{"id":256,"date":"2019-06-09T14:31:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T14:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=256"},"modified":"2019-06-09T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T14:31:43","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-sunday-july-9th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2019\/06\/09\/lectionary-readings-for-sunday-july-9th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Sunday, July 9th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holy Memorial Day<\/em><\/p>\n

Book of Lika Chapters 17 and 18<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 17<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Wherein this history hath overlapped the running story, hear ye how it was with
\nAhura and his kingdom, Vara-pishanaha, which Lika visited prior to the deliverance of
\nthe hells of hada. For, to accomplish the resurrection of Vara-pishanaha, Lika had
\npreviously sent swift messengers to Ye’a-Goo, Goddess of Ha’mistos, in etherea, to bring
\nan avalanza capable of six thousand million Brides and Bridegrooms for the mid-harvest.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Accordingly, at the same time Lika and his Rapon hosts were visiting Ahura, the
\nGoddess, Ye’a-Goo, came down in her avalanza, fully equipped. Her avalanza was eggshaped and veiled without, and was seven miles high and five miles wide, every way,
\nhabitable throughout. On the outer surface, but under the veil, were twelve thousand
\nporches with banisters. The propelling vortices were within the center, and the workmen
\nwere in the summit. On the lowest porch were five hundred thousand es’enaurs, and on
\nthe highest porch one thousand trumpeters.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Ye’a-Goo’s compartment, and the place of the Holy Council, were in the midst; and her
\nthrone faced to the north, like the earth’s vortex.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Ahura said to Lika, Son of Jehovih: My Brides and Bridegrooms I give to thee; honor
\nthou this dissolving kingdom by performing the marriage ceremony. Lika said: Thy will
\nand Jehovih’s be done. Thus was it arranged, and the twain, together with the Rapon
\nhosts, ascended the throne together and sat thereon.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Ahura had previously provided his hosts, in all four and a half thousand million Brides
\nand Bridegrooms, and arrayed them in white, so that they anxiously awaited the coming
\nof Ye’a-Goo, and were on the look-out to see her magnificent ship descending. A place of
\nanchorage had also been previously made, together with accommodation for the
\nspectators, of whom there were fifteen hundred millions, being adopted wanderers,
\nrescued from the various hells during the past hundred years.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. The Brides and Bride-grooms were arranged in semi-circles facing the throne, leaving a
\nplace for the avalanza, but above them, so that when Ye’a-Goo descended from her ship’s
\nbottom she would be in the midst.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Whilst the ship’s workmen were anchoring, Ye’a-Goo and her Holy Council descended
\nto the platform, and saluted the Gods and Goddesses on the throne in the sign, T<\/span>HE <\/span>G<\/span>LORY
\nOF <\/span>T<\/span>HE <\/span>F<\/span>ATHER<\/span>, and Lika and the others answered under the sign, T<\/span>HE <\/span>A<\/span>BANDONMENT OF
\n<\/span>S<\/span>ELF<\/span>!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Ye’a-Goo said: In Jehovih’s name am I come to answer the call of His Son, to deliver
\nthe emancipated Sons and Daughters.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Lika said: Behold, O Daughter of Jehovih, the Brides and Bridegrooms are before thee.
\nTo thee I give them in Jehovih’s name!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Ye’a-Goo said: My beloved, know ye the resurrection of the most high heavens?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Response: Reveal, O Goddess; our faith is strong.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Thereupon Ye’a-Goo instructed them, and then followed the usual ceremonies, but<\/span>
\nconcluding with the seventh degree of emuth, in Jehovih’s voice, to wit: To be My Brides
\nand Bridegrooms forever?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Response: To be Thy Brides and Bridegrooms forever, O Jehovih! To labor for thee,
\nand to be mouth-pieces for Thy commandments, and to be Thy expression forever! And
\nto be in concert with Thy most high Gods for the resurrection of mortals and angels.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Whom I receive as Mine forever! To be one with Me in My kingdoms; for which
\nglory I accept you as My Sons and Daughters, Brides and Bridegrooms forever!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Response: And be Thy Sons and Daughters! To be one with Thee forever, Thou Most
\nHigh, Jehovih!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Ye’a-Goo said: Behold the crowns the Father bestoweth upon His loves, to be
\ntheirs forever. (Hereat the Rapon Chiefs with Lika, gathered of the curtains of light
\nand wove crowns and cast them forth, thousands of millions, and the power of the Great
\nSpirit through their wills bore them upon the heads of the Brides and Bridegrooms.)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Response: Crown of Thy crown, O Jehovih! Glory be to Thee, Creator of worlds!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. Ye’a-Goo: The Father’s ship hath come for His chosen. Walk ye in and rejoice, for ye
\nare His harvest. Gods and Goddesses are waiting for you, as a woman waiteth for her
\nfirst-born. They will receive you with joy and love. Yea, they are crying out unto me,
\nDaughter of Jehovih, why tarriest thou so long.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. Lika now saluted the Brides and Bridegrooms, and said: Arise, O my beloved, and go
\nyour ways, the Father calleth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. The Brides and Bridegrooms saluted, saying: Alas, we have not paid our teacher,
\nAhura. And every one plucked from the rays of Jehovih’s light a flower of love, and cast
\nit at Ahura’s feet, saying: Most blessed of Gods, love of my love; Jehovih be with thee!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. Ahura responded not; only burst into tears. And now, whilst the Brides and
\nBridegrooms were going into the ship, Ye’a-Goo came along the platform, accompanied
\nby the chief marshal, and his staff, and these were followed by Ye’a-Goo’s high Council.
\nThe Rapon Chiefs rose up and received them, and they all sat on Jehovih’s throne in
\nrelaxation and fellowship.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. Thus ended the ceremony. The music of the two spheres now commenced; Ye’a-Goo
\nand her hosts embarked, and she gave the word, Arise! and lo, the great avalanza started
\nfrom its foundation, amidst a universal shout of applause from the four thousand millions.
\nHigher and higher rose the ship of fire, toward the bridge Chinvat, toward the etherean
\nheavens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 18<\/span><\/p>\n

