{"id":462,"date":"2019-08-16T20:01:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T20:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=462"},"modified":"2019-08-17T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T18:03:02","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-saturday-august-17th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2019\/08\/16\/lectionary-readings-for-saturday-august-17th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Saturday, August 17th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seventh-Day Sabbath<\/em><\/p>\n

God’s Book of Eskra Chapters 19, 20, and 21<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 19<\/span><\/p>\n

1. God called up Erastes, prince of messengers, and he said unto him: Thou hast heard the
\nwords of thy God and of Taenas. Take therefore thirty thousand and four hundred
\nmessengers, that is, one for each and all of my remaining kingdoms, and go and proclaim
\nthe same unto them, that they, having due notice, may manage their affairs with wisdom
\nand foresight. Erastes said: Jehovih’s will and thine be done! And he saluted and
\nwithdrew, going to the palace of the messengers, and choosing his hosts, whom he
\ninstructed in regard to the message. And he gave to each of them power to choose their
\nown officers, and to provide their own vessels of travel. And in not many days thereafter,
\nthey all departed.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>2. Now it came to pass, that the following kingdoms soon fell to pieces, and drifted into
\nthe Triune Confederacy, namely: Sho’e’gan, and her twenty-eight sub-kingdoms, all in the
\nhadan regions; Ghi’e’wan, and her forty-four heavenly hadan kingdoms; Haotus, with
\nseven heavenly hadan kingdoms, and five sub-kingdoms; Tuwahtal, and thirty kingdoms
\nin the first resurrection in the plateau Theovrahkistan; Livragga, and seventy-one
\nheavenly sub-kingdoms, of which thirty-eight were ready to enter the second resurrection;
\nJahkin and Mouru, with ninety-seven heavenly hadan kingdoms, of which eighty-seven
\nwere promoted to the second resurrection; Ganzoe, with four hundred hadan kingdoms, of
\nwhich many were below the first resurrection; Hapsu, with four heavenly kingdoms of
\nseventy million angels in the second resurrection; Iturba, with twelve heavenly kingdoms
\nof one hundred and four million angels in the second resurrection, half of whom were as
\nhigh as fifty in the grades; Wantawacha, with thirty heavenly kingdoms, with three
\nhundred million angels in the second resurrection, three-fourths of whom were upward of
\ngrade fifty.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Of the seven lower kingdoms of the second sphere, there were eight hundred million
\nangels of the first resurrection, who migrated from their provinces to the Triune regions,
\nAmesha; and they destroyed the road behind them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Now, when God saw the great secession of his heavenly kingdoms, and their allegiance
\nto the Triunes, his soul was filled with sorrow. And the Voice of Jehovih came to him,
\nsaying: Why takest thou sorrow to thy soul for these things? Shall a God grieve, because
\nhis burden is made lighter? Behold, in this day and hour the Gods and Lords of the Triune
\nare rejoicing with great joy, because of these accessions. Yea, they perceive not, what a
\nload they are taking on their own shoulders.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. But thou shalt send agents amongst the Triunes, especially into their capitals and their
\nchief kingdoms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. So, God appointed many agents, different from messengers, for they were to be under
\nthe command of none but God. God said unto them: Ye shall go to the places I appoint
\nunto each one of you, as travelers and sojourners in your own way, and observe the
\ndoings of the Triunes, especially the chiefs and leaders, Lords and Gods, and their
\nteaching and government, and in your own good time depart out of the place and return
\nhither and inform my Holy Council and my Holy Eleven.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. And the agents went forth as commanded.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 20<\/span><\/p>\n

