{"id":2012,"date":"2021-01-03T21:31:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T21:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2021-01-03T21:31:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T21:31:41","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-monday-january-4th-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2021\/01\/03\/lectionary-readings-for-monday-january-4th-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Monday, January 4th, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weekday Sabbath<\/em><\/p>\n

Book of Jehovih Chapters 4 and 5<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 4<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Man perceived the general formation of the world, and he prayed that his eyes might be
\nopened for a sign in heaven; and Jehovih answered him, saying:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. The clouds in the air I bring into view suddenly; by different currents of wind make I
\nthus the unseen visible and tangible to man’s senses. In like manner do I cause etherean
\ncurrents to bring forth a’ji and ji’ay, and nebulae, prior to making corporeal worlds.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. In all the universe have I made the unseen to rule over the seen. Let the formation of
\nthe clouds stand in the view of man on earth, that he may bear witness to the manner of
\nthe unseen becoming seen.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Man perceived, and he prayed for a sign of duration, and Jehovih answered him,
\nsaying:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Behold the tree which hath sprung up out of the ground and fulfilled its time; it falleth
\nand rotteth, and returneth to the earth. But lo, the wind, which thou seest not, never
\nceaseth to blow. Even so is the comparative duration of all things. Think not, O man, that
\ncorporeal things are annihilated because they disappear; for as a drop of water evaporateth
\nand riseth in the air as unseen vapor, so do all corporeal things, even earth, and stones,
\nand gold, and silver, and lead, become as nothing in the firmament of heaven in course of
\ntime.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Things that man seeth, created I with a beginning and an end; but the unseen I made of
\nendless duration.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. The corporeal man made I belonging to the seen; but the spiritual man made I as one
\nwithin the unseen, and everlasting.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. As the corporeal man beholdeth corporeal things, so doth the spiritual man follow
\nupward the evaporated, corporeal entities of things. As corporeal things are tangible to<\/span>
\ncorporeans, so are es things tangible to the spirits of the dead.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. As I cause water to rise upward as vapor, and take a place in the air above, let it be a
\nsign and testimony of other places in atmospherea whereon dwell the spirits of the lower
\nheaven.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. As I made a limit to the ascent of the clouds, so made I a limit to the places of the
\ndifferent kinds of substances in atmospherea; the more subtle and potent to the extreme,
\nand the more dense and impotent nearer to the earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. According to the condition of these different plateaux in atmospherea, whether they
\nbe near the earth or high above, so shall the spirit of man take its place in the first heaven;
\naccording to his diet and desires and behavior so shall he dwell in spirit on the plateau to
\nwhich he hath adapted himself during his earth life.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. For I made the power of attraction manifest in all things before man’s eyes that he
\nmight not err, that like should attract like made I them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Man sought to know the progress of things. Jehovih answered him, saying:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Open thy eyes, O man ! There is a time of childhood, a time of genesis, a time of old
\nage, and a time of death to all men. Even so is it with all the corporeal worlds I have
\ncreated.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. First as vapor the vortex carrieth it forth, and as it condenseth, its friction engendereth
\nheat, and it is molten, becoming as a globe of fire in heaven. Then it taketh its place as a
\nnew born world, and I set it in the orbit prepared for it.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. In the next age I bring it into se’mu, for it is ripe for the bringing forth of living
\ncreatures; and I bestow the vegetable and animal kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Next it entereth ho’tu, for it is past the age of begetting, even as the living who are in
\ndotage. Next it entereth a’du, and nothing can generate upon it. Then cometh uz, and it is
\nspirited away into unseen realms. Thus create I, and thus dissipate planets, suns, moons
\nand stars.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. My examples are before all men. My witnesses are without number. I rise the tree
\nup out of the ground; I give it a time to bring forth fruit; and then barrenness, and then
\ndeath and dissolution. I prepare the new field with rich soil, bringing forth; and the old
\nfield that is exhausted, and man shall weigh the progress and destiny of a whole world.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. Let no man marvel because of the size of the mammoth and the ichthyosaurus,
\nfor there was a time for them as there is a time for the infusoria of this day.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. I have given thee a sign, O man, in the queen of the honey bee; because of the change
\nof the cell cometh she forth a queen, even from the same manner of germ as the other
\nbees. Be wise, therefore, and remember that the earth is not in the place of the firmament
\nas of old. Let this be a testimony to thee of the growth, the change and the travail of the
\nearth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. Nevertheless, O man, the seen and the unseen are but parts of My person; I am the
\nUnity of the whole.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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

1. Man perceived the magnitude and glory of the corporeal worlds. He said, How shall I
\nspeak of Thy great works, O Jehovih, and of Thy wisdom and power! Shall I open my
\nmouth before Thee! I look upon Thy countless stars, suns and moons, spread out over the<\/span>
\nheavens! The millions of years Thou hast rolled them on in the never-ending firmament!
