Chapter 5
Whoever rules over his own earthly desires, passions, actions, words and thoughts, being constantly watchful for the highest light and greatest good, is on the right road.
And if he persists in this till it has become a constitutional growth within him, then he shall hear the Voice.
Who then can judge him, except those who have also attained to the same high estate? Is it wise for the unlearned to dispute with the learned; or the unholy with the holy?
Shall the drunken man, reeking with foul smell, sign the pledge to drink no more, and immediately say: We temperance men! || and presume to dwell with the pure?
I say to you, till that man is purified and grown to be constitutionally temperate he is not temperate.
Consider then the seers and prophets (who hear the angels) whether they have grown constitutionally to be one with Purity, Wisdom and Goodness.
For this is required of those who presume to hear me and my holy ones. And having attained to this, who, except those who have attained to the same, can judge them?
Shall a man ask a magician regarding the inspiration of the prophets of your God? Or the angels of the first resurrection be consulted as to their opinions of my revelations, and their words taken for truth without substantiation?
Let all things be proved, or supported by corresponding testimony known to be true. As the holy man perceives how things should be in the heavens above, so they are. The unholy man sees heavenly things only dimly; he binds himself in ancient revelations which have become corrupted.
Jehovih is as near this day as in the time of the ancients; put yourself in order, becoming one with Him, and no book is so easily read as His created universe.
Inspiration comes less by books, than by what Jehovih wrote: His worlds. Read Him and His works. Frame your speech and your thoughts for Him; He will answer you in your own behavior, and in the happiness of your soul.
Great wisdom cannot be attained in a day; nor purity and strength to overcome temptation, till the growth is from the foundation.
The fool will say: The sacred books are no more than man of his own knowledge could write; yet, he has not wisely imitated the power of the words of your God.
Let him do this well, and, behold, he will also declare my words are from me. Yes, he will recognize them wherever found.
It is the will and wish of your God, that all men become constitutionally capable of receiving and comprehending the highest light, and that they shall no longer depend upon any priest, church, oracle, holy book, or upon consulting the spirits.
And that their behavior may make the earth a place of peace, with long life to all people, for the glory of Jehovih.