{"id":451,"date":"2019-08-12T22:14:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T22:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=451"},"modified":"2019-08-12T22:14:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T22:14:47","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-tuesday-august-13th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2019\/08\/12\/lectionary-readings-for-tuesday-august-13th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Tuesday, August 13th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

God’s Book of Eskra Chapters 7, 8, and 9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. At the time the roadways of the earth’s heavens were completed, which was in the three
\nhundred and ninetieth year of the cycle of Bon, this was the standing thereof, to wit:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. There had ascended, as Brides and Bridegrooms, for etherea, thirty-six thousand
\nmillions; nearly one-half of whom were from the kingdoms of Anuhasaj and his subGods.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. And now inhabiting the five spheres, forty-eight thousand million spirits.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. In the first sphere, or hada, in which there were two thousand four hundred heavenly
\nkingdoms, the grades were from one to seven.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. In the second sphere, which ranked first resurrection in those days, the grades were
\nfrom seven to fifteen. In these regions there were ten thousand heavenly kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. In the third sphere the grades were from fifteen to thirty. In these regions there were
\nfour thousand heavenly kingdoms. And including the kingdoms of Anuhasaj, five
\nthousand more kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. In the fourth sphere, the grades were from thirty to sixty, and there were one thousand
\nfive hundred heavenly kingdoms in these regions.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. In the fifth sphere, the grades were from sixty to ninety-nine, and here were one
\nthousand heavenly kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. And yet, not included in these, because of a different kind, were the kingdoms of
\nYaton’te, the subjective heaven, a visiting place, and with but a small fixed population,
\nbut whose visitors and students and teachers numbered three thousand million angels,
\ngraded from one to ninety-nine. But many of these belonged in other heavenly kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Such then were the inhabitants of the bound heavens. And they numbered, all told,
\nforty-eight times more people than the mortal inhabitants of the earth. But in those days
\nnot many women on the earth committed abortions; neither died so many very young
\nchildren; so that the fetals sent back to inhabit mortals numbered, all told, only two
\nhundred and thirty millions. Whilst of vampire spirits, of both classes, (that is, such
\nas inhabit gormandizers, and gluttons, and drunkards, and harlots, absorbing their
\nspiritual sustenance, and thus making them the breeders of infidels; and such as live
\non the atmospherean part of mortal food, thus causing their mortal victims to
\nemaciate and to become insane), there were, all told, not more than forty-six millions.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Besides these, there were thirty-one million lusters, who feed on the secret vices of
\nmortals; who were being forever pursued from place to place by ashars, and often
\ncaptured and carried away to heavenly kingdoms; but would often escape and flee back to
\nmortals. Yet, with all these fetals, and vampires and lusters included, never before had the
\nearth remained so long in so pure a state.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. When the roadways were completed, God proclaimed seven days recreation in
\nall the kingdoms of heaven, in order that the inhabitants should sing and dance
\nand render praise unto Jehovih for the great works that had been accomplished.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. And on the last of the seven days, Toyvraghah assigned the roads over to God, and<\/span>
\nnamed them, R<\/span>OADS IN <\/span>P<\/span>ARADISE<\/span>. Whereupon God crowned Toyvraghah, P<\/span>RIMAL <\/span>G<\/span>OD OF
\nTHE <\/span>R<\/span>OADS OF <\/span>P<\/span>ARADISE<\/span>, of twelve hundred thousand miles.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. God said: After the manner of the government of the etherean heavens do I these
\nthings.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. And as the kingdoms and spheres of my heavens are situated, within and without,
\nwith their roadways and heavenly canals, forming one great kingdom with many parts, it
\nshall be a type of the kingdoms in etherea, which are thousands of times larger. And it
\nwas so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Jehovih hath said: I gave to man legs and feet to walk; arms and hands to work; eyes to
\nsee, and ears to hear; and, withal, the capacity to reflect and comprehend and understand.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. I gave none of these capacities to man to lie dormant or to be useless. Neither can any
\nman advance to My highest kingdoms if crippled, or weak, or uncultivated, in all or part
\nof these talents I have given him.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. But he shall be perfected in all particulars before he is capacitated for companionship
\nwith My exalted ones.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. The Lord said: It mattereth little what kind of workmanship a man doeth; for one may
\ntill the soil, and thus train his hands and arms to full development; and another may
\nweave, or spin, or forge iron, and also attain full development. It is not the kind of labor,
\nbut the development that comes of useful practice, which maketh every talent to stand
\nupright in heaven as a glory to the Creator.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. For there be servants on earth, who neither read nor write, that are better developed
\nin their talents and members than many of the rich, and kings and philosophers.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. And when they die and enter my heavenly places, the ranks and caste in my kingdoms
\nseem to them to be upside-down. The rich man, or the king, or the pleader (lawyer), or
\npriest, or the philosopher, may be as a helpless child, whilst he who was as a pauper on
\nearth may be as a very God over them to lift them up.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Neither is the preference to the rich, nor the poor, nor to the philosopher, nor the fool;
\nfor any of these may be as dwarfs in some talent or part, whilst also any of these may be a
\nmost perfect man in spirit.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. So, God established, through his high-raised officers, schools and colleges and
\nfactories, heavenly, adapted to the spirits of the dead, even as similar places are
\nestablished on the earth for mortals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 9<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. The Lord said: Aside from the orderly kingdoms of God, there were seven false
\nkingdoms in hada, ruled over by false Gods and false Goddesses. Chief of these were
\nBaal, with four thousand million angel slaves; Ashtaroth, false Goddess, with three
\nthousand million angel slaves; Hi’lizar, with three thousand million angel slaves;
\nSodonius, Goddess, with two million angel slaves, and then came Fue-Sin, Hrivatza.
