Chapter 6
In the beginning of the second year of Cpenta-armij in Craoshivi, messengers came before Jehovih’s throne, saluting, and greeting from Ctusk, who now lived under the name, Ahura, and submitted the following communication:
Ctusk, who has become Ahura, a servant of Jehovih, and is now God of Ailkin by just judgment of Jehovih, desires audience with the Most High-Raised Cpenta-armij, Daughter of the Great Spirit.
To this Cpenta-armij answered: Greeting, in love to my brother, Ahura. By the Grace and Power of Jehovih, come and see me, bringing your attendants. || Now, after the lapse of a few days, Ahura came to Craoshivi, attended by one million, escorted by music, and proclaimed according to the discipline of the higher heavens, with heralds and trumpeters. And Cpenta-armij’s hosts received Ahura and conducted him and his hosts within the capital chamber; and Ahura went before Jehovih’s throne, saluting on the sign, SECOND PLATEAU and Cpenta-armij answered in NIRVANIAN ROAD, SALKWATKA. She said:
In the name of the Great Spirit, Whose Daughter I am, I welcome you in love and high esteem. I know all your past record, and look upon you as the foundation of one of Jehovih’s brightest suns. I have long desired that you should petition to come to see me; and I much desired to see you and greet you in the Father’s name.
Ahura said: O Most High Chieftainess, of hundreds of thousands of years, how can I stand before you? I know you have seen many truants in your day, and watched their course thousands of years. You can see before me all that awaits me and mine; the past and the future are as an open book before you. That I have stood before you and looked upon you, I am blessed above all things since the day of my birth.
Behold, the hand of the Great Spirit has appeared before me; I comprehend the only road that leads to everlasting resurrections; I know that the ONE ALL PERSON must always stand as the KEYNOTE for angels and mortals. Without Him, a man is like a ship without a rudder; the seas around him drive him to ruin in the end. Blessed is he who has had the experience of this in an early day of his life. Nervous and full of fear is he who has been tried two thousand years!
Then Cpenta-armij spoke, saying: I perceive your desires, O Ahura! I understand why you are before me. Your wisdom is great indeed. You perceive that your plateau is in the second removal from the earth. You fear that some of your hosts will forsake Jehovih, and usurp kingdoms of their own, even as you did in the past. You desire me to raise your plateau farther away from the corporeal earth.
Ahura said: If it is Jehovih’s will; for this is the very reason I have come before you!
Now a great light came, bright, like a sun, and settled over the throne, enveloping the Goddess Cpenta-armij, and Jehovih’s Voice spoke out of the light to Ahura, saying:
My Son, My Son, why have you so little faith! Behold, I am with you even as I am with this, My Daughter. All you lack is faith. Go back to your plateau and raise it yourself. My Daughter shall come to you, and show you how, and you shall not fail. To have faith in Me is to be one with Me; to lack faith in Me is to be far removed from Me.
Ahura said: O Jehovih, teach me how to begin to have faith. To find the beginning, there is my stumbling block!
Jehovih said: By trying Me, there is the beginning. By learning to know your own power in Me; and to know My power in you; this is the sum of all power and wisdom. By the lack of faith in Me, man sets up himself; by the lack of faith in Me, the self-assuming Gods build kingdoms for themselves.
The failure of man is proof of My power; the failure of all kingdoms is proof of the lack of faith in Me, which proves My power is manifested over them. First, after the abjuring of self, comes the constant manifestation of power through faith, the example of which holds the multitude to Me and My works.
Because you have allowed fear in your soul for a relapse of your kingdom, you have opened the door for disaster. Have I not proved this on earth, in which the faith of a captain leads his soldiers on to victory, and his lack of faith breaks them down in weakness and defeat? Do not think, O Ahura, that My examples are any less applicable to My Gods.
If, therefore, My Daughter should come to your kingdom and raise it up, behold, she would lessen your hosts’ faith in you. For which reason you shall return to Ailkin, and proclaim to your people that you will raise your plateau. And though millions of them will consider it vanity, and beyond your power, behold, I will provide for you so that you shall not fail.
Ahura said: I perceive Your Wisdom, O Jehovih! That which You have put upon me, I know I shall accomplish through You. || The Voice departed, and Cpenta-armij spoke on her own account, saying: You shall proclaim a day for this great work; and you shall send invitations to me and my hosts, and to my Gods and Lords, Goddesses and Lordesses. Send, therefore, your surveyors and inspectors, and determine where you would raise your plateau, and you shall be provided from my hosts whatever assistance you may need.
Ahura then saluted, and he and his hosts departed from the capital chamber, and rested awhile in recreation with the etherean hosts; after which they entered their ship, departed and returned to Ailkin. There Ahura appointed the day for the resurrection, and sent messengers throughout atmospherea, proclaiming what he would do, inviting Gods and Lords, with their attendants, to come and spend the day with him.
Jehovih spoke to Cpenta-armij, saying: Send your mathematicians to estimate the grade of Ahura’s plateau; and send your surveyors to the place he has chosen, so that your hosts may know the power required; and you shall provide from your own hosts, privately, suitable stationers so that Ahura shall not fail. For, in time to come, Ahura shall be one of My greatest Gods.