The Light of Kosmon (1939 Anderson edition)

THE LIGHT o/KOSMON Being seven books, containing essential spiritual wisdom from OAHSPE  Copyright, 1939 By W ing A nderson PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY BERW ICK AND SMITH COMPANY NORWOOD MASS.  OAHSPE The complete Kosmon Revelations, of which this book forms about one-eighth, is contained in 891 pages, consisting of thirty-six books with ninety-five illustrations. It is printed in two sizes; The American Edition has pages and type uniform with this book and was printed from the original Newbrough plates of the 1891 edition. The English Edition is a book five by seven inches, printed in small, six point type. OAHSPE contains a complete account of the creation of this earth, and of the universe; an account of the creation and history of man ; a new explanation of natural forces, including light, heat, sound, magnetism, electricity and gravity; an explanation of the cyclic system used by the ancients in their prophecies; an account of the sub mersion of the Continent of Pan (Mu) in the Pacific Ocean; also, the record of the great pyramid and its builders; and the keys to the ancient rites and ceremonies of initiation. First given to mortals in the thirty-third, year of the Kosmon Era (1881). American Edition, 85.00. English Edition, $3.50. The Light of Kosmon, $1.00. The Light of Kosmon, Linen Binding, $1.50. Published by KOSMON INDUSTRIES Publishing -Manufacturing -Importing 2210 W est Eleventh Street Los Angeles California .  OAHSPE A FTER the creation of man, the Creator, 11. And the Beast divided itself into four Jehovih, said unto him : That thou great heads, and possessed the earth about; shait know thou art the work of My hand, I and man fell down and worshipped them. have given thee capacity for knowledge, power, 12. And the names of the heads of the Beast and dominion. This was the first era. were, B r a h m in , B u d d h is t , C h r is t ia n , and 2. But man was helpless, he understood not M o h a m m e d a n . And they divided the earth, the voice of the Almighty, neither stood he and apportioned it between themselves, choos upright. And Jehovih called His angels, who ing soldiers and standing armies for the main were older than the earth, and He said unto tenance of their earthly aggrandizement. them : Go ye, raise man upright, and teach 13. And the Brahmins had seven million him to understand. soldiers; the Buddhists twenty m illion; the 3; And the angels of heaven descended to Christians seven million; and the Mohamme the earth and raised man upright. And man dans two million, whose trade was killing man. wandered about on the earth. This was the And man, in service of the Beast, gave one- second era. sixth of his life and his labor to war and stand 4. Jehovih said to the angels that were with ing armies; and one-third of his life he gave m an: Behold, man hath multiplied on the to dissipation and drunkenness. This was the earth. Bring ye them together; teach them sixth era. to dwell in cities and nations. 14. Jehovih called to man to desist from 5. And the angels of Jehovih taught the e v il; but man heard Him not. For the cun peoples of the earth to dwell together in cities ning of the Beast had changed man's flesh, so and nations. This was the third era. that his soul was hid as if in a cloud, and he 6. And in that same time the Beast (self) loved sin. rose up before man, and spake to him, saying: 15. Jehovih called unto His angels in heaven, Possess thou whatsoever thou wilt, for all saying: Go ye down to the earth once more, things are thine, and are good for thee. to man, whom I created to inhabit the earth 7. And man obeyed the B east; and war and enjoy it, and say ye to mam: Thus saith came into the world. This was the fourth era. J ehovih : 8. And man was sick at heart, and he called 16. Behold, the seventh era is at hand. Thy out to the Beast, saying: Thou saidst: Possess Creator commandeth thy change from a car thyself of all things, for they are good for thee. nivorous man of contention, to an herbivorous Now, behold, war and death have encompassed man of peace. The four heads of the Beast me about on all sides. I pray thee, therefore, shall be put aw ay; and war shall be no more teach me peace ! on the earth. 9. But the Beast said: Think not I am come 17. Thy armies shall be disbanded. And, to send peace on the earth; I come not to send from this time forth, whosoever desireth not peace, but a sword. I come to set man at vari to war, thou shait not impress; for it is the ance against his father; and a daughter against commandment of thy Creator. her mother. Whatsoever thou findest to eat, 18. Neither shait thou have any God, nor be it fish or flesh, eat thou thereof, taking no Lord, nor Savior, but only thy Creator, Jeho thought of to-morrow. vih ! Him only shait thou worship hence 10. And man ate fish and flesh, becoming forth forever. I am sufficient unto Mine own carnivorous, and darkness came upon him, creations. neither yet heard he the voice of Jehovih, nor 19. And to as many as separate themselves believed in Him. This was the fifth era. from the dominion of the Beast, making these 2 OAHSPE. covenants unto Me, have I given the founda of Jehovih, His heavenly kingdoms; and have tion of My kingdom on earth. thus herein made known the plan of His de 20. And all such shall be My chosen: By lightful creations, for the resurrection of the their covenants and by their works shall they peoples of the earth. be known henceforth on the earth as Mine, 24. Not infallible is this Book, Oa h sp e ; but and shall be called F a it h is t s . to teach mortals h o w to a t t a in to h e a r th e 21. But to as many as will not make these C r e a t o r 's voice, and to see H is h e a v e n s, in covenants, have I given the numbers o f the full consciousness, whilst still living on the Beast, and they shall be called U z ia n s , sig earth; and to know of a truth the place and nifying destroyers. And these shall be hence condition awaiting them after death. forth the two kinds o f people on earth, 25. Neither are, nor were, the revelations F a it h is t s and U z ia n s . within this Oa h spe wholly new to mortals. 