{"id":212,"date":"2019-05-22T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=212"},"modified":"2019-05-22T20:00:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T20:00:52","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-thursday-may-23rd-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2019\/05\/22\/lectionary-readings-for-thursday-may-23rd-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Thursday, May 23rd, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapters XXXVIII and XXXIX<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

1. After the meeting between De’yus and Osiris and Sudga, when De’yus was left alone,
\nhe thus reasoned: Since Sudga and Osiris have thus left me uncivilly amidst a most
\ndisgusting quarrel, it must follow that on their arrival home they will secede, taking their
\nkingdoms with them. Well, it will be well; I will the more warmly bind my fellowship
\nto Te-in, and we twain shall overthrow Sudga and Osiris, and take all their spoils.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. While De’yus thus soliloquized, messengers came from Che-su-gow, Te-in’s heavenly
\nplace, bringing this word: Greeting to thee: our Lord God: Te-in hath seceded, and taken
\nboth his heavenly and his corporeal dominions unto himself. With an army of two
\nhundred million angel warriors he is walling his heavenly kingdom around on every side;
\nnone can pass or repass without his permission.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Before De’yus recovered from his surprise, behold, other messengers came from
\nSudga’s heavenly place, saying: Greeting to thee, our Lord God: Sudga hath seceded,
\ntaking with him his heavenly kingdom and his earth dominions, Vind’yu! With an army of
\ntwo hundred million angel warriors he is walling his heavenly kingdom around on every
\nside; none can pass or repass without his permission!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. De’yus said: So alike and like! Then these rascal Gods had this planned beforehand!
\nPresently other messengers arrived, saying: Greeting to thee, our one-time Lord God of
\nheaven and earth! Osiris and Baal and Ashtaroth have seceded, taking their
\nheavenly kingdoms and their mortal dominions with them. I, Osiris, have spoken.
\nThy higher grades I will draw unto myself; my lower grades I will banish unto thee!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. De’yus said: Well, it is well. I will now make stronger the other heavenly divisions unto
\nme; and the earth divisions, too long neglected by me; Uropa, Guatama, North and South,
\nand their heavenly places.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. But whilst he thus soliloquized, behold, messengers arrived from these places, also
\nannouncing their secession in like manner. Then De’yus was silent for a long while,
\nconsidering. But satan came to him, saying:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Darkness cometh unto all the great, for by this the light is made to shine brighter. Now,
\nsince all access to the corporeal earth is cut off, and since all thy supplies for food and
\nraiment must come up from the earth, it followeth that thou shalt lower Hored, thy
\nheavenly place, nearer to the face of the earth. The which accomplished, thou shalt send
\nten thousand millions of thy warrior angels against these rebellious Gods and despoil<\/span>
\nthem of their dominions, and cast them into hell, and repossess thou the whole earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. De’yus said: It is true! My way is clear. These rascally Gods know not how foolishly
\nthey have exposed themselves. Hored is wide enough to cover them up. And by fire will I
\nchase the drujas upon them, ten thousand million strong; flood them with such foulness
\nthat their kingdoms will go to pieces under them and suffocate them in the horrid stench.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. De’yus then called together his vice-Gods, and his Holy Council, and his highest-raised
\nofficers; and he related to them what had occurred, and his plans ahead. But that he might
\nthe better deliberate and gain their acquiescence, he granted a day of recreation to meet on
\nthe following day at the trumpet call.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. But lo and behold, on the day of recreation, no less than seven hundred millions of his
\nhighest grades left him and Hored, and descended to the heavenly kingdoms of his former
\nGods, some to one and some to another, whilst a few of them descended to the earth
\nto found small kingdoms of their own. Danger was already staring Anuhasaj in the face.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Accordingly, he at once chose his officers, and set them to work, but owing to their
\nlack of knowledge in such matters, only small sections were bound and lowered at one
\ntime, at which rate a hundred years would be required to accomplish the work. Hereat,
\nDe’yus’heart began to fail him. The prophecies of the higher Gods, that he and his
\nkingdoms would be ultimately broken up and cast into hell, began to show signs of
\nrealization fearful to contemplate.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Anuhasaj had no time for war, but must now use every stratagem in his power to
\nprevent dismemberment in his own kingdom. In these straits a good fortune came to him
\nin a ji’ay’an harvest falling in all the atmospherean heavens, compressing and falling, so
\nthat his lowest grades were provided with sustenance from above, and they were pacified.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Jehovih had spoken to Cpenta-armij, in her far-off etherean worlds, saying: Behold,
\nthe earth, she entereth now the ji’ay’an fields of Tu’e’vraga, in My high roads, Loo-sutsk.