OF THE CONFEDERACY OF THE HOLY GHOST, CALLED THE TRINITY.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

1. The Lord said: The three heavenly kingdoms, Heractu, Eta-shong and Hapsendi, of the
\nTriunes, were independent, but allianced for offence and defence against the evil Gods,
\nBaal, Dagon, Shulleth, Ashtaroth and others, whose angel subjects were kept in slavery,
\nand for evil purposes.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Now, therefore, the Triunes jointly declared war, to the end that peace might be
\nsecured in these heavens.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Nevertheless, each of the Triunes had charge of his own heavens and over such part of
\nthe earth as was covered by his heavens.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. For they had divided up and appropriated both, the earth and the heavens, into three
\nparts, one to each of them.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>5. Here followeth, then, the history of the wars of the Triunes:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. First, of Looeamong and the false Gods he overthrew:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. A triangular war was going on in hada and on earth betwixt the angel armies of Baal,
\nDagon and Ashtaroth, in which ten thousand million angels were engaged under them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Looeamong declared war against the whole of them, and impressed into his service
\neight thousand million angel warriors.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Ashtaroth, the most vengeful Goddess, had previously sent hundreds of millions of her
\nwarring angels down to the apostate Jews, to inspire them to wars and cruelties on one
\nanother, hoping, to exterminate them, lest they become Baal’s subjects. And yet other
\nmillions of warring angels had she sent to the Parsi’e’an cities, and to the Eguptian cities,
\nDaskrath, Babylon and Gonassah and Tyre and Romaxain and to the kings and queens of
\nmany other great cities, to inspire them to send forth armies to destroy, not only the
\nworshipers of Jehovih, but all people that worshiped Baal, or Dagon, or any other God.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Baal, on the other hand, had sent hundreds of millions of his warring angels down to
\nthe earth, to Heleste and the west regions, and to the Israelites as well, inspiring mortals
\nto war against the east kingdoms, especially Babylon and Daskrath, two mighty cities in
\nthe dominions of the Goddess Ashtaroth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. And the armies of mortals were moved forth by the armies of angels, whom they saw
\nnot; war raged east and west and north and south.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Looeamong, the Triune, said: I will spoil them both. I will send an angel army of
\nwarriors down to the middle kingdoms, to the great tyrant, Cyrus. I will possess the
\noracles and direct Cyrus to march against Parsi’e. He shall make an alliance with the
\nArgos’yans.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Hatchesan and Karsoka shall be my countries. And the cities of Hemia and Babylon
\nand Nine’vah and Gassakad and Hannedan and Saluem shall bow down no more to Baal
\nand Ashtaroth, forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Belus shall be mine, and the cities and temples of Hina and Maroth and Hovan and
\nTorres and Delfi; and the habitations of Phires and Somak and Macedon and Thues, and
\nthe great oracle-houses of Myrsilus and Myrsus and Gyges and Simon and Gamma and
\nFabiyan and Sulus and Craz’ya and Wakadya and P’hrid and Gemnae and Ma’zan and
\nR’hodae.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. By force will I possess them; yea, by force drive hence all other angels and Gods. And
\nmy warrior angels shall possess these temples, so that whoso cometh to consult the Gods
\nshall receive mine own answers. I will drive mortals to war in mine own way, and to
\nwhatever place I determine to subdue or destroy.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Equally menacing were the boasts of the Goddess Ashtaroth; she had said: Whether I
\ndespoil heaven and earth, I care not. If I can not possess them, I will destroy them, so that
\nno God shall possess them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Into festering knots and hells will I cast tens of thousands of millions of angels, in
\ncase I do not succeed in winning all.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. I will send millions of warring angels down to Xerxes, the Parsi’e’an king, and to his
\nkingdom, and they shall obsess every man, woman and child to desperate madness
\nagainst the Argos’yans and the middle and west nations.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. I will lead Xerxes forth with the mightiest army that has ever been on the earth. And
\nthey shall despoil all regions, whithersoever they march.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>20. For I will make Xerxes and all the Parsi’e’ans believe, they are doing these things for
\ntheir own prosperity and glory, and for despoiling their own enemies.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. And, after Xerxes hath despoiled and conquered all the earth regions, Baal and all
\nother Gods shall be driven away from the oracles and temples. Xerxes shall issue a
\ndecree, abolishing all other Gods but me, Ashtaroth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22. And, when I am thus well anchored on the earth, I will turn my legions against this
\nnew upstart God, the Triune, Looeamong. And I will cast him into a hell, from which he
\nshall not escape forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. So, Ashtaroth concentrated her heavenly warriors into this great and desperate
\nwork. For she had been maturing her plans, even before Xerxes came to the throne
\nof Parsi’e. And, since, in those days, the kings and rich men in all those countries
\nconsulted the spirits, in reference to all important undertakings, it was not a difficult
\nfeat for Ashtaroth to obsess the millions of Parsi’e’ans to carry out her project.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. Accordingly, Ashtaroth commanded her marshals to summon two thousand million
\nangel warriors, men and women, for the work in hand. And when they came to Neabissa,
\na heavenly region to the north, over the earth-mountains Afflo’yagga, she caused Mateus,
\nher chief orator, to prepare a speech in her behalf, and have it declaimed before the angel
\nwarriors.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

25. Mateus, a one-time Lord to Osiris, nine hundred years previous, now made the
\nspeech, and this that followeth is a synopsis, to wit:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

26. I, Goddess of all the heavens and of the whole earth. Behold, me, Ashtaroth!
\nThe earth and the heavens are mine, saith Ashtaroth! I clove the sun in twain; for it is
\nmine. I clove the pieces again; for they were mine. From these I made the stars and the
\nmoon. But the great earth I made as my foot-stool; for it was mine, and ever shall be.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

27. I peopled it over with all the living; they were my creation. And ye also are mine. I
\npeopled the stars, and gave to the inhabitants thereof great delights. And the earth and my
\nheavens were places of great delight. For I gave bountifully to all my children.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

