{"id":215,"date":"2019-05-23T20:52:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=215"},"modified":"2019-05-23T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:52:58","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-friday-may-24th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2019\/05\/23\/lectionary-readings-for-friday-may-24th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Friday, May 24th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book of Wars Against Jehovih Chapters XL and XLI<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

1. In Vara-pishanaha Ahura had now toiled nearly two thousand years with his people,
\nwho for a great part had been drujas, but were now high in the grades. Of them, more than
\ntwo thousand millions had been raised into light; had become Brides and Bridegrooms to
\nJehovih, and had been delivered into the etherean worlds.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. But Ahura suffered not his dominions to be depleted, but did after the manner of God
\nin Craoshivi, and sent down to hada and to the earth and gathered in, both the fallen
\nangels of De’yus and his false Gods, and also the chaotic and foul-smelling spirits, wild
\nand frenzied, and vengeful; and Ahura had them brought to Vara-pishanaha and there
\ntreated, and nursed and restored and put to school and to factories, and taught and
\ndeveloped; hundreds of millions of them becoming bright, wise and of great love and
\npower.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. God sent to Ahura, saying: Greeting to thee in the name of Jehovih. Because of the
\ncoming darkness which will soon press upon atmospherea from every quarter, and the
\ntrials that will be put upon Gods and angels, let us unite our heavenly kingdoms! Let us
\nbring our plateaux together, and thy kingdom shall be my kingdom, and mine shall be
\nthine; and one of us shall be manager in heaven, and the other shall descend to hada and
\nto the earth, when the great darkness is on.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. To this Ahura replied: Greeting to thee, God of the heavens of the earth, and with love
\nand most high reverence. There is wisdom in thy design. I will do with thee whatsoever
\nthou demandest, to fulfill this great work.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. So God, of Craoshivi, and Ahura, brought their forces to bear on their respective
\nplateaux, to unite them. And this was the proceeding, for their places were two thousand
\nmiles apart, to the east and south-west; and the one, Vara-pishanaha, seven thousand
\nmiles below Craoshivi:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. For the coming pressure would drive them both down near the earth’s surface; to steer
\nVara-pishanaha to the eastward, would bring one over the other; and to lower the grade of
\nCraoshivi would bring the twain in contact. And the inhabitants of both dominions
\nwere so high in power and wisdom that their presence was higher than the place
\nthey inhabited. So that the element of the plateaux was all that was required to be moved.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. To find the power required, and to arrange the ranks for the proceeding, God appointed
\nofficers and set them to work, and the officers reported back that the work could be
\ncompleted in twelve years. And Ahura united with God; and there were engaged in this
\nlabor three thousand million angels. And they made a bridge betwixt the two plateaux,
\nand it so connected them that millions of angels could pass and repass objectively whilst
\nthe work was going on.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Yet God’s labors and Ahura’s labors in receiving the spirits of the earth, of the
\nFaithists, and of others from the regions of hada, ceased not, lagged not. Their
\nthousands of otevans sailed the heavens along in every way, gathering in the unfortunate.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>9. And now that the self-Gods in hada had quarreled amongst themselves and separated,
\nDe’yus’blockade was broken of its own accord. His mighty standing army against
\nJehovih’s believers had melted away; and the otevans sped hither and yonder unmolested.
\nAnd they gathered in many a thousand; yea, tens of thousands, of De’yus’highest raised
\nangels. The lowest would not come; they had been taught to hate with vengeance Jehovih
\nand His worshippers; to look upon all ills as from Jehovih; to look upon all good delights
\nand blessings as the gifts of De’yus, the Lord their God.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Suffice it to say, in twelve years’time the great heavens, Craoshivi and Varapishanaha, were united and become as one place. And there was a time of rejoicing and
\ndelight; great recreation and communion; great rites and ceremonies, and worshipping
\nand rejoicing before Jehovih.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Already was the pressure of ji’ay upon the heavens and the earth. Hored was fast
\nfalling toward the earth; De’yus’highest raised had already gone; his kingdom was
\nbecoming a kingdom of fools and idlers, a most dangerous class when once want and
\nstarvation come upon them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. De’yus, still stubborn, and, withal, hoping for a change from some cause he saw not,
\nhad now no longer time to quarrel with his truant Gods, but from day to day, hour to hour,
\nwas kept at the full strain to avert the threatened doom.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Meanwhile, the false Gods, his own one-time pupils, were now heaping into his
\ndistracted kingdom millions and millions of drujas, who had been taught on the earth that
\nall that was required of them was to call on the Savior, Anubi, and the Lord God, and that
\nwhen they died they would go straight to glory to dwell on the holy hill of the Lord God.
