{"id":99,"date":"2019-04-07T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/?p=99"},"modified":"2019-04-07T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T20:24:07","slug":"lectionary-readings-for-monday-april-8th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religionoflight.org\/ns\/lightofgod\/2019\/04\/07\/lectionary-readings-for-monday-april-8th-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectionary Readings for Monday, April 8th, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book of Divinity Chapters III and IV<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

1. God said: Behold, I come to reveal what was done in heaven, that thou, O man, mayest
\nunderstand the cause of things being done on earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. These Divan laws were made in heaven, and by the Lords of that day, through their
\nangels, given to mortals, whereby mortals became a manifestation of heavenly things.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Here, then, followeth, to wit:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. If a man be not too weak he shall confess to all the Lords with repentance. On the other
\nhand, if he be too weak to utter words, than shall the priest confess him by holding the
\nright hand whilst he saith the holy words. And whilst this is being done, the ashars shall
\nprovide a sufficient number of spirits to receive the newborn, and bring him to the place
\nin heaven that hath been previously selected for him.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. The third Divan law also decreed as followeth: If the es’yan be a Zarathustrian, and his
\nkin in heaven be drujas, he shall not be taken to the heaven where they are; nor shall<\/span>
\nhis kin be permitted to see him for thirty days. But after thirty days in his own
\nplace in heaven, his kin, if drujas, may be permitted to see him, but only under guard.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. The fourth Divan law: If the es’yan be a Zarathustrian, and his kin in heaven belong to
\nthe organic heavens, then he shall be taken to them, and his abiding place shall be with
\nthem for a season.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. The fifth Divan law: If the es’yan be a Zarathustrian, his spirit shall not be suffered to
\nremain longer than three days and three nights about his mortal kindred. And then he
\nshall be taken to his place in heaven, and given into the keeping of the asaphs, who shall
\nexplain all things to him.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. God said: Whilst the mortal priest is reciting prayers after death, in the morning,
\nat noon, and at sunset, the ashars shall assemble in the same house, along with
\nthe newborn spirit, and join in the singing and praying, for it will pacify the spirit and
\nrestore him to know what hath taken place. And this shall be called the sixth Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. God said: And the same law shall apply in the case of a Zarathustrian woman as with
\na man. In the case of a Zarathustrian child, that died in infancy, the Div decreed:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. The seventh Divan law: The child of a Zarathustrian being too young to speak, shall
\nnot make confession, even through the priest. The mortal priest shall say: O Thou Master
\nLight! Behold, my child is dead! Receive Thou its little, tender spirit! Take it to Thy
\nheavenly place of delight! And the ashars shall take the young es’yan to a place suited to
\nit, and deliver it to the asaphs; and the asaphs shall examine it, and, if it require fetal, they
\nshall provide it in heaven, if possible. But if it be too young, then the asaphs, with a
\nsufficient guard, shall take it back to its mortal mother, or to its mortal father, or to its
\nbrother, or its sister, or other near kin, or to whomsoever the asaphs find most advisable.
\nAnd the spirit child shall be put to bed every night with its fetal mother, or fetal father,
\nthat its spirit may draw sustenance sufficient to grow into everlasting life. But the asaphs
\nwho have it in charge shall bring it away in the morning to its place in heaven. But in no
\ncase shall a Zarathustrian spirit child be left to fetal with a contentious mortal woman, nor
\nwith a drunken mortal man.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. God propounded: If a Zarathustrian be dead, and his spirit many years in a place
\nof heavenly delight, and then his mortal wife die, and she be not a Zarathustrian?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. The members of the Diva all spake. Then God decreed the eighth Divan law, which
\nwas: The spirit of such a woman shall not be suffered to go to the place of her husband.
\nFor thirty days she shall be kept in a place suitable for her. After that she may visit her
\nhusband under guard; but until she accept the Ormazdian law, she shall not dwell with the
\nhusband, in heaven, nor with her children, in heaven. And if she have mortal children, she
\nshall not be permitted to see them, save under guard.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. The ninth Divan law was the same, wherein a Zarathustrian woman whose husband
\nwas not a Zarathustrian; for he was bound by the same law, and thus kept separate in
\nheaven until he accepted the Ormazdian law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. God propounded: If a Zarathustrian have a wife who is not a Zarathustrian, and
\nshe have an untimely birth, whether by accident or abortion, what then of the spirit
\nof that child? On this, all the members of Diva spake, and after that, God decreed:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Such spirit shall not be brought to heaven for a season, but shall be fetaled on
\nits natural mother or father, day and night, until the full nine months are completed,
\nand then it shall be delivered with due ceremonies by the ashars. After that it shall<\/span>
\nbe fetaled the same as in the seventh Divan law. And this was the tenth Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. The eleventh Divan law: If a Zarathustrian attain to maturity before he die, his
\nspirit shall be es’yan two years. And during this time he shall be attended by not less
\nthan two asaphs when he goeth away from his heavenly home; and the asaphs shall
\nteach him the mode of travel, the manner of knowing localities, both on the earth and
\nin the first resurrection. And they shall teach him the varieties and kinds of food
\nsuited to the highest best education of a spirit. But when he traveleth with his
\ncompanions of his own heavenly group, then the asaphs of the group shall go along
\nwith him and them. And, during the two years, he shall be provided from the stores in
\nheaven with food and clothes, and he shall not labor to provide himself with anything.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. The twelfth Divan law was in reference to the same spirit, which was: At the end
\nof two years the asaphs shall deliver him, and such of his group as are prepared, into
\nthe department of first instruction, and his name shall be entered in the library
\nof that department of heaven as E<\/span>NTERED APPRENTICE, IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION<\/span>. Here
\nhis first lessons shall be as to making clothes and providing food for himself and
\nothers. And he shall be entitled to participate, if he so desire, in the recreations of
\nthe entered apprentices, such as music, dancing, marching, painting, or other arts.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. The thirteenth Divan law was in reference to the same spirit, which was: Not less than
\ntwo years shall he serve as entered apprentice, and longer if his proficiency be not
\nsufficient for advancement. But when he is advanced, he shall no longer be called entered
\napprentice, but a C<\/span>RAFTSMAN<\/span>. <\/span>And he shall be taken to a place suitable, where his labor
\nwill contribute to the heavenly kingdoms. And his recreations shall entitle him to
\ninstruction in both corporeal and es’sean knowledge, and their correspondence. As a
\ncraftsman he shall serve seven years.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. The fourteenth Divan law was in reference to the same spirit, which was: The
\ncraftsman\u2019s examination being completed, he shall then return to labor in the nurseries in
\nheaven, becoming assistant to the asaphs. And during this period he shall report himself
\nat the roll call. And his teachers shall take him with them down to mortals and teach
\nhim how to see and hear corporeal things. And they shall also explain to him fetalism
\nand the obsession of mortals by drujas, that he may understand the cause of lying,
\nand of stealing, and of tattling, and of conspiracies, and of murders amongst mortals.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