28. But the inhabitants of the far-off stars quarreled because of an evil God, Baal. And
\nthey cast him out. And he came here to despoil me and my heavenly places. Witness ye
\nmy beloved. I could destroy him with my little finger. But he is unworthy of your
\nGoddess. To you I give the glory to capture him, and cast him into hell, and torture him
\nforever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

29. But lest other evil Gods take possession of his earthly places, they shall also
\nbe destroyed. Hear ye then the command of Ashtaroth, which is, that ye shall go down to
\nthe earth, and obsess and inspire the Parsi’e’ans to march forth and destroy all other
\npeople on the earth, beginning first with the stronghold of Baal, in Argos, where he
\nhath many sub-Gods under him, where the Argos’yans, not knowing him, call him, Zeus.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

30. And to whoso proveth valorous amongst my angel warriors, will I give great
\npromotion and glory, and thousands and millions of slaves. For when Baal is overcome
\nand cast into hell, ye shall take his angel slaves, and possess them yourselves, according
\nto your valorous deeds.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

31. Ashtaroth then officered her angel hosts, and sent them down to the earth, and
\nthey were distributed by the captains and generals around about Parsi’e. Being
\ndirected to preside in the presence of mortals by day, inspiring them to war against
\nArgos, and to be with them at night, and talk to them spiritually in dreams and visions.<\/span>
\n
\n<\/span>32. And it came to pass, that Xerxes and the people, the Parsi’e’ans, were moved to go
\nforth and destroy the Argos’yans. And king Xerxes took two and a half million soldiers
\nwith him for his army. And so great was the inspiration and obsession of Ashtaroth’s
\nangels, that they caused another two and a half million of Parsi’e’ans to go with Xerxes’
\nsoldiers. So that Xerxes’whole army was five millions of souls, which was the largest
\narmy on earth, that ever had been, or ever shall be.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 21<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Baal, God of the Argos’yans (Greeks), called together two thousand million angel
\nwarriors, and after properly officering them, caused them to assemble in Beth’hagas, a
\nsub-kingdom of heaven over the Tillag mountains, to the north of Macedon, and he said
\nunto them:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Behold, your Creator, who I am! By my breath upon the earth ye came forth. I am he,
\nwho was of old called, De’yus, Lord God of heaven and earth. All places are my places,
\nall dominion is mine.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. My heavens gave I unto you for your inheritance forever. But an evil Goddess,
\nAshtaroth, hath come to despoil you.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. And she hath sworn upon her thighs to cast you into endless torments.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Behold, I have sworn a new oath on the sun and moon and stars! Ye shall capture her,
\nand cast her and all her angels into hell, to so abide forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. For I will clear the heavens and the earth, and they shall be clean and full of delight.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Hear ye, then, the commandment of your God, Baal, ruler of heaven and earth: Ye shall
\ngo down to the earth, to the Argos’yans, and obsess them, man, woman and child, and
\ninspire them to terrible deeds of blood and havoc and death against the Parsi’e’ans who
\nare coming against them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. And whilst ye are thus providing corporeal destruction for this evil Goddess, my
\nheavenly hosts under Yaawochad, my Lord of Agansetha, shall attack her angel armies in
\nevery quarter of these heavens.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. And as fast as her drujas are captured, they shall be cast into the hells of Gotha, which I
\nhave prepared for them. And to all my valorous workers will I give great promotion and
\npower. Ye shall have servants and slaves without number.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Now, it came to pass, that many years of war and destruction ensued; but Baal’s hosts
\nwere too powerful for Ashtaroth. And so Baal not only overcame her angel warriors on
\nthe earth, but in her heavenly capital also. And his legions rushed upon her, and captured
\nher. Whereat her own angels turned against her, perceiving now that she was an imposter,
\nand not the Creator.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. And they bound her, and carried her and her Lords and Gods off to Toosemmes,
\na heavenly place of foul smells, in Gotha, and they built here a place of torment for
\nher and them, and cast them in. And they brought hither tens of thousands of her
\nofficers, and cast them in, and also the spirits of kings and queens and of generals and
\ncaptains who had been her devotees, who were slain in battle, and who were yet in chaos.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Thus ended the God-ship of Ashtaroth. And there were thus cast into this hell,
\nvoluntary and involuntary, two thousand million angels.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Looeamong, the Triune God, said: This is the end, number one; next shall fall Baal;<\/span>
\nand him will I cast in hell also.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. As to mortals, Xerxes’ mighty armies lived not to return to Parsi’e, but were scattered
\nand destroyed. As to the Argos’yans, they were a ruined people.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. And all those countries were covered over with the spirits of the dead, in chaos.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. For these wars had been going on for many, many years.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Hear ye, next of Kabalactes, Triune God of Vind’yu and her heavens.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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