{"id":283,"date":"2019-06-20T07:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T07:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=283"},"modified":"2019-06-20T07:55:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T07:55:58","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-thursday-june-20th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2019\/06\/20\/lectionary-readings-for-thursday-june-20th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Thursday, June 20th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book of the Arc of Bon Chapters 13 and 14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 13<\/span><\/p>\n

1. God commanded his loo’is, in the high heavens, saying: Descend ye to the earth, to the
\nland of Egupt, and raise me up a son capable of my voice.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. The angels descended as commanded and searched over the land of Egupt and in the
\nadjoining countries, examining into the flesh and the souls of men. And they called unto
\nGod, saying: The land of Egupt is overrun with spirits of darkness (drujas), and mortals
\nhave attained to see them; and they dwell together as one people, angels and mortals.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. God said: Go ye amongst my chosen until ye find a man capable of understanding
\nbetwixt truth and fable. Him inspire ye to an I’hin woman for my voice.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. In Ellakas the loo’is found a man, Baksa, a Fonecean, a Faithist, born a su’is, and they
\nsaid unto him: Why art thou alone in the world? Baksa said: Alas, mine eyes have never
\nseen God; mine ears never heard him. I am searching for God in the life of a recluse.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. The loo’is perceived what manner of man he was, and they led him to take an I’hin<\/span>
\nwoman to wife, and she bore him a son, Hasumat.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. The loo’is guarded Hasumat till he was grown, and they spake to him, trying him also
\nas to his power to distinguish angel voices.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Him they also inspired to take an I’hin woman to wife, and she bore a son, Saichabal,
\nwho was guarded in the same way. And the angels inspired Saichabal, to marry Terratha,
\nof the line (house) of Zed. Terratha bore a daughter who was named Edamas. And
\nEdamas bore a son by an I’hin father without marriage, and she called his name Levi,
\nsignifying joined together (because his toes were not separate on the right foot, nor the
\nfingers separate on the right hand). And Levi grew to be a large man, larger than two
\nlarge men.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Levi, being of the fourth birth of I’hin blood, was not acknowledged an heir of the
\nchosen race, the Faithists. Therefore Levi established a new line, which was called, the
\nHouse of Levi.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Levi, not being eligible to a Faithist wife, was inspired by the loo’is to take an
\nI’hin, Metissa, to wife. Metissa bore him a son, Kohath, who, at maturity, was admitted
\nto the Order of Avah, the third degree of Faithists, whereupon he was circumcised,
\nand afterward called an Israelite, the name given to the Faithists of Egupt.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Kohath took to wife, Mirah, a devout worshipper of Jehovih. Mirah bore him a son,
\nAmram, who took to wife Yokebed, sister-in-law to Kohath, and she bore him a son, who
\nwas Moses.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Before Moses’birth the loo’is perceived that he would be capable of the Father’s
\nvoice, and they called unto God saying: In the next generation, behold, thy son will be
\nborn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 14<\/span><\/p>\n

1. In these days in Egupt there were houses of records, where the affairs of the state, and
\nof the king and governors, were recorded; and there were recorded also the births and
\nmarriages and deaths of people.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. The languages of the learned were Fonecean and Parsi’e’an; but the native languages
\nwere Eguptian, Arabaic and Eustian and Semis. The times by the learned gave two suns
\nto a year, but the times of the tribes of Eustia gave only six months to a year.