\nBeside these there were six hundred false Lords and Lordesses, who had occupied the
\nmortal temples of worship, and the oracle temples.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>2. But the latter were driven away from mortals by command of God, that they might be
\ninduced to seek resurrection.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. And God foresaw that the travel of the earth would cause her to pass through an a’ji’an
\nforest of four hundred years, and that darkness would be upon the lower heavens.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. And God sent down to the earth angel inspectors and numerators and recorders to
\nprepare the record of mortals for the libraries of heaven. And there were of inspectors,
\nfour hundred thousand angels; of numerators, twelve thousand; and graders, ninety
\nthousand; of recorders and scribes, forty thousand; and of bearers, six hundred thousand.
\nBesides these were the messengers, heralds and musicians, of whom there were sixty
\nthousand.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Such was the army sent down to the earth according to God’s command. And they were
\nin charge of Toyvraghah and Yulis and Hagonte and Rufus.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. And God called up the great mathematicians, Yahimus, Menres, Fargawitha,
\nHowitchkal, Jemima, Jordan, Molakka, Kossitus, Makkas and Agebon; and God said
\nunto them:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. The time of the fall of a’ji on the earth is at hand. Compute ye the regions of the
\nearth where it will fall most; and having determined, go ye to the mortal prophets
\nwho are in su’is, and cause them to prophesy unto the inhabitants of the earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. The mathematicians saluted and departed for the earth, as commanded of God.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Now when God foresaw that darkness was near at hand, for a period of four hundred
\nyears, he commanded his Holy Council and his heavenly kingdoms to pray to Jehovih for
\nthe space of one day, for wisdom and strength.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. In answer to their prayers, there came a swift messenger from Lika, Orian Chief, Son
\nof Jehovih; he came from Takuspe, in the etherean worlds, in an etherean arrow-ship,
\nwith thirty thousands. His name was, Yotaportas, God of Eriasa, in the plains of
\nWoo’Sin. And when he had come before the throne of God, duly saluting, he said:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. In Jehovih’s name I come, greeting by His Son, Lika. God said: In Jehovih’s name I
\nam blessed by thy presence, God of Eriasa, Nirvanian Host. What wouldst thou?<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Yotaportas said: By command of Jehovih, through His exalted Son, thou shalt
\nwithdraw thine emissaries from the kingdoms of Baal and Ashtaroth, and from all
\nkingdoms on the earth, whose mortals pay obedience to false Gods. A’ji of four hundred
\nyears will reign upon the earth and her heavens. It is so determined and provided by the
\nHoly Etherean Dispensers of roads in Vragapathon. Of which matters I am sent to thee
\nthat thou mayest be duly provided therefore.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. The time is also now at hand when the I’hins, the sacred people, the mound-builders,
\nwill cease to dwell on the earth. The darkness which is necessary to the earth will be
\ntoo much for them. The heavens that have heretofore received their spirits shall be
\ndissolved, and the plateaux thereof removed to the outer rim of the earth’s vortex.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. The Lords’reports showed there were at this time on the earth two million three
\nhundred thousand I’hins. Of these, seven hundred thousand inhabited Egupt and western
\nArabin’ya; two hundred thousand inhabited Chine’ya, the Jaffeth of the ancients; and the
\nbalance, for the most part, inhabited North Guatama and toward Hon’ya-pan.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Such, then, were all that remained of a people that once covered over the whole earth,
\nmore than a thousand million of them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. God declared a day of recreation in honor of Yotaportas; and the angels of heaven had<\/span>
\ngreat rejoicing.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. And on the day following, Yotaportas, with his hosts, departed for Eriasa, in etherea.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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