nPROPHESY, <\/span>and <\/span>HOUSES OF ASTRONOMY, <\/span>thousands and thousands.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. The Jaffethans were large, being I’huans, with one degree more of the brown people’s
\nblood in them than the Parsi’e’ans. Nor in all the world was there, at that time, so strong a<\/span>
\npeople, and clean and jovial, high aspiring, with great gentleness. And because the land
\nwas tilled and made to bloom on every side, the angels named it the F<\/span>LOWERY <\/span>K<\/span>INGDOM<\/span>;
\nand because the people reveled in song, and poetry, and oratory, they were called, L<\/span>AMBS
\nOF THE <\/span>G<\/span>REAT <\/span>S<\/span>PIRIT IN THE FLUSH OF SPRING TIME.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. And these things were well known to De’yus, and to Te-in, the false, and to hundreds
\nof millions of the assaulting angels, sworn to subdue them to Ho-Joss or to everlasting
\ndestruction.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. But because of the power of Jehovih with the most faithful of the Faithists, the
\narcs and temples of worship had stood unharmed by the satanic raid. Equally so the Teins failed to overpower the Great Spirit’s guardian angels. So now, after due preparation,
\nthe time came for another contest, this time upon the least Jehovih-like of mortals.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. On the other hand, the true God, Son of Jehovih, sent word from his throne in
\nCraoshivi to the guardian angels dwelling with these mortals, so unmindful of the Father’s
\ncare. He said: Come defeat, or disaster, or terrible darkness, overpowering your utmost
\nstrength, still struggle ye, in the name of Jehovih. The true Faithist knoweth nothing
\nimpracticable, but doeth his utmost for his highest light, though failure stare him in the
\nface.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. For once distrust of weakness entereth the human soul, the man slideth backward
\ndown the hill of faith; whilst he who will not consider results, save to serve Jehovih right
\non, fail or not, riseth, even though his project fail.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. With this and no other word from Jehovih, the Faithists stood about their weak and
\nhelpless wards on the low earth, waiting for the thousand million Te-ins. But not in
\nany lengthened suspense, for when the sun stood with the widest part of the earth
\nbetween, the midnight hour, the militants came rushing on, with oaths most hideous,
\nand by their dense flood of numbers reached the sleeping mortals and laid hands on them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. Then, with joy run to madness because of triumph, sent hurling round about
\nappurtenances in the dwellings. And, in many places, with audible speech thus held forth
\nin the dark to the affrighted mortals:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. From Sanc-tu I come, to lie in the dust every mortal born that will not bow down in
\nreverence to Ho-Joss, ruler of worlds. Give ear, O man; the anger of heaven’s Creator is
\nlet loose upon a disobedient race!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. And then, to give semblance of truth to the words, the angel intruders let fly such
\nknocks and poundings that they moved many a house on its foundation, and roused the
\nmortals, panic-stricken, to find the cause, or to hasten them quickly to repentance and
\nprayers.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. But not all was their victory; for the Jehovians firmly held the power in hundreds of
\nthousands of places. And yet the Te-ins had a wonderful victory.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

25. Te-in quickly sent word to De’yus, exulting, and exaggerating the victories won.
\nAnd in turn, De’yus congratulated him and his army, his thousand millions,
\nwho, now anchored on the earth, and with mortals, frolicked about in all regions.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

26. And in Jaffeth, in course of time, the same questions arose as in Arabin’ya; questions
\nfrom mortals to the spirits; as to the destination of the soul of man; as to the origin of
\nthings; as to the heavenly places? And Te-in in turn sent word on up to De’yus, in Hored,
\nas to what answer should be given. It was thus, that he, too, was summoned to Sanc-tu,
\nin Hored, to meet with Osiris, and Baal, and Ashtaroth, and Sudga, subduer of Vind<\/span><\/p>\n