1. After the judgment of Anuhasaj and Chesota at Theovrahkistan, Ahura asked Lika for
\nassistance to remove the remainder of Vara-pishanaha to Hao-yusta, which Lika granted,
\nallotting ten millions of his etherean hosts to accomplish it. With these Ahura and
\nAnuhasaj and Chesota accomplished the removal.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. In not many days after this, Sudga was delivered from the hells of Auprag, of which
\nevent Ahura had been previously informed, as to the time thereof, and he accordingly
\nwent to Auprag, to be in readiness to receive Sudga, and help restore him if required.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Sudga, on his delivery from the knot, where there had been thirty millions bound, was
\nbereft of reason, but not gentle like Anuhasaj, but fierce, battling right and left, a very<\/span>
\nmaddened maniac that neither saw nor heard, but raved and cursed with all his strength,
\nchoked up with madness. For all the curses of his broken-down kingdom recoiled upon
\nhimself; the projective curses of his thousands of millions of slaves were piercing his soul
\nfrom every quarter.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. But they held him fast and carried him into the ship, which sailed for Hao-yusta,
\nwhither he was landed in the same condition. Ahura was with him, and Ahura caused a
\ncircle of deliverance to assemble and labor in the restoration. And it required thirty days
\nand nights to bring him round, so he could even see and hear; but as for his judgment it
\nwas yet a hundred days more before it manifested.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. So Ahura could not wait longer with him, but returned to the hells where Te-in was
\nbound, the Ak-a-loo-ganuz, for Te-in was to be delivered. But herein was Ahura also
\ndisappointed, for Te-in was neither frightened nor wild nor mad; but limpid, helpless as
\nwater and without knowledge, more than a vessel of water. His energies had all been
\nexhausted, and in a dead swoon he lay in the heart of the knot. Him they also carried to
\nHao-yusta, and Ahura provided for his restoration.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. But yet, ere Te-in awoke from his stupor, Ahura departed for Osiris, who was bound in
\nthe hells of Prayogotha. Osiris had been in hell now for more than a hundred years, and in
\na knot for fifty years.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. When the false Osiris was delivered, he was deranged, but preaching Jehovih, calling
\neverybody Jehovih, and everything Jehovih. Him they also carried to Hao-yusta and
\nprovided restoration for him. And Ahura went thither also to assist with all his wisdom
\nand strength.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Thus were delivered all the self-Gods who had rebelled against Jehovih and established
\nthe great confederacy, of which not one vestige was now left.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. But of all the angels delivered out of the hells and knots not one in ten was of sound
\njudgment, whilst more than half of them were only drujas at best.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Thus was founded the new kingdom of Hao-yusta, but yet in charge of the ethereans,
\nwho were to commit it to Anuhasaj and his one-time confederates, for their deliverance.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. It came to pass in course of time that Sudga and Te-in and Osiris were restored to
\njudgment, and in this matter Anuhasaj and Ahura and Chesota were constant workers.
\nAnd when they were all restored, they in turn fell to, to restore others, to which labor they
\nwere committed till the close of dawn.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Osiris and Te-in and Sudga all desired to go before Lika, to be adjudged and
\nsentenced; and they all sentenced themselves, which was granted unto them. On this
\noccasion Osiris said:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Thy lessons are near at hand, O Jehovih. But who will learn them? Mortals go insane,
\nbecause they have not learned to throw their cares upon Thee. To throw government
\nupon Thee, O Jehovih, is not this wisdom? To cast riches and kingdoms into Thy lap;