\nProcessions in and out, and round about, of mighty worlds! By Thy breath going forth!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. O Thou, All Highest! How shall I hide my insignificance! I cannot create the smallest
\nthing alive! Nay, nor change the color of a hair on my head. What am I, that Thou has
\nseen me?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Tell me, O my Creator, whence came life? This unseen within me that is conscious of
\nbeing? Tell me how all the living came into life.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Jehovih heard the words of man and He answered him saying: Let a sign be given to
\nman that he may comprehend se’mu. Thereupon Jehovih caused the jelly fish and the
\ngreen scum of water to be permanently coming forth in all ages, that man might
\nunderstand the age of se’mu, when the earth and the shores by the water, and the waters
\nalso, were covered over with commingled atmosphere and corporeal substance. And this
\nsubstance was called se’mu, because by Jehovih’s presence quickened He it into life, and
\nthus made He all the living, both the vegetable and animal worlds. Not that se’mu is jellyfish or the green scum of water; for the earth in this day produceth not se’mu abundantly; nevertheless the jelly-fish and the green scum of water are signs of that which was in that
\nday of the earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Jehovih said: Because of My presence quickened I into life all that live, or ever have
\nlived.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Because I am male and female, even in my likeness, thus made I them. Because I am
\nthe power to quicken into life, so, in likeness of Me thus, made I them, and with power to
\nbring forth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. According to their respective places created I the living; not in pairs only, but in
\nhundreds of pairs and thousands, and in millions.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. According to their respective places and the light upon se’mu, so quickened I them in
\ntheir color, adapted to their dwelling places.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Each and every living thing created I new upon the earth, of a kind each to itself; and
\nnot one living thing created I out of another.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Let a sign be upon the earth, that man in his darkness may not believe that one animal
\nchangeth and becometh another.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Thereupon Jehovih gave permission for different animals to bring forth a new living
\nanimal, which should be unlike either its mother or father, but he caused the new product
\nto be barren.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Jehovih said: And this shall be testimony before all men that I created each and all the
\nliving, after their own kind only.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Such is My person and My spirit, being from everlasting to everlasting; and when I
\nbring a new world into the time of se’mu, lo and behold my presence quickeneth
\nthe substance into life; according to the locality and the surroundings, so do I bring
\nforth the different species; for they are flesh of My flesh and spirit of My spirit.
\nTo themselves give I themselves; nevertheless, they are all members of My Person.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. As a testimony to man, behold the earth was once a globe of liquid fire! Nor was there
\nany seed thereon. But in due season I rained down se’mu on the earth; and by virtue of my
\npresence quickened I into life all the living. Without seed created I the life that is in them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Plate 6. SE\u2019MUAN FIRMAMENT.
\nJehovih said : Behold, I caused all the living creatures to gestate in
\ndarkness. And this shall be testimony to the end of the world, that, when I
\ncreated life on the face of the earth, she traveled in My se\u2019muan firmament.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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