22. And the angels of heaven descended to The same things have been revealed at the the earth, to man, and appeared before him, same time unto many, who live at remote dis face to face, hundreds of thousands o f them, tances from one another, but who were not in speaking as man speaketh, and writing as man correspondence till afterward. writeth, teaching these things of Jehovih and 26. Because this light is thus comprehensive, His works. embracing corporeal and spiritual things, it is 23. And in the thirty-third year thereof, the called the beginning o f the K osmon E r a . And Embassadors o f the angel hosts of heaven, because it relates to earth, sky and spirit, it is prepared and revealed unto man in the name called Oa h spe . 2  THE VOICE OF MAN. O JEH OVIH , what am I that I should sup and clothed me in light. I behold the small plicate Thee ? Know I mine own weak ness of myself in Thy great works. Thou hast ness, or understand I the way of my thoughts ? bound me to travel on the earth, to sojourn Thou hast placed before me most wonderful with beasts and all manner of creeping things ; creations: They impress me, and my senses nor given me one attribute wherein I can boast rise up in remembrance of the Almighty. over them, save in the power of destruction. Wherein have I invented one thought but by The high firmament placed Thou above m e ; looking upon Thy works ? How can I other the stars and moon and su n ! I know Thou wise than remember my Creator, and out of hast been thither, but I am bound down in a Thy creations, 0 Jehovih, find rich food for little corner of Thy works ! I have not power meditation all the days of my life ? to rise up to Thy distant places, nor to know 2. And yet, though I have appropriated the Thy extended heavens. earth unto myself, I am not happy nor perfect 7. Hay, I have not power to shape my own withal. Misery and crime and selfishness are size and stature ; but all things take form and upon my people. dimension whether I will or no. In Thine own 3. What is my weakness that I cannot over way are built the walls of the w orld ; by their come it ? Or what is my strength that I magnitude am I confounded; by the majesty succumb to the desires o f the earth ? I build o f Thy hand appalled. W hy have I vainly up my belief and courage in T h ee; but ere I set up myself as the highest of Thy works ? know the way of my weakness, I stumble and My failures are worse than any other living fall. Am I made that I shall be forever a creature under the sun. I cannot build my reproof to myself, and a censure to my own house in perfection like a bird's ; my ingenuity behavior ? cannot fashion a spider's n et; I cannot sail up 4. How shall I say to this man or th a t: Bein the air like a bird, nor live in the water like thou pure and holy, 0 m an! Are not my flesh the fish, nor dwell in harmony like the bee. and blood proof that man cannot be without The half of my offspring die in in fa n cy; the sin ? 0 this corruptible self, this tendency to multitude of my household are quarrellers, fall from the right way ! Thou, 0 my Creator, fighters, drunkards and beggars; the best of hast proven before my senses, every day of my my sons and daughters are less faithful than a life, that Thou alone art mighty in purity and dog! I go forth to war, to slay my brother, truth. even whilst Thy wide earth hath room for all. 5. 0 that I had a starting point wherefrom Yea, I aecurse the earth with starvation and sin to estimate Thy wonderful decrees, or could and untimely death. 0 that I could school my find a road in which I should never stumble ! self to boast not o f my greatness ; that I should But yet, 0 Jehovih, I will not complain be be forever ashamed in Thy sight, Jehovih ! cause o f the way of Thy works. Thou hast 8. Unto Thee I will acknowledge my iniqui invented a limit to my understanding, whereby ties ; I can hide nothing from the eye of my I am reminded o f Thee, to call upon Thy name. Creator. Hear me then, 0 Father ! I perceive my own van ity; that whereas were 9. I took up arms against my brother. knowledge mine, I should become less behold W ith great armies I encompassed him about ing unto T h ee! to despoil him. 6. What am I, 0 Jehovih, without T h ee; or 10. His widows and orphans I multiplied by wherein shall I find the glory of Thy creations the stroke of my sword; the cry of anguish but by the light o f Thy countenance ? Thou that came out of their mouths I answered by broughtest m e-forth out o f sin and darkness the destruction of my brother' s harvests. 2 OAHSPE. 11. To my captains and generals who showed and ships of war, and torpedoes, shouting: great skill in killing, I built monuments in Hurrah for our kingdom ! W e have faith in stone and iron. Yea, I inscribed them from these things, more than in Thee, our Creator! top to bottom with their bloody victories. 25. Thus I led them away from Thee. 12. And in my vanity I called out to the Their eyes I turned down in the way of death. young, saying: Behold the glory of great men! By the might of my armies, I put away These great monuments I have builded to righteousness. them ! 26. 1 covered the earth over with drunk 13. And the youth of my household were ards, and widows and orphans; to beggary I whetted with ambition for spoil. The example reduced them, but 1 whetted their pride by of my hand made them train themselves for saying: Behold what great standing armies we warfare. have! 14. To my colonels and generals I gave 27. To the man that said : There shall come badges of gold. I called to the damsels, say a time o f peace, when war shall be no more ing : Come, a great honor 1 give to y o u ; ye forever, I mocked and said : Thou f o o l ! shall dance with the officers of death ! 28. I know the counts against me, 0 Father. 15. And they tripped up on tip-toe, elated 1 cannot hide my iniquity from Thy sight. 