\nAnd these poor creatures the self-Gods now applauded, helping them on, saying: Yea, go
\non; your Savior, Anubi, will open the gate and pass you in. Henceforth, forever, ye shall
\ndo nothing but bow to De’yus.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. And these spirits of darkness, like idiots, were bowing all the time, day and night,
\ndoing nothing but bowing, and saying: Blessed Anubi! He can save me! Glory to the
\nLord our God! Then they would begin again: Blessed Anubi! My Savior! Glory be to
\nDe’yus! For this was all they knew; neither would they hear nor see else; they were
\nas wild people; with outbursting eyes, looking for Anubi; looking for De’yus; but
\nbowing incessantly in all directions; millions of them, tens of millions; delirious angels!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Anubi gave up his place in consequence, and in fear of them; and his heavenly city
\nwas like a house without a keeper, where throngs go in and out, around about, forever
\nshouting: O my blessed Savior, Anubi! Glory be to the Lord God.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. But Anubi was with the false Lord God, striving to help him find some means of
\nescape or safety.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

1. Darker and darker, the hadan fields palled before the touch of Jehovih’s hand, to try the
\nself-assumed Lord God and his heavenly works. As if an epoch new and terrible had
\ncome to one so audacious, who foremost in heaven and earth had sought to banish the
\nworship and the name of the Great Spirit from mortals, and give them instead a heavenly
\nruler in the image of man.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. For before this, all nations knew the office of Gods and Lords, and reverenced them as
\nJehovih’s high officers, raised up spirits of the dead, wise and powerful. But now, in five<\/span>
\ngreat divisions of the earth, satan’s hadan chief had bound his name in mortals, with
\nthreatened penalties, and even death, for mentioning Jehovih’s name. And, to put them
\nto the test, made oaths on burning flesh, that whoso would not eat thereof should die.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. For this was the criterion before the courts that they that refused fish and flesh food, or
\nwould not pollute the body by noxious drinks and smoke, intoxicating to the sense, were
\npossessed of Jehovihian worship, and so deserved torture and death.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. So the names of Lord and God, and Lord God, and De’yus, had now become for a
\nthousand years fixed in mortals’minds as the Creator, a large man sitting on a throne in
\nHored, his heavenly seat, watched and guarded by his son, Anubi, keeper of the scales,
\nand of the gate to heaven. To make a plausible story of which, the angels, through oracles,
\nand magicians, and priests, and prophets, proclaimed that: In the beginning God created
\nthe heavens and the earth, and all things therein and thereon. And he was tired, and
\nrested; and, as if creation was a completed work, left certain laws to run the wonderful
\nmachine whilst he sat afar off, looking on; smiling at the pranks of mortals, and their
\nfailure to understand him, with a devil and a horrid fire to torture their souls, if they sang
\nnot in praise of this compounded, false Lord God.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Thus turned he, their false God, the voice of mortals from Him Who is Ever Present,
\nWhose speech hath every soul heard, Whose Presence moveth all things in heaven and
\nearth! The false God turned them to sing and pray to himself, so he should clutch and
\nbind their souls in endless slavery; untaught, half fed; as drudges, to bring into his capital,
\nprovender and building stones to glorify him forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Over Jaffeth, far and wide, this traitor to Jehovih had sealed in stone, and papyrus, and
\nwood, and sacred cloth, his name, Ho-Joss, to suit the Panic voice, as whilst in Vind’yu he
\nmade them engrave it Dyaus, to fit the Vedic tongue; and thence in Fonece to suit the
\nhigher-spirited race, Adonia-Egad, and go over to Heleste, and, in less distince and
\nbastard Greece, whisper Zeus, saying: These words are watch-words to gain Anubi’s ear,
\nand turn the scales for endless paradise. Go ye, slaves, engrave my names; and, in mortal
\nlibraries, register my great exploit, of how I created the world!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. And make me spotless pure, letting sin into the races of men by Osiris’cunning tale of
\nEve’s weakness by fault of the earth. For I am not come like Jehovih’s captains, spirits
\nsent to rule men for a season, but a very God of blood and bones, who once, in terrible
\nanger, flooded the earth to drown my disobedient sons and daughters. Make ye them to
\ntremble and draw long breath when my name is spoken, or, by mine own soul, I will hurl
\nheaven and earth into endless chaos!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Pressing downward ji’ay came, slowly and surely, the very motion spake as a million
\ntongues, serious, awful. For many, on every side, of the hosts of Anuhasaj were deserting
\nhim. As one in a small way may see on a sinking ship, how the expert swimmers, with
\nstrong arms, leap into the water boldly and swim for the far-off shore, whilst the helpless,
\nin frantic rage, cluster fast upon the distracted officers, blockading them from doing good.
\nSo began the tumult in the fast descending plateau, Hored, which was increased a
\nhundred-fold by the flood of drujas cast upon De’yus’kingdom by his own traitorous false
\nGods.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. De’yus’generals and captains first tried music to hold the forty thousand millions to
\npeace and order; but the es’enaurs themselves took fright, and by the million fled, flying
\ndown to the earth to Osiris’, or Te-in’s, or Sudga’s kingdoms, and over-flooding mortals<\/span>
\nwith ghostly revelries. Next, by parades, and rites, and great processions, did De’yus’
\nofficers seek to divert the panic-stricken millions.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Thus for years this maddened God with wonderful strength of will almost held his
\nown, inventing tens of thousands of stratagems. But at last, in the downward course,
\nHored touched upon the corporeal earth; and suddenly, as if startled by the shock, the
\nfrantic millions screamed, and then, alas, all order died.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. The doors of hell were opened! Anuhasaj’s throne and capital, with all their splendor,
\nthe maddened mob broke loose to pillage or to destroy. And then rushed in the faultfinders, shouting: Thou lying God, but like a man, who art thou? And thou, Anubi!
\nDeceiving judge! A thousand horrid deaths to thee!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. But the unlearned drujas knew not who was rank or officer, God or judge, but seized
\nthe pale and trembling De’yus and Anubi, and more than a million officers, overpowered
\nthem, by ten millions to one, pressed on by the foul-smelling crowd. And now, with
\nblows and kicks and cuffs, on every side began the awful fray. Till stretched as wide as
\nthe earth, the countless millions were plunged into hell. Hereupon, to right and left, was
\nnow an unceasing combat, and all the hosts of the Lord God were sworn for vengeance
\nagainst any one they came against.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Then came the torturers, casting into the hells most offensive smells and suffocating
\ngases, crammed in the nose and mouth of their victims. No more were the Lord God and
\nAnubi seen, but swallowed up in measureless darkness, where every soul sought nothing
\ngood, but labored hard to give unto others excruciating tortures for vengeance sake<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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