20. The fifteenth Divan law was of the same spirit, which was: After he hath served three
\nyears as nurse-assistant to the asaphs, he shall be promoted to the hospitals in heaven, as
\nassistant to the physicians. And they shall teach him the restoration of spirits in chaos,
\nand crazy spirits, and deformed spirits, and of sick spirits, and of spirits afflicted with foul
\nsmells, that cannot clean themselves, especially of the spirits of women who produced
\nabortion on themselves, or suffered it to be done unto them, and of monomaniacs, and all
\nmanner of diseased spirits. And the physicians shall take him with them when they go
\ndown to mortals to remove fetals, and he shall learn how they are severed, safely to both.
\nAnd they shall take him to the battle-fields, where mortals slay one another, whose spirits
\nare in chaos, or are still fighting, and he shall assist in bringing them away from the
\ncorporeal place, and also learn how to restore them, and where to deliver them when
\nrestored. And if there be knots in any region near at hand, the physician shall take him to
\nthe knot, and show him how they are untied, and how they are mastered and delivered.
\nAnd if there be any hell near at hand, the physicians shall take him thither and teach him<\/span>
\nhow hell is delivered and its people restored. For ten years shall he serve as assistant to
\nthe physicians.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

21. The sixteenth Divan law was of the same spirit, which was: Having fulfilled the part
\nof assistant physician, he shall be promoted to the full rank of N<\/span>URSE<\/span>. <\/span>And in that
\ndepartment he shall serve ten years, which completeth his emancipation in that order, and
\nthereafter any and all the nurseries of the lower heavens shall be free and open to him,
\nand he shall go to whatsoever one he desireth, save when specially commanded for a
\ncertain work by his Lord, or by the God of his division.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

22, The seventeenth Divan law was of the same spirit, which was: Having passed a
\nsatisfactory examination by his Lord, or his Lord’s attendants, he shall be promoted to the
\nfull rank of P<\/span>HYSICIAN<\/span>. And in that department in heaven he shall serve fifty years. And
\nthen his emancipation in that order shall be complete. And all the hospitals in the
\nlower heavens shall be open to him, and he shall choose whichever of them he desireth as
\nhis place of labor, unless specially required by his Lord, or by the God of his division.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