1 by the honey of my w ords! 0 Jehovih, how have said war was a necessary evil to prevent have I not covered up my wickedness; how a too populous w o rld ! I turned my back have I failed to make the flow of my brother's toward the wide, unsettled regions of the blood the relish of satan ! earth. With this falsehood in my mouth I stood up before Thee ! Yea, I cried out as if 16. To my destroying hosts I have given for the righteous, saying: I war for righteous great honor and glory. In the pretence of ness, and for the protection of the w eak! In enforcing peace I hewed my way in flesh and the destruction of my brethren I stood as a blood. murderer, pleading this excuse. Stubbornly I persisted in not seeing justice on the other 17. I made great pretensions in a kingdom. side, whilst I out down whom Thou hadst I called out to my people, saying : W e must created alive. Above the works of Thy hand have a kingdom. I showed them no reason for I raised myself up as a pruning knife in Thy i t ; but I bade them take up arms and follow vineyard. me for patriotism's sake. And yet what was patriotism ? Behold, I made it as a something 29. Yea, more than this, I persuaded my greater than Thee and Thy commandment: sons and (laughters that to war for me was to war for our Father in heaven. B y such blas T hou shalt not k il l . phemy led I them into ruin. And when the 18. Yea, by the cunning of my words, I battle was over for a day I cried o u t: Behold the glory of them that were slain for the honor taught them my brother was my enem y; that o f their country! Thus have I added crime to fall upon him and his people and destroy to crime before Thee, Jehovih; thus destroyed them was great patriotism. Thy beautiful creation. Verily, have I not one word in justification of my deeds before Thee ! 19. And they ran at the sound of my voice, for my glory in the greatness o f my kingdom, 30. 0 that I had remained faithful with and they committed great havoc. Thee, J ehovih ! But I invented gods unto the glory of the evil one. In one place I called 20. Yea, I built colleges for training my out to my sons and daughters, saying: Be ye young men in warfare. I drew a boundary Brahmins ; Brahma saveth whosoever profess- hither and thither, saying: This is my king eth his name. In another place I said: Be ye dom ! A ll others are my enemies ! Buddhists; Buddha saveth whosoever calleth on his name. In another place I said: Be ye 21. I flattered the young men with the work Christians; Christ saveth whosoever calleth of death; I said: Y e men of war! Great shall on his name. In another place I said: Be ye be your glory ! Mohammedans ; whosoever saith: There is but one God and Mohammed is his prophet! 22. And their judgment was turned away shall have indulgence without sin. from peace; I made them think that righteous ness was to stand up for me and my country, 31. Thus have I divided the earth, 0 Jeho and to destroy my brother and his people. vih ! Into four great idolatries have I founded 23. They built me forts and castles and arse nals without number. I called unto my peo ple, sayin g: Come, behold the glory of my defences which I built for y o u ! 24. And they gave me money and garrisons, T H E V O I C E OE MAN. 3 them, and into their hands put all manner of crieth out in pain; but capital smiteth him weapons of destruction; and they are become with a heartless blow. more terrible against one another than are the beasts of the forest. 0 that 1 could put away 36. Nation is against nation; king against these great iniquities which I raised up as k in g ; merchant against merchant; consumer everlasting torments to the earth. Verily, against producer; yea, man against man, in there is no salvation in any of these. all things upon the earth. 32. Their people are forever destroying one 37. Because the state is rotten, the politi another. They quarrel and kill for their re cian feedeth thereon; because society is rot spective religions; setting aside Thy com ten, the lawyer and court have riches and mandment, Thou shalt not kill. They love sumptuous feasts; because the flesh of my peo their own nation and hate all others. They ple is rotten, the physician findeth a harvest set aside Thy commandment, Love thy neigh of comfort. bor as thyself. 38. Now, 0 Jehovih, I come to Thee ! Thou 33. They preach and pray in sufficient truth; holdest the secret of peace and harmony and but not one of these people practiseth peace, good will amongst mortals. Give me o f Thy love and virtue, in any degree commensurate light, 0 Father! Show me the way of pro with their understanding. These religions have ceeding, that war and crime and poverty may not saved from sin any nation or city on the come to an end. Open Thou the way of peace whole earth. and love and virtue and truth, that Thy chil dren may rejoice in their lives, and glorify 34. In vain have I searched for a plan of Thee and Thy works forever. redemption; a plan that would make the earth a paradise, and the life of man a glory unto 39. Such is the voice o f man, 0 Jehovih! Thee, and a joy unto himself. But alas, the In all the nations of the earth this voice riseth two extremes, riches and poverty, have made up to Thee ! As Thou spakest to Zarathustra, the prospect of a millennium a thing o f mock and to Abraham.and Moses, leading them forth ery. out of darkness, 0 speak Thou, J eh ovih ! 35. For one man that is rich there are a 40. Man hath faith in Thee only ; Thou alone thousand poor, and their interests are an in wast sufficient in the olden time : To-day, Thou terminable conflict with one another. Labor alone art sufficient unto Thine own creation. Speak Thou, 0 J ehovih !  BOOK OF JEHOVIH. WHEREIN IS REVEALED THE THREE GREAT WORLDS, CORPOR, ATMOSPHEREA, AND ETHEREA. AS IN ALL OTHER BIBLES IT IS REVEALED THAT THIS WORLD WAS CREATED, SO IN THIS BIBLE IT IS REVEALED HOW THE CREATOR CREATED IT. AS OTHER BIBLES HAVE PROCLAIMED HEAVENS FOR THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, BEHOLD, THIS BIBLE REVEALETII WHERE THESE HEAVENS ARE, AND THE MAN NER AND GLORY AND WORK THAT THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD ENJOY, WHEREBY THE WISDOM, POWER, LOVE AND GLORY OF THE ALMIGHTY ARE MAGNIFIED FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF MAN. & W & dhM �IMt4 i �Apology: " The universe is full; all things are members. Speech they have: bid them speak. The recorder of their words be thou. Such is Panic (Earth) language, the first language. What saith the bird ? The beast ? The stars ? The sun? A ll? It is their souls speaking. The soul hear thou, and repeat it. This light leadeth thee to origin." ] CH A PTE R I. A L L was. A ll is. A ll ever shall be. The 6. W ith these two entities, in likeness there A ll spake, and Motion was, and is, and by of Myself, made I all the liv in g ; for as the ever shall be; and, being positive, was called life is the potent part, so is the corporeal part He and Him. The A ll M otion was His speech. the impotent part. 2. He said, I A m ! And