\nA little while will I feed the self-Gods of the lower heavens, and lead them on to know
\nMy power.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

1. Jehovih spake to God, His Son, in Craoshivi, saying: Prepare thou, for the fall of ji’ay
\nin atmospherea. The earth and her heavens enter Loo-sutsk, seventy years in the rates of
\nseven hundred; forty years in five hundred; twenty years in a’ji! Be thou advised; for
\nCraoshivi shall fall to thirty, and Hored be buried in the earth. Call thou My Son, Ahura,
\nand reveal My words!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. So God, in Craoshivi, advised his High Council, and also sent messengers in haste of
\nVara-pishanaha, to Ahura, and acquainted him. After this God propounded in Council:
\nAnuhasaj, what can Craoshivi do for him? Thereupon the members spake at great length,
\nmore than a thousand of them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. So God decreed: A commission to wait on Anuhasaj and inform him of his danger,
\nand offer to succor and save him. This that followeth is the message thus sent, to wit:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. To thee, O Anuhasaj, greeting in Jehovih’s name, and by our love assured. Thou art
\nadjudged to be in perilous condition. Behold, one hundred and thirty years’pressure will
\nfall on the heavens of the earth; Craoshivi will go down to the depths of hada. Reach up
\nthy hands, and I will come and save thee and thy kingdom. Wilt thou withdraw thine<\/span>
\narmies and permit the resurrection of thy lowest grades?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Anuhasaj answered this in these words: Who art thou that thus assaileth my peaceful
\nkingdom? Thou pretended son of the Void Nothingness? Call thou on me as becometh
\none with thy small kingdom, and if thou need help for thyself, or for thy paupers, I will
\ngive unto thee!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Thereupon God returned this answer, to wit: Be thou patient with me, O brother: If it
\nbe that I am proved to be in darkness, and thou in the light, I will make thee ample
\namends. If on the other hand I be in the light and thou in darkness, I will say naught that
\nwould wound thee. If thou wilt apply thyself diligently to solve the place of the earth
\nand her heavens thou wilt find in truth the coming pressure whereof I told thee. Think
\nnot that my words are spoken at random, but try them by prophecy and by mathematics.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. As to the coming danger, it is an easy matter to estimate. A thousand years ago, when
\nthou first established thyself and thy heaven, Hored possessed an average grade above
\nfifty, all told. And there were four thousand millions of them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. In two hundred years thou hadst six thousand millions, and the grade was raised to
\nsixty-five. In the next two hundred years the number was nearly doubled, but the grade
\nhad fallen to forty. And in two hundred years later the inhabitants had nearly doubled
\nagain, but the grade had fallen to twenty-eight. In the next two hundred years, the increase
\nin numbers was at the same rate as the decrease in the grade.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Now behold, thy twenty-eight thousand millions, more than half of whom are in Hored,
\nare below grade ten. And when thou didst first possess Hored, a ten grade could not
\nsurvive thereon. Think not that some accidental thing will raise so great a weight.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Look into this matter, as to what thou hast done! Thou hast persuaded thy hosts not to
\nlook up to Jehovih and His kingdoms, and lo, they incline downward to the earth. Yea,
\nthey have already filled the earth with war and destruction.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Thou shalt not hope to throw these things on thy Gods, for they will turn against thee
\nand accuse thee. At present they are content to found kingdoms of their own. But they
\nwill also come to an end. Because they have seceded from thee, let it be evidence that all
\nthe highest grades will follow in the same way.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. As for Craoshivi, her lowest grades are above fifty, and therefore self-sustaining; her
\nhighest grades are ninety-nine and her average eighty-eight. And hundreds of millions of
\nthese are such as my Lords have rescued from thy bondage; others, such Faithists on the
\nearth as thy false Gods put to death for refusing to bow to thee. And have they not proved
\nit is better to suffer death than to renounce faith in Jehovih? Otherwise they had now been
\nwithin the company of thy slaves, toiling in darkness.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Yea, my kingdom is made up of those that were despised and abused; and of those
\nthat thy Gods slew in war, chaotic and mad. For my asaphs followed thy cruel wars and
\ngathered in the spirits of the slain, whom thou wouldst not have. Thou callest them poor
\nstill. Why, so they are; they are washed white as snow; and because they have been taught
\nto keep on casting aside all accumulation, save knowledge and goodness of heart, in
\nwhich they are rich indeed.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. They would come to thee now in pity to take thy people by the hand and deliver them
\naway from thee and darkness. And if thy slaves be not delivered away from thee, they will
\nsurely, soon or late, turn upon thee and cast thee into hell. I pray thee, therefore, assume
\nthou conversion to Jehovih, and cast thy kingdom upon Him whilst thou mayst. For I<\/span>
\nhave the power and the means to deliver thee and thy slaves. Yea, I will give thee a new
\nname, and hide thee away, that they cannot find thee. And thou shalt be one with my in
\nmy holy place.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. To this Anuhasaj made no reply, and so the matter remained<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapters XXXVIII and XXXIX Chapter XXXVIII 1. After the meeting between De’yus and Osiris and Sudga, when De’yus was left alone, he thus reasoned: Since Sudga and Osiris have thus left me uncivilly amidst a most disgusting quarrel, it must follow that on their arrival home they will secede, taking … [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-212","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\/212","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=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}