\nAccordingly, in the land of Egupt what was one year with the learned was two years with
\nthe Eustians and Semisians.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. God said: My people shall reckon their times according to the place and the people
\nwhere they dwell. And they did this. Hence, even the tribes of Israel had two calendars of
\ntime, the long and the short.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. To events of prophecy there was also another calendar, called the ode, signifying skytime, or heavenly times. One ode was equivalent to eleven long years; three odes, one
\nspell, signifying a generation; eleven spells one Tuff. Thothma, the learned man and
\nbuilder of the great pyramid, had said: As a diameter is to a circle, and as a circle is to a
\ndiameter, so are the rules of the seasons of the earth. For the heat or the cold, or the
\ndrouth or the wet, no matter, the sum of one eleven years is equivalent to the sum
\nof another eleven years. One <\/span>SPELL <\/span>is equivalent to the next eleventh spell. And one
\ncycle matcheth every eleventh cycle. Whoever will apply these rules to the earth
\nshall truly prophesy as to drought and famine and pestilence, save wherein man<\/span>
\ncontraveneth by draining or irrigation. And if he apply himself to find the light and the
\ndarkness of the earth, these rules are sufficient. For as there are three hundred and sixtythree years in one tuff, so are there three hundred and sixty-three days in one year, besides
\nthe two days and a quarter when the sun standeth still on the north and south lines.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. In consequence of these three calendars, the records of Egupt were in confusion. The
\nprophecies and genealogies of man became worthless. And as to measurements, some
\nwere by threes, some by tens, and some by twelves; and because of the number of
\nlanguages, the measurements became confounded; so that with all the great learning of
\nthe Eguptians, and with all the care bestowed on the houses of records, they became even
\nthemselves the greatest confounding element of all.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Jehovih had said: For two thousand years I gave My enemies a loose rein; and they
\nhave the longest line of kings in all the world; and yet in the midst of their prosperity they
\nfall down like a drunken man. Even their language is become like a pearl that is lost in a
\nmire.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Jehovih said: Because the kings of Egupt have outlawed My people, and denied
\nthem the right to obtain great learning, behold My people are divided also. One tribe
\nhath one speech, another tribe another speech, and so on, till they can not now
\nunderstand one another; save, in fact, in their rites, and signs, and pass-words.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Yea, the kings have perceived that to keep My people in ignorance is to keep them
\nforever in bondage. But I will raise up a leader, Moses, amongst My chosen, and I
\nwill send him even into the house of the king, and the king shall give him great
\nlearning; he shall master all languages, and be capable of speaking with all My people.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Because the Israelites (Faithists) worshipped not the Gods and Lords, but the Great
\nSpirit only, and because they resented not injury done by another, they had been limited
\ninto servitude by the Eguptian laws, which had stood for fifteen hundred years. These
\nlaws were called the Sun laws, after the manner of the division of the Osirian system,
\nwhich was:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. The sun is a central power; its accompanying planets are satellites. In like manner the
\nking of Egupt was the Sun King, and his sub-kings (governors) were satellites. Osiris, the
\nhighest angel in heaven, was the Sun God, that is, God of Gods; for all other Gods were
\nhis satellites. He revealed certain laws to mortals, and these were the Sun laws; and
\nall minor laws were satellites. A Sun law extended over all of Egupt, but a satellite
\nlaw pertained to the minor affairs of a city or province; but it must conform to the
\nSun laws. For in those days the spirits of darkness taught that the sun once whirled so
\nfast it cast off its outer extreme, and so made the earth, and moon, and stars; and this
\nwas the accepted philosophy of the learned Eguptians of that period. Because the worlds
\nrun in circles (orbits), the circle was the highest measure, or sun measure; and the
\ndiameter of the circle was called, the ode, a Fonecean word, signifying short measure.
\nAnd this name, ode, was applied to the Israelites in satire, as the Anglo-Saxon word,
\nodius, is used to this day. But the Israelites made sweet songs and called them odes also.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Amongst the Sun laws were the following, to wit: The God of Gods (i.e., Osiris)
\ndecreeth: Whoso boweth not down to me shall not partake of me. Behold, mine is the
\nsign of the circle! My enemies shall not receive great learning.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. They shall not hold sun places (be employers), but be as servants only all their lives.
\nAnd these signs shall discover them:<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>13. If they worship not me, but the Great Spirit;
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. If they deny that the Creator is in the image of a man;
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. If they circumcise, and will not serve as soldiers;
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Then their possessions are forfeited already; nor shall they possess houses in their
\nown names; nor send their children to the schools; for they shall be servants and the
\nservants of servants forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Under the Eguptian laws it was accounted a sufficient crime of idolatry to worship the
\nGreat Spirit, Jehovih, that the Israelites were not even admitted to the courts to be tried
\nfor an offence, but fell under the jurisdiction of the master for whom they labored, and his
\njudgments were unappealable.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. Now at the time of the birth of Moses, there were in Egupt thirteen millions of
\ninhabitants; and of these, four millions were Faithists (Israelites), more or less. For
\namongst the Israelites not all were of full faith, but many, to shirk the rigors of the Sun
\nlaws, professed to be worshippers of God (Osiris), and they would also enlist as soldiers,
\nand otherwise connive in the ways of men, for sake of favors.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. For which reason the Sun King (Pharaoh) feared the time might come when the
\nIsraelites might revolt against the Sun laws or become soldiers and confederate with
\nforeign kingdoms for the overthrow of the Eguptian dynasty.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. For more than three hundred years the God Baal and the Goddess Ashtaroth
\nhad driven the foreign kingdoms to war; and in consequence of these wars the
\nFaithists had fled into Egupt, and even accepted servitude rather than be slain elsewhere.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. Jehovih had said: Behold, mine enemies in killing one another, frighten off My
\nchosen. Now will I lead them into Egupt together and give unto them a great leader, and
\nhe shall restore My doctrines unto them, and I will afterward deliver them into lands of
\ntheir own.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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