He comprehended 7. Chief over all that live on the earth I all things, the seen and the unseen. Nor is made M a n ; male and female made I them. there aught in all the universe but what is And that man might distinguish Me, I com part of Him. manded him to give Me a name; by virtue of 3. He said, I am the soul of a ll; and the all M y presence commanded I him. And man that is seen is of My person and My body. named Me not after anything in heaven or on 4. B y v irtu e o f My presen ce all th in gs are. the earth. In obedience to My will named he By v irtu e o f My presence is life. By virtue o f My Me after the sounds the wind uttereth, and he presen ce are the liv in g b ro u g h t fo r th in to life . said, E-- 0 -- Ih ! W hich is now pronounced I am th e Q u ic k e n e r , th e M o v e r , th e C r e a t o r , Jehovih, and is written th u s: the D estroyer. I am F irst and L ast. 5. Of two apparent entities am I, never theless I a m but On e . These entities are the U nseen, which is P oten t, and the S een , which is of itself I m po ten t, and called C o r p o r . 6  BOOK OF JEH OVIH . 2 CHAPTER II. 8. Atmospherean worlds I also created in the firmament, and I gave them places and JE H O VIH said : By virtue of my presence orbits and courses for themselves. But atmos created I the seen and the unseen worlds. pherean worlds I created shapeless and void And I commanded man to name th em ; and of fixed form, for they are in process of con man named the seen worlds Corpor, and the densation or dissolution, being intermediate in unseen worlds E s ; and the inhabitants of Cor condition betwixt My etherean and My cor por, man named corporeans. But the inhabi poreal worlds. Of three degrees o f density tants of Es he called sometimes es' eans and created I them, and I commanded man to sometimes spirits and sometimes angels. name them, and one he called A 'ji, and one 2. Jehovih said: I created the earth, and Ji' ay and one Nebulae. fashioned it, and placed it in the firmament; 9. But all o f them are composed of the same and by My presence brought man forth a living substances, being like the earth, but rarefied. being. A corporeal body gave I him that he Nor is there on the earth or in it one thing, might learn corporeal things; and death I even iron, or lead, or gold, or water, or oil, or made that he might rise in the firmament and stones, but the same things are in My atmos inherit M y etherean worlds. pherean worlds. As I have given light to the 3. To es I gave dominion over corpor; with earth so have I given light to many of them ; es I filled all place in the firmament. But and all such have I commanded man to call corpor I made into earths and moons and stars comets. And even so named he them. and suns; beyond number made I them, and I 10. And I also created atmospherea around caused them to float in the places I allotted to about My corporeal w orlds; together made I them. them. 4. Es I divided into two parts, and I com manded man to name them, and he named one CHAPTER III. etherea and the other atmospherea. These T are the three kinds of worlds I created; but H US spake Jehovih; by the light of kos- mon proclaimed He these things amongst I gave different densities to atmospherean worlds, and different densities to the etherean the nations of the earth. worlds. 2. Man looked upward in prayer, desiring 5. For the substance of M y etherean worlds to know the manner of all created things, both I created Ethe, the M ost R a r e f ie d . Out of on earth and in heaven. And Jehovih an ethe made I them. And I made ethe the most swered him, saying: subtle of all created things, and gave to it 3. The whirlwind made I as a sign to man power and place, not only by itself, but also of the manner o f My created worlds. As thou power to penetrate and exist within all things, beholdest the power of the whirlwind gathering even in the midst of the corporeal worlds. up the dust of the earth and driving it together, And to ethe gave I dominion over both atmos know that even so do I bring together the a'ji pherea and corpor. and ji'ay and nebulae in the firmament of 6. In the A ll H ighest places created I the heaven; by the power of the whirlwind create etherean worlds, and I fashioned them o f all I the corporeal suns and moons and stars. shapes and sizes, similar to M y corporeal And I commanded man to name the whirlwinds worlds. But I made the etherean worlds in the etherean firmament, and he named inhabitable both within and without, with them vortices and wark; according to their entrances and exits, in arches and curves, shape named he them. thousands of miles high and wide, and over 4. By the power of rotation, swift driving ruled I them with P e rfe c t mechanism; and forth in the extreme parts, condense I the at in colors and movable chasms and mountains in mospherean worlds that float in the firma endless change and brilliancy. To them I gave ment ; and these become M y corporeal worlds. motions, and orbits and courses of their own; In the midst o f the vortices made I them, and independent made I them, and above all other by the power of the vortices I turn them on worlds in potency and majesty. their axes, and carry them in the orbits I 7. Neither created I one etherean world like allotted to them. W ider than to the moons of another in size or density or in component a planet have I created the vortices, and they parts, but every one differing from another, carry the moons also. and with a glory matchless each in its way. 5. Around about some of My corporeal 7 3 OAHSPE. worlds have I given nebulous belts and rings, as nothing in the firmament of heaven in that man might comprehend the rotation of course of time. My vortexan worlds. 6. Things that man seeth, created I with a 6. Eor each and every corporeal world beginning and an en d ; but the unseen I made created I a vortex first, and by its rotation of endless duration. and by the places in the firmament whither it 7. The corporeal man made I belonging to traveleth, caused I the vortex to conceive the the seen; but the spiritual man made I as one corporeal world. within the unseen, and everlasting. 