\nto own nothing; to have nothing; is not this the sum of the highest happiness?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Whoso doeth this will battle against no man for anything in heaven or earth. But he
\nwho doeth otherwise will soon or late descend into hell. For what is hell but the opposite
\nof bliss? What is battling against others, but sowing the seed of anarchy in one’s own
\nsoul? To battle against others is to gain the lower, by sacrificing the higher, of which
\nlatter Thou, O Jehovih, art the summit.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. To go against Thee, O Father, is to go against one’s fellows; to go against one’s<\/span>
\nfellows is to go against Thee. And who can go against Thee but will soon or late evolve
\nhis own fall?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Thou hast given to mortals, kings, queens, and shown them that soon or late their
\nkingdoms will fall to pieces. And yet Lords and Gods, seeing these things, will not
\nbelieve. Every one, in his own conceit, imagineth his particular kingdom will be governed
\nmore wisely than all his predecessors. And yet his also falleth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Now will I turn to find Thee, O Jehovih, and the search shall be everlasting.
\nKingdoms are nothing to me; all possession, save wisdom and love, are but vanity and
\nvexation. I know Thou art above all else, and yet Thou art that that hath given Thyself all
\naway, so that none can look upon Thy face. Verily hast Thou hid Thyself away; to be like
\nunto Thee is to hide away the self of one-self; and that that will remain will be Thy
\nmouth-piece and Thy hand.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. Then spake Sudga unto Jehovih, saying: Why was I puffed up, seeing that I created
\nnot even mine own self. Neither had I anything in earth or heaven to use or to work with,
\nbut the substance was made already. Yea, I leapt into Thy garden which Thou hadst
\nplanted.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. I raised up my voice against Thee; because Thou wert too Holy for my gross senses to
\nbehold, I condemned Thee. I wanted Thee gross that I could look upon Thee; that I could
\nwalk around Thee, and behold Thy stature. I saw that all men were like unto me in this.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. Therefore I made a figure-head of myself; I said unto Thy children: Behold me! And
\nat first they were pleased, because they imagined they had found a Creator they could
\nmeasure. But Thine eye was upon me, Thine hand pointed the way and the manner of my
\niniquity. And they searched me out and found I was but a man, like unto themselves.
\nWherefore they condemned me.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. The fool acknowledgeth no person save he can grapple therewith, and find the arms,
\nand the length thereof, and the feet and their standing place. How vain I was in this, O
\nJehovih!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. He that professed Thy Person I denounced as a fool; because I saw not Thy
\ncompleteness Thou sufferedst me to pursue my vanity. Because I had risen above
\nacknowledging Thy Person I was forced to make man the All Highest; and this drove me
\nto make myself the all highest man. But Thou camest not against me to beat me from my
\niniquity, but gavest me full play to do my utmost.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. On all sides hast Thou encompassed Thy creation with liberty. Even Thine enemy
\nThou hast not restrained. He standeth in public, saying: Jehovih, I deny Thee. If Thou art
\nmightier than I, strike me down. Behold, I deny Thee and Thy Person! Thou Void
\nNothingness! Thou fool Creator, with Thy half-created world. Thou who hast created sin!
\nAnd created misery! Thou Father of evil! O Thou dumb Nothing.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. Yea, even to him hast Thou given free speech; and he buildeth up his own soul in his
\nown way. And for a season he is the delight of the druk and the druj; yea, they fasten
\nupon him, and he gaineth a multitude of evil ones, divided one against another, but the
\nseed of his curses taketh root in them, and he becometh encompassed with foulness and
\nbondage.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