23. The eighteenth Divan law was of the same spirit, which was: He shall now pass an
\nexamination by his Lord or his Lord’s deputy, and if he prove himself in a knowledge of
\nthe structure of both the corporeal and spiritual man, he shall be registered as E<\/span>NTERED
\n<\/span>F<\/span>ACTOR<\/span>, and he shall serve twelve years in forming and making fabrics for raiment, and
\nfor other useful and ornamental purposes.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

24. The nineteenth Divan law was like unto the eighteenth, save that his labor shall be
\ngathering and transporting food for other twelve years. And the twentieth Divan law was
\nlike unto the nineteenth, save that his labor shall be the wielding of large bodies, and of
\ncarrying the same long distances.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

25. The twenty-first Divan law of the same spirit, was: He shall now enter the C<\/span>REATIF <\/span>as
\nan apprentice. Thirty years shall he serve in the C<\/span>REATIF<\/span>, <\/span>learning how to create. And the
\ntwenty-second Divan law was like unto the twenty-first, save that he shall dwell in Uz
\nand serve twelve years in learning Uz.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

26. The twenty-third Divan law of the same spirit was: He shall now enter college, and
\nserve according to his talents, from five to forty years, learning measuring, and distances,
\nrotations, velocities, magnets, corporeal and es’sean; currents of vortices; roadways in
\nvortices, and how to measure vortices by their spiral force; how to find the center and the
\nperiphery of vortices. And if he serve the full term of forty years, he shall have the
\nfreedom of the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second and twentythird commandments; and all such places shall be forever open for him. And if he choose
\nto go into any of them he shall do so, unless especially ordered to some other emergent
\nplace by his Lord, or the God of his division.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

27. The twenty-fourth Divan law of the same spirit was: He shall now enter architecture
\nas an apprentice, and learn the building of heavenly mansions and cities; and he shall
\nserve eight years, and be promoted to build judgment seats and thrones, and serve sixteen
\nyears more.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

28. The twenty-fifth Divan law of the same spirit was: He shall now be eligible to
\nthe S<\/span>CHOOL OF <\/span>L<\/span>IGHT AND <\/span>D<\/span>ARKNESS<\/span>, and learn the relative power of attraction and
\npropulsion belonging to them; and his education here shall embrace practice and
\nexperiment; and he shall serve seventy years for the full course. After which, if he be
\nproficient in creating light and darkness, he shall be emancipated from the twenty-fourth<\/span>
\nand twenty-fifth Divan laws, and all such places shall be open and free to him forever.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

29. The twenty-sixth Divan law of the same spirit was: He shall now serve twenty-four
\nyears in building and propelling heavenly boats, and small ships. And the twenty-sixth
\nDivan law was of like kind, which was: That he shall now travel fifty years in
\natmospherea, and on the earth, and on the oceans of the earth.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

30. This completeth the primary education in the first resurrection<\/span><\/p>\n

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

1. God said: For the spirit of a Zarathustrian who hath completed his primary education,
\nwhat then? On which all the members spake. After that Div decreed:
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2. He shall serve two hundred years as an apprenticed loo’is. He shall become proficient
\nin the knowledge of procreation of mortals. Learning to prophesy what the off-spring will
\nbe, according to the parentage; to become wise in discerning how the es of a living mortal
\ngoverneth the flesh, to good or evil; how the es of a mortal controlleth the sex and
\nultimate size and health and strength of the offspring.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

3. To learn which, the loo’is shall take him to thousands of mortals, and he shall make a
\nrecord of what he hath under observation; and when such mortals have offspring born
\nunto them, he shall make a record thereof; and he shall observe the character of the birth,
\nand the foundation of the child, together with what conditions surrounded the mother of
\nthe child. And he shall follow that child till it hath grown up, and also married, and
\nbegotten a child, or children, and so on to the sixth generation. This is the twenty-eighth
\nDivan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Div decreed: After he hath served two hundred years he shall be examined by his Lord,
\nor his Lord’s deputy, and if proficient in prophesying to the sixth generation, he shall be
\nentered as an ashar on a list of four twelves for every moon’s change. But the forty-eight
\nashars shall not be ashars to more than one hundred and ninety-two mortals, unless
\notherwise specially allotted by the Lord or God in dominion.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