7. A great vortex created I for the sun, 8. As the corporeal man beholdeth corpo and, within this vortex and subject to it, made real things, so doth the spiritual man follow I the vortices o f many of the corporeal worlds. upward the evaporated, corporeal entities of The sun vortex I caused to rotate, and I gave things. As corporeal things are tangible to it power to carry other vortices within it. corporeans, so are es things tangible to the According to their density and position are spirits of the dead. they thus carried forth and around about the 9. As I cause water to rise upward as vapor, sun. and take a place in the air above, let it be a 8. Think not, 0 man, that I created the sky sign and testimony o f other places in atmos- a barren waste, and void o f use. Even as pherea wrhereon dwell the spirits of the lower man in the corporeal form is adapted to the heaven. corporeal earth, so is he in the spiritual form 10. As I made a limit to the ascent of the adapted to My etherean worlds. Three great clouds, so made I a limit to the places of the estates have I bestowed on man : the corpo different kinds of substances in atmospherea; real, the atmospherean and the etherean. the more subtle and potent to the extreme, and. the more dense and impotent nearer to the earth. CHAPTER IV. 11. According to the condition of these dif ferent plateaux in atmospherea, whether they M AH perceived the general foundation of be near the earth or high above, so shall the the world, and he prayed that his eyes spirit of man take its place in the first heaven; might be opened for a sign in heaven; and according to his diet and desires and behavior Jehovih answered him, saying: so shall he dwell in spirit on the plateau to 2. The clouds in the air I bring into view which he hath adapted himself during his suddenly; by different currents o f wind make earth life. I thus th e ' unseen visible and tangible to 12. For I made the power of attraction man man's senses. In like manner do I cause ifest in all things before man's eyes that he etherean currents to bring forth a'ji and ji'ay, might not err, that like should attract like and nebulae, prior to making corporeal worlds. made I them. 3. In all the universe have I made the un 13. Man sought to know the progress of seen to rule over the seen. Let the formation things. Jehovih answered him, saying: of the clouds stand in the view of man on 14. Open thine eyes, 0 man ! There is a earth, that he may bear witness to the manner time of childhood, a time of genesis, a time of the unseen becoming seen. of old age, and a time of death to all men. 4. Man perceived, and he prayed for a sign Even so is it with all the corporeal worlds I o f duration, and Jehovih answered him, have created. saying: lo . First as vapor the vortex carrieth it 5. Behold the tree which hath sprung upforth, and as it condenseth, its friction engen- out of the ground and fulfilled its tim e; it dereth heat, and it is molten, becoming as a falleth and rotteth, and returneth to the earth. globe of fire in heaven. Then it taketh its But lo, the wind, which thou seest not, never place as a new born world, and I set it in the ceaseth to blow. Even so is the comparative orbit prepared for it. duration of all things. Think not, 0 man, 16. In the next age I bring it into se'mu, that corporeal things are annihilated because for it is ripe for the bringing forth of living they disappear; for as a drop of water evap- creatures; and I bestow the vegetable and orateth and riseth in the air as unseen vapor, animal kingdoms. so do all corporeal things, even earth, and 17. Next it entereth ho'tu, for it is past the stones, and gold, and silver, and lead, become age of begetting, even as the living who are  B O O K OF J E H O V I H . 4 in dotage. Next it entereth a'du, and nothing green scum of water to be permanently coming can generate upon it. Then cometh uz, and it forth in all ages, that man might understand is spirited away into unseen realms. Thus the age of se'mu, when the earth and the create I, and thus dissipate planets, suns, shores by the water, and the waters also, were moons and stars. covered over with commingled atmosphere and 18. M y examples are before all men. My corporeal substance. And this substance was witnesses are without number. I raise the tree called se'mu, because by Jehovih' s presence up out of the ground; 1 give it a time to bring quickened He it into life, and thus made He forth fru it; and then barrenness, and then all the living, both the vegetable and animal death and dissolution. I prepare the new field worlds. Not that se'mu is jelly-fish or the with rich soil, bringing forth ; and the old field green scum of w ater; for the earth in this day that is exhausted, and man shall weigh the produceth not se'mu abundantly ; nevertheless progress and destiny of a whole world. the jelly-fish and the green scum of water are signs of that which was in that day of the 19. Let no man marvel because of the size earth. || of the mammoth and the ichthyosaurus, for there was a time for them as there is a time 5. Jehovih said: Because of My presence for the infusoria of this day. quickened I into life all that live, or ever have lived. 20. I have given thee a sign, 0 man, in the queen of the honey b e e ; because of the change 6. Because I am male and female, even in of the cell cometh she forth a queen, even from My likeness, thus made I them. Because I the same manner of germ as the other bees. am the power to quicken into life, so, in like Be wise, therefore, and remember that the earth ness of Me thus, made I them, and with power is not in the place of the firmament as of old. to bring forth. Let this be a testimony to thee of the growth, 7. According to their respective places the change and the travail of the earth. created I the liv in g ; not in pairs only, but 21. Nevertheless, 0 man, the seen and the in hundreds of pairs and thousands, and in unseen are but parts of My person; I am the millions. Unity of the whole. 8. According to their respective places and the light upon se'mu, so quickened I them in CHAPTER Y. their color, adapted to their dwelling places. 9. Each and every living thing created I M AN perceived the magnitude and glory new upon the earth, of a kind each to itself; of the corporeal worlds. He said, How and not one living thing created I out of shall I speak o f Thy great works, 0 Jehovih, another. 