Chapter 11
Attend, O man, to the discourse of your God upon the second resurrection in heaven, and apply these principles to founding Jehovih’s kingdom on earth.
Many come to my holy place, saying: Hear me, O God, I am weary of the first resurrection and the earth. Open the gates of paradise to your servant.
And I say to them: Whoever will put aside all that is below, shall dwell in this heaven; but whoever cannot in heart, mind and soul renounce all that is below is not prepared to enter.
Has Jehovih not said: On earth, husband and wife shall be the model and key of My kingdom?
As woman forsakes father, mother, brother and sister and becomes one with her husband, so do those entering my organic heavens forsake all the earth and the lowest heaven in order to become one with the kingdom of your God.
For, unless the mind and heart are one with my holy place, the love of improvement will also depart out of that man’s soul.
Isolation belongs below the second resurrection, but unity is within it.
He who has disciplined himself to be honest in his own sight may be in error; he who strives to do good on his own account may be in error as to an ultimate good; and in all cases man alone is weak.
Yet no man can practice the highest while living with those who are inclined downward.
In the second resurrection the angels are relieved of individual responsibility, all matters being under the wisdom of the Holy Council, whose head is your God.
First on earth, monarchies, then republics, then fraternities, the latter order of which is now in embryo, and shall follow after both the others.
Behold how hard it is for an ignorant man to conceive of a state without a master, or for the people of a republic to understand a state without votes and majorities, and a chief ruler. Yet such shall be the fraternities.
Have they not resolved their colleges into teachers and pupils? By their superior knowledge, these heads receive their places, yet not as rulers, but teachers.
Have they not resolved jurisprudence so that testimony governs the rulings? According to evidence adduced and the knowledge of the judge, so shall he decide, and not according to his own volition.
Out of the wisdom of the college and the court you shall discover the rules of fraternity, and by relieve-watch [rotation in office –Ed.] preserve the brotherhood against caste and dictatorship.
See to it then, in departing out of uz, that you take with you only things that have proved good—the rest leave behind.
As Jehovih gave woman to man, and the two became one in their aspiration, hope and labor, and especially with reference to their offspring, so shall the members of the fraternity be those who, having renounced all the world, can become one with one another, and especially for raising up the young to become the Father’s edifice on earth.
As the husband is the representative head of the family, yet he shall not tyrannize over them, nor by his rulings make himself a separate entity from the rest.