25. To find harmony in Thee, O Jehovih; to measure the Goodness of Thee; to rejoice in
\none’s joys; to treasure Thy best gifts; to laud Thy love; to love Thee because Thou hast
\ngiven me power to love, and things to love; to rejoice in Thy fruits and flowers and all<\/span>
\nperfected things; to harp forever upon Thy glories and the magnitude of Thy creation; to
\nsing praises to Thee for harmony wherever found; to love to comprehend all good things;
\nto find the good that is in all men and women; to rejoice in delights; to teach others to
\nrejoice, and to search after all perfected beauties and goodness and righteousness and
\nlove; these shall be my service unto Thee, my everlasting Father.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

26. To seek not to find imperfections; to seek not to find inharmonies; to seek not to find
\nevil; to seek not to find ugliness; to seek not to find evil in others, nor their darkness nor
\nshortcomings; to seek not to prove imperfections upon Thee, O Jehovih; to find no fault
\nwith Thee; to complain not against Thee; to complain not for trials nor for hardships, nor
\nfor the evil others inflict me with; to quibble not, because I can not comprehend Thy
\nvastness; to quibble not for myself; to speak not evilly against anything Thou hast created.
\nO make Thou me strong and wise forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

27. Te-in spake to Jehovih, saying: Wherein is the limit of experience, O Jehovih! And
\nhow short have I not been before Thee, My Father! Behold, I had learned all philosophies;
\nI had been taught for a long season in the right way, but I rebelled against Thee, my
\nCreator.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

28. I had been taught to horde not up anything; to own nothing; to desire nothing but
\nwisdom and love. And Thy teachers, O Jehovih, showed me the evidence of thousands of
\ngreat rulers, and every one of them had come to evil and destruction. Why then, O Father,
\nwas I not wise in the evidence before me? But I rose up against all this testimony, and I
\nfashioned a mighty kingdom. Yea, Thou sufferedst me to try in mine own way to the full.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

29. I went not by peace but by war; I raised me up standing armies and great warriors
\nwithout limit; by force I established myself, but only as a tree that groweth up and is cut
\ndown. But what was I in Thy great universe, O Jehovih. What was my experience but the
\nrepetition of others who had been before me.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

30. Now will I be wise; most cautious in my wisdom, and slow to proceed. But how can I
\nmake my experience profitable unto others? Thou hast stood me afar off; whoso heareth
\nme will say: Ah, had I tried it I had succeeded better. Thou prickest each one to go in and
\ntry, but they all fail. Yea, they reiterate their failure; but where is the profit of this
\nexperience unto others? How can I ever reach them, O Jehovih!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

31. What profit have I more than a mortal that dwelleth on the earth? Have not the
\nangels testified for thousands of years that the rich man was crippling his own soul, and
\nthat the king and queen were binding themselves with chains for the habitation of
\nhell? But they will not heed; every one hopeth he at least will find a way to escape; to
\ngain prestige over others; to be a leader; to have servants; to be idle; to live at ease; to
\nhave great possessions; to revel in luxuries. Are not these more powerful than
\nexperience; greater in the eyes of the ignorant than all the wisdom of earth and heaven.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

32. Thou hast wisely shaped Thy creatures, O Father! Thou makest great servants of
\nus in a way we know not of. Behold, I desired a mighty kingdom in heaven, and
\nThou gavest one into my hand. Yea, I flattered myself with my success; I laughed at
\nthe Gods who had been before my time. How things are changed now, O Jehovih!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

33. Thou hast made me a servant of servants; yea, by mine own hand have I bound
\nmyself about. Have I not heard mortals say: O that I had a kingdom to rule over! O that I
\nhad great riches, how good I would be! And because Thou deniest them for their own
\ngood, they complain against Thee. Who shall answer for the vanity of men and angels!<\/span>
\nThey have not patience with Thee, who created them alive and knowest what is best.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

34. One saith: Yonder is a great king, why doeth he not a great good? Or, yonder is a rich
\nman, why doeth he not a great good also. O that I were in their places.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

35. How shall I show them, O Father, that to be a king is to go away from doing good;
\nthat to be a rich man is to deny goodness? Yea, by the very act of possession is he
\ntestimony in the opposite way. For he that is good giveth all; even as Thou gavest all and
\nso made all things. And the greater the possession the greater the bondage. Who hath so
\nsmall responsibility as he who hath nothing? This is the sum of wisdom, O Jehovih; and
\nall men and angels soon or late will acknowledge it.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

36. Better hast Thou made it for the servant than for the master; better for the poor than
\nthe rich; and these things will also come to their understanding in course of time. But how
\ncan I, O Father, make them to know wisdom without experience, to accept the testimony
\nof others’tortures in hell?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

37. Behold, Thou gavest me great learning when I was of the earth; and when in hada
\ngreat advantages to attain to deep wisdom; but, after all, I was caught in a snare of my
\nown setting. How much, then, O Father, must I expect of the multitude? Happy is he who
\nhath nothing, and desireth only wisdom and love. To cultivate such a garden, what a
\nharvest will ripen out unto him.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

38. When the three had thus spoken before the throne and before the high Council, Ahura
\nstood aside and spake also. He said:<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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