10. Let a sign be upon the earth, that man and of Thy wisdom and pow er! Shall I open in his darkness may not believe that one ani my mouth before Thee! I look upon Thy mal changeth and becometh another. countless stars, suns and moons, spread out 11. |Thereupon Jehovih gave permission over the heavens! The millions of years Thou for different animals to bring forth a new liv hast driven them on in the never-ending firma ing animal, which should be unlike either its ment ! Processions in and out, and round mother or father, but he caused the new about, of mighty worlds ! By Thy breath going product to be barren. || forth ! 12. Jehovih said: And this shall be testi 2. 0 Thou, A ll H ighest! How shall I hidemony before all men that I created each and my insignificance! I cannot create the small all the living, after their own kind only. est thing alive ! Nay, nor change the color of 13. Such is My person and My spirit, being a hair on my head. What am I, that Thou from everlasting to everlasting; and when I hast seen me ? bring a new world into the time of se'mu, lo 3. Tell me, 0 my Creator, whence came life ?and behold My presence quickeneth the sub This unseen within me that is conscious of stance into lif e ; according to the locality and being ? Tell me how all the living came into the surroundings, so do I bring forth the dif life. ferent species; for they are flesh of My flesh 4. Jehovih heard the words of man, and Heand spirit of My spirit. To themselves give I answered him, saying: Let a sign be given to themselves; nevertheless, they are all members man that he may comprehend se'mu. ||There of My Person. upon Jehovih caused the jelly-fish and the 14. As a testimony to man, behold the earth 9 5 OAHSPE. was once a globe of liquid fire ! Nor was there carried forth, not by random, but purposely, in any seed thereon. But in due season I rained the regions suited to it. Hence there is a time' down se'mu on the earth; and by virtue o f My for se'mu, a time for falling nebulae, to bury presence quickened I into life all the living. deep the forests and se'muan beds, to provide Without seed created I the life that is in coal and manure for a time thereafter. So is them. there a time when the earth passeth a region in the firmament when sand and oil are rained CHAPTER VI. upon it and covered up, and gases bound and sealed up for the coming generations of men. H EN man comprehended the earth he looked upw ard; and Jehovih saw him 7. And man said: I am ashamed in Thy and knew the desires of his soul. So Jehovih sight, O Jehovih ! I looked upward and said, sent His son Uz, and Uz spake; saying: Behold the sky, it is nothing ! Then I said: 2. Hear me, 0 man; the mysteries of heaven It is true, the corporeal worlds are made of and earth will I clear up before thy judgment. condensed nebulae ; but I saw not the wisdom Thou art the highest, and comest to the chief- and glory of Thy works. I locked Thee up est o f all kingdoms; from Great Jehovih shalt in coincidences and happenings. Thy unseen thou learn wisdom, and none shall gainsay world hath become seen; the unreal hath thee. become the real. 3. Bethink thee, 0 man, of the magnitude of thy Father' s kingdoms and His places in 8. 0 that I had been mindful o f Thee ! 0 the firmament. Save I take thee into the that I had not put Thee afar, nor imagined heavens above, thou canst not comprehend the laws and decrees. Teach Thou me, 0 Jeho places thereof. vih ! How was the beginning o f man ? How 4. Man then rose up in spirit, and ascended was it with the first of the living that Thou into the firmament, for his spirit had crystal lized into separateness; and Uz and Es as broughtest forth ? cended with him, speaking in the voice of 9. Jehovih sa id : Have I not declared My the Father. And man beheld that each and everything in the firmament was orderly, and self in the past; in My works have I not pro still each to itself located. Then spake Es, saying: vided thousands o f years in advance ? As I 5. Behold, 0 m a n ! As a farmer soweth have shown system in the corporeal worlds, corn in one place, and wheat in another, and know thou, 0 man, that system prevaileth in roots in another, and flax -- everything in a the firmament. separate p la ce; even so doth Jehovih store the ingredients of which worlds are made -- 10. To the tree I gave l if e ; to man I gave everything in its place -- the substance of the life and spirit also. And the spirit I made iron in one place, the substance of the stones was separate from the corporeal life. in another, the substance of the vegetable kingdom in another, and even so of the sub 11. Out of se'mu I made man, and man was stance of the animal kingdom ; and the oils but as a tree, but dwelling in ha'k ; and I and sand; for He hath places in the firma called him Asu (Adam ). ment o f heaven for all of them. These that thou sawest are the a'ji and the ji'ay and the 12. I looked over the wide heavens that I had nebulae; and amidst them in places there is made, and I saw countless millions of spirits se'mu also. Let no man say: Yonder is of the dead, that had lived and died on other hydrogen only, and yonder oxygen only. The corporeal worlds before the earth was made. divisions of the substances of His creations are not as man would make them. A ll the 13. I spake in the firmament, and My voice elements are to be found not only in places reached to the uttermost places. And there near at hand, but in distant places also. came in answer to the sounds of My voice, 6. When the Father driveth forth His worlds myriads o f angels from the roadway in heaven, in the heavens, they gather a sufficiency o f all where the earth traveleth. I said to them, things. So also eometh it to pass that when B eh old! A new world have I created; come a corporeal world is yet new and young it is ye and enjoy it. Yea, ye shall learn from it how it was with other worlds in ages past. 14. There alighted upon the new earth mil lions of angels from heaven; but many of them had never fulfilled a corporeal life, having died in infancy, and these angels comprehended not procreation nor corporeal life. 15. And I said, go and deliver Asu from darkness, for he shall also rise in spirit to inherit My etherean worlds.  B O O K OF J E H O V I H . 