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

OF THE VIND\u2019YUAN ASSAULT.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Sudga, the false, sent by De’yus to overturn the Great Spirit’s dominion in Vind’yu, and
\nto establish the highest heavenly place, Urvatooz, was wiser than Osiris or Te-in in his
\nwicked work. For he permitted not his army, his thousand millions, to rush on for the
\nplaces of worship and for the oracle-houses. But most deliberately halted his forces in
\nHaroyu, the lowest heavenly place over the mountains of Vivrat, in Vind’yu, three miles
\nhigh and broad as the earth, and a commanding situation.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Whence, in a sure way, he sent his measurers on ahead down to the earth, to measure
\nmortals, as to their weakness and strength in faith in Jehovih (Ormazd), and other rulers,
\nheavenly; to map them and mark them, and to number them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Great was the peace and beauty and glory of Vind’yu in that day. Her rivers and canals
\ncoursed the country over, and her industrious sons and daughters, two hundred millions,
\nwere, in the eyes of the angels, the pride and glory of the earth. Hundreds of thousands of
\nher people were prophets and seers. And so abundant was spiritual light amongst the
\npeople, that even those who had learned but one language could understand and speak
\nother languages with people from remote parts; words and sentences they had never
\nheard; even when first meeting strangers. Like the inhabitants of Jaffeth, as to
\ngovernment and industry, mostly by the exchange of goods, and not by buying and
\nselling, lived the Vind’yuans. This was their weakest point, as to an assault.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Sudga said to his generals and captains: Only by confounding the languages of these
\npeople can they be broken up and subdued. Behold, they are becoming as Gods; knowing
\nand understanding in advance of the words spoken. What, then, is their greatest liable
\nshortness, save we confound them suddenly in the meaning of words? Fall ye upon them,
\nand possess them, and obsess them, all who are easily captured. Get ye a foothold here
\nand there in the first place; and in their commerce cripple them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Sudga said: It is a strong city that maketh all kinds of goods; it is a weak place indeed
\nthat dependeth on another, which is far off. Such people are easily tripped up. Behold, I
\nwill teach these people that I am the militant before whom every knee shall bow; or, in
\nfailing to win them thus, I will set city against city, and country place against country
\nplace; all against one another, for which their superabundant languages will furnish
\nexcellent material.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Sudga opened the door at night for his hosts to fall on the weakest of mortals, as to
\nfaith in Ormazd, Who had become as a stale story to hundreds of thousands of men and
\nwomen. In Vind’yu had woman risen in knowledge, higher than the highest of women in
\nother parts of the world. In the <\/span>HOUSES OF PHILOSOPHY <\/span>and <\/span>HOUSES OF SCIENCE <\/span>women were
\nforemost, as to men, and skeptical as to the Ormazdian power.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. On rushed Sudga’s legions; and even as Osiris and Te-in won in the third assault,
\nso now Sudga in the first. And, he too, sent word to De’yus, and exaggerated beyond
\nall bounds of truth, as to his victories. Nevertheless, his hosts were sufficiently
\nanchored on the earth to claim an everlasting victory for De’yus and to establish his name.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. And here, also, after a few years, the questions came from mortals, asking thus:
\nBehold, ye cut off the heavens of the ancients, the Nirvanian regions beyond Chinvat. Ye<\/span>
\nteach us that De’yus is the A<\/span>LL <\/span>H<\/span>IGH <\/span>R<\/span>ULER<\/span>. What, then, is the all highest for man? How
\ncame the worlds? Whence came man? How was the creation created?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. To answer which Sudga sent to De’yus for instructions. And De’yus sent to Sudga, even
\nas to the other Gods, an invitation to meet in Hored, to hear the words of the Lord God, to
\nlearn his commands.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Thus invited, thus went the five great warrior Gods before De’yus, taking with them
\neach his ten thousand attendants, besides thousands of trumpeters. De’yus had a good
\nfeast prepared for them; he had sent receivers forth to meet them and conduct them to
\nSanc-tu in great splendor.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapters XXIV and XXV Chapter XXIV OF THE JAFFETHAN ASSAULT. 1. Anuhasaj, alias the Lord God, had said to Te-in, the false, to whom he gave in charge Jaffeth and her heavenly places: In the self same time that Osiris and his hosts fall upon the divisions of the earth, … [Read more…]<\/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-196","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\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}