5. For four generations, of one hundred and thirty-three years, shall he serve as an ashar.
\nAnd he shall learn to have dominion over his mortal prot\u00e9g\u00e9s night and day, not
\nsuffering them, however, to know his presence. To accomplish which, he shall begin with
\nhis prot\u00e9g\u00e9s in their first infancy; remaining with them whilst they sleep, talking to the
\nspirit of the mortal, teaching and persuading. This was the twenty-ninth Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Div decreed: Having served as ashar, the full term of ashar, he shall be entitled to
\nexamination by his Lord or deputy. But herein beginneth a new examination; which is,
\nthat the examination pertaineth to his prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, as to what kind of fruit he hath sent to
\nheaven, the grade of his es’yans being the standard. This was the thirtieth Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Div decreed: Having passed the examination as ashar, he shall now be promoted
\nas asaph, where he shall serve sixty-six years. Here again his examination shall be
\nnot of himself but of the harvest of his department. This was the thirty-first Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Div decreed: His examination being complete, he shall now receive emancipation for
\nall preceding departments and decrees; and he shall have his choice in all places he hath
\npassed, unless otherwise specially detailed by his Lord or God of his division. This was
\nthe thirty-second Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

9. Div decreed: He shall now be entitled to enter the C<\/span>HAPTER OF THE <\/span>P<\/span>RIMARY <\/span>S<\/span>OUL<\/span>. His<\/span>
\nfirst lessons shall be in colors and sounds both of corpor and es. First, beginning with
\ngray of not more than three combinations; and when he hath mastered these, he shall have
\nfour, then five, then ten, then a hundred, and so on, until, when any combination of colors
\nis placed before him, he can instantly perceive every color, shade, tint, and the velocity of
\nlight, and its force (actinic) emanating. And he shall pursue this study until he can create
\nin es the counterpart of anything in corpor, or create in corpor the counterpart of anything
\nin es. And of sounds he shall proceed in the same way; first, learning a combination of
\nthree, so that when his teacher produceth any three sounds together, he can hear them and
\ndetermine the exact velocity of wave. Then he shall begin with four sounds (notes), then
\nfive, then ten, then a hundred, and even a thousand, the which, even though made in the
\nsame instant, he shall detect every one, and the velocity and force of each. This was the
\nthirty-third Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Div decreed: He shall now begin the practice of combining and creating color by
\nsounds, and sounds by colors, both in corpor and es. His teachers shall make explosions
\nwith light, and explosions without light, and by his eye and ear only shall he be able to
\ndetermine with what elements the explosions were made. This was the thirty-fourth
\nDivan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Div decreed: He shall go far away from the explosions, and when the waves come
\nto him, even though he heareth not the explosion, he shall be able to determine, by
\nthe waves, of what substance the explosion was made, and whether in light or darkness.
\nAnd, if in light, what colors were manifested. This was the thirty-fifth Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Div decreed: He shall now receive instruction in the sounds of conversation. First, his
\nteacher shall cause him to hear two people conversing at the same time, missing nothing
\nthat is said; then three, then four, then five, then ten, then a hundred, and then a
\nthousand, but no greater number in this department. This was the thirty-sixth Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

13. Div decreed: He shall now analyze the waves of voice, wherein he cannot hear the
\nsounds thereof. His teacher shall station him in a certain place and cause him to read the
\nwaves of light and sound that come to him, so that he knoweth not only the words
\nspoken, but the kind of person speaking or singing. This was the thirty-seventh Divan
\nlaw.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Div decreed: His teacher shall now cause him to read the waves of light and sound
\nemanating from two persons talking at the same time, whom he cannot hear, and he shall
\nunderstand not only the words spoken, but the kind of persons speaking. Then, he shall
\nread the waves in the same way for three persons, then four, then eight, then a hundred,
\nand even a thousand. This was the thirty-eighth Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

15. Div decreed: Then he shall be taken to a distance from a battle-field, where mortals
\nare in deadly conflict, but he shall not be sufficiently near to hear the sounds; but when
\nthe waves come to him, he shall read them and know the number of the men in battle, the
\nkind of weapons in use, and the cause of contention. This was the thirty-ninth Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

16. Div decreed: He shall now be promoted to be a messenger between Lords, and
\nbetween Lords and Gods. This was the fortieth Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

17. Div decreed: For one hundred years he shall serve as M<\/span>ESSENGER<\/span>, and at the end of
\nthat time his Lords and Gods shall render his record, and promote him to be marshal. And
\nhereupon the emancipation of all the preceding decrees and departments shall be open to
\nhim, to choose whatsoever he will, save on such time and occasion as specially required<\/span>
\nby his Lord or God. This was the forty-first Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

18. Div decreed: For two hundred years he shall serve as marshal, and under as many as
\nforty Lords and Gods, and in as many as twenty heavenly kingdoms. This was the fortysecond Divan law.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

19. Div decreed: He shall now be promoted Lord, and have dominion over a city or nation
\nof mortals, and over the spirits belonging to that city or nation. This was the forty-third
\nDivan law.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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