6 16. And now was the earth in the latter 2. ||And Jehovih caused the earth, and the days of se'mu, and the angels could readily family of the sun to travel in an orbit, the cir take on corporeal bodies for themselves; out cuit of which requireth of them four million of the elements of the earth clothed they seven hundred thousand years. And he placed themselves, by force of their wills, with flesh in the line of the orbit, at distances of three and bones. By the side of the Asuans took thousand years, etherean lights, the which they on corporeal forms. places, as the earth passeth through, angels 17. And I said: Go ye forth and partake of from the second heaven come into its corporeal all that is on the earth; but partake ye not of presence. As embassadors they come, in com the tree of life, lest in that labor ye become panies of hundreds and thousands and tens of procreators and as if dead to the heavens thousands, and these are called the etherean whence ye came. hosts of the Most High. 18. ||But those who had never learned cor 3. Not as single individuals come they; not poreal things, being imperfect in wisdom, com for a single individual mortal come they. prehended not Jehovih's words, and they dwelt 4. And Jehovih gave this sign to man on with the Asuans, and were tempted, and par earth; which is to s a y ; In the beginning of took of the fruit of the tree of life ; and lo the light of dan'ha, the spirits of the newly and behold they saw their own nakedness. dead shall have power to take upon themselves And there was born of the first race (Asu) a the semblance of corporeal bodies, and appear new race called man; and Jehovih took the and talk face to face with mortals. Every earth out of the travail of se'mu, and the angels three thousand years gave Jehovih this sign gave up their corporeal bodies. || on earth, that those who learned the powers 19. Jehovih said: Because ye have raised up and capacities of such familiar spirits, might those that shall be joint heirs in heaven, ye bear testimony in regard to the origin of man shall tread the earth with your feet, and walk on earth. || by the sides o f the new born, being guardian Jehovih said: And when it shall come to angels over them, for they are o f your own pass in any of the times of dan'ha that these flesh and kin. signs are manifest, man shall know that the 20. Fruit of your seed have I quickened hosts of the Most High come soon after. Let with My spirit, and man shall come forth with him who will become wise, enumerate the great a birth-right to My etherean worlds. lights of My serpent, for in such times I set 21. As I have quickened the seed of the aside things that are old, and establish My first born, so will I quicken all seed to the end chosen anew. of the earth. And each and every man-child 5. ||In the time of the earth, when man was and woman-child born into life will I quicken brought forth from mortal to immortal life, with a new spirit, which shall proceed out of the earth passed beyond se'mu and the angels Me at the time of conception. Neither will I o f heaven remained with corporeal man, but give to any spirit of the higher or lower heaven not in the semblance of mortals, but as spirits; power to enter a womb, or a fetus of a womb, and by virtue of their presence, strove to make and be born again. man wise and upright before Jehovih. Upon 22. As the corporeal earth passeth away, so the earth the number of such angels was shall pass away the first race A su ; but as I millions. To these angels spake Jehovih, pass not away, so shall not pass away the saying: spirit of man. 6. Behold the work ye have taken in hand! It was commanded to you all, to partake of CHAPTER VII. all the fruits of the earth save of the fruit of the tree of life, which is o f the knowledge JE H O VIH said: Let a sign be given to the of the earth and heaven, lest ye lose your inhabitants of the earth that they may inheritance in etherea. comprehend dan'ha in the firmament of heaven. 7. Behold, ye now have sons and daughters For even as I bequeathed to the earth a time on the earth; by your love to them are ye for creating the living, and a time for angels become bound spirits o f the lower heaven. to come and partake of the first fruits of mor U ntil ye redeem them in wisdom and power tality and immortality, so shall man at certain even to the sixth generation ye shall not again times and seasons receive testimony from My arise and inherit My emancipated heavens. hosts in heaven. 8. To which end ye shall be co-workers with 11 7 OAHSPE. one another in system and order. In My 18. And all such as ascend shall be called name shall ye become an organic body and a Harvest unto Me through My God and known as the heaven of the earth, or lower Lords. And the time of My Harvests shall heaven, which shall travel with the earth. be according to each dan, which is two hundred years, four hundred years, six hundred years, 9. And I will allot unto you a Chief, who is and five hundred years; and these shall be wise in experience in founding heavenly king called My lesser cycles, because they are the doms ; and he shall appoint, from amongst you, times of the tables of prophecy which I give officers, and messengers, and ashars, and asaphs, unto M y servants. and es'enaurs, and ye shall be numbered and apportioned unto your labor and places like 19. But at no other times, nor in any other unto My other lower heavens on other worlds. way, shall My Harvests ascend to My emanci pated worlds in etherea. Seven dans have I 10. And he who is Chief shall be called G-od created for each and every clan'h a ; and six gen of this heaven and the earth, unto his making erations of mortals have I given unto each dan. bestow I them. 20. ]|The angels understood the command 11. And God shall have a Council and throne ments of Jehovih according to their knowledge within his heavenly c ity ; and the place shall in the etherean heavens ; being heirs of other be called Hored, because it is the first kingdom planets, and having died in infancy, and having of God in this firmament. matured in the es w orlds; but they under stood not the Creator according to the practice 12. And God shall rule on his throne, for it of the lower heavenly kingdoms. Wherefore is h is ; and his Council shall rule with h im ; in their knowledge was incomplete. || My name shall they have dominion over angels and mortals belonging to the earth. 21. Jehovih said : I condemn ye not because ye have become joint procreators with the 13. And God shall appoint Chiefs under him asuans; for ye have done two services unto who shall go down and dwell on the earth M e ; which are to teach yourselves corporeal with m ortals; and such Chiefs' labor shall things, that ye may understand and sympathize be with mortals for their resurrection. And with corporeans, and, secondly, because ye have these Chiefs shall be called Lords, for they caused the earth to become peopled with such are Gods of land, which is the lowest rank of as are capable of immortality. My commissioned Gods. 22. Behold ye now what shall happen on 14. And God and his Lords shall have do the earth: such as are of your flesh and kin minion from two hundred years to a thousand who cohabit together shall rise in wisdom and or more years; but never more than three virtu e; but such of them as cohabit with the thousand years. According to the regions of asuans will bring forth heirs in the descending dan (light) into which I bring the earth, so grade of life. The first shall bring forth heirs shall be the terms of the office of My Gods unto everlasting l if e ; but the second shall and M y Lords. bring forth heirs that shall go out in darkness. 15. And God and his Lords shall raise up 23. In the dominion of which matters your officers to be their successors; by him and God and Lords will instruct you, that ye may, them shall they be appointed and crowned in by inspiration and otherwise, learn to control My name. the behavior of mortals unto everlasting life. And that these labors be not too severe upon 16. A t the termination of the dominion of you, I created the dans and dan'has in the My God and his Lords they shall gather to firmament, wherein ye may be relieved from gether in these My bound heavens, all such the watch by other angels from other worlds angels as have been prepared in wisdom and coming to exchange with you. strength for resurrection to My etherean king doms. And these angels shall be called Brides 24. This also do I put upon you : That to and Bridegrooms to Jehovih, for they are rule over mortals to virtue, by your own wills Mine and in M y service. governing them in all things, is contrary to My commandments. For what honor hath any 17. And to God and his Lords, with the man if made to do a thing ? Brides and Bridegrooms, will I send down from etherea ships in the time o f dan; by My 25. But ye shall give mortals of My light, etherean Gods and Goddesses shall the ships leaving them to choose. Better it is for them descend to these heavens, and receive God and to suffer some than to grow up in ignorance of his Lords with the Brides and Bridegrooms, the stings of disobedience. and carry them up to the exalted regions I have prepared for them. B O O K OF J E H O V I H . 8 26. Behold, I make this a willing service on and emperors. As My Gods and My Lords are your part: because ye have bound your affec called M y Sons, so shall kings and emperors tions on the earth, to your own kin, ye willingly be called sons o f God ; through him shall they become guardian angels over mortals. Y et I be raised up to their places, and given domin made not a separate law unto you ; as it is ion unto My glory. with you, so shall it be with the spirits of these mortals when they are born into the es CHAPTER VIII. w orld: They will also desire to become guar dian angels over their mortal kin. JEHOVIH said: And God shall cause a record to be kept in heaven, of his domin 27. But these spirits, never having known ions and his Lords. And he and they shall My higher heavens, will be unsuitable for the enjoin it upon their successors forever to keep office of ashars; they would be but the blind a like record. leading the blind. 2. And in the times of My harvest a copy 28. To prevent which, God and the Lords of these records shall be taken up to My shall provide these spirits in the first resur etherean kingdoms and filed with My Orian rection with places to dwell i n ; and with Chiefs and Archangels in the roadway of the occupations and opportunities for education. travel of the great serpent,1 for their deliber For I desire them not to remain bound to the ations as to the progress and management of earth, but to rise up and inherit My etherean the inhabitants o f the earth and her heavens. kingdoms. 3. Think not, 0 ye angels, that the resurree- 29. And in this also shall ye be discreet in tion of your heirs, and their descendants that governing them, giving them the light of My come up out of the earth, is an easy matter heavens with some liberty to choose and to and of steady progress, devoid of mishaps and perfect themselves. Otherwise they would woeful darkness. only be slaves in heaven. According to their weakness or strength, so shall ye provide for 4. The angels under you shall become at these new spirits entering My es world. times rebellious and defiant; disregarding your laws and decrees; and they shall desert 30. Therefore such of you as are appointed your heavenly places and go down to the earth by My God and My Lords as guardians over in millions and. hundreds of millions. And mortals shall be called A s h a r s , and ye shall they shall drive away the ashars, and then report to your respective Lords, according to assume guardianship over mortals. But they the section of the earth where ye may be. shall develop no righteousness under the sun, Of many watches shall be the ashars. but they will inspire mortals to war and de struction. And these angels will themselves 31. And such of you as are appointed to take to war and evil on every hand within the receive the spirits of the dead into heaven place of your heavens. shall be called A saphs, and ye shall report to your respective Lords and their kingdoms. 5. W ith the foul gases of atmospherea shall they make weapons of war and places of tor 32. And the ashars shall make a record of ment. W ith these elements shall they make every mortal, o f the grade o f his wisdom and suffocating hells in order to cast one another good w orks; and when a mortal dieth, and his in chaos. spirit is delivered to the asaphs, the record shall be delivered with h im ; and the asaph, 6. And mortals who shall be slain in war, receiving, shall deliver such spirit, with the shall be born in spirit in chaos on the battle record into such place in these heavens as is fields ; in chaos shall such spirits enter the es adapted to his grade, where he shall be put to world. 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