Chapter 18
Es said: Such, then, was the fate of the chief false Gods in the lower heavens.
But during the preceding three or four hundred years, many of the officers of these false Gods had seceded from them, and had set up small heavenly kingdoms of their own. And their mortal followers were called sects.
These little heavens were, for the most part, situated on the earth, and usually these small Gods inhabited the churches where mortals came to worship.
And the preachers within these churches fell under the inspiration of these itinerant Gods and their gangs of wandering spirits.
In Guatama, these inspirations were carried to such an extent by these drujan Gods, that the mortals of one sect were made hostile, one sect against another.
An enmity, therefore, existed between protestants and catholics, and between protestants themselves, and between all of these and the Jews. And not only on earth, between mortals, did these things take place, but these petty Gods had small kingdoms of their own; as a presbyterian heaven; a methodist heaven; a baptist heaven, and so on. And when a mortal member died, his spirit fell into his heaven, where he had lived, becoming a servant to these drujas. And when he cried out: I want to go to Jesus, I want to go to Kriste, he was shown the drujan God, and told: That is he! Which he would believe to be true. For what is bound on earth, is bound in heaven.
A drujan God, Piad, established a sect and named it, Mormon. He located his kingdom on earth with his mortal followers, and he became master over the spirits of his mortal followers in the same way, calling himself, the TRUE KRISTE.
Piad taught that all good Mormons would ultimately attain to rule over some planet and her heavens. But he never permitted the angels of his kingdom to go out of his reach. He also taught mortals that the more numerous progeny a man begot, the greater his heavenly kingdom would be, in time to come. For this was Piad’s scheme to make his own heavenly kingdom large and powerful.
Another drujan God, Lowgannus, established a kingdom on earth and named it, Shaker Heaven, pretending he was the TRUE KRISTE. And his place became a heavenly bondage to himself.
Another drujan God, Sayawan, established a heavenly kingdom on earth and called it, THE ALL HIGHEST HEAVEN.
This Lord called himself, THE LORD. He raised up a mortal, Swedenborg, whom he took in spirit, subjectively, into many of the lowest heavens and hells, saying to him:
Behold those who do not serve THE LORD! How hard it is with them! And he further said: This place of darkness is the Brahmin heaven; that place of darkness is the Buddhist heaven! But this place of light is my heaven, I, THE LORD.
And in that way, this drujan God established a Swedenborg heaven, and mortals looked upon him as the true Kriste; and after death, their souls went there.
So it came to pass, as had been prophesied of old: Lo, Kriste, here! Lo, Kriste, there!
And, as it was with Looeamong’s heavenly kingdoms, thus split into hundreds of remnants, it was even so with the heavenly kingdoms of the other false Gods, Brahma, the false, and Buddha, the false; so that on the earth, there were thousands of petty Gods’ heavenly kingdoms of darkness and misery.
Now all of these drujan Gods, whether of Chine’ya, Vind’yu, Arabin’ya, Uropa or Guatama, rejected Jehovih, but took the name of one of the four false Gods, and protested that he, himself, was the real and true God and Savior.
And mortal sects that followed them, did the same thing. The presbyterian professed the true Kriste, but denounced all others as false; the methodist professed the true Kriste, but denounced all others as false; the Mormon professed the true Kriste, but denounced all others; the Roman catholics also professed the true Kriste, but denounced all others as false. And it was the same with all of them, and none of them practiced righteousness and good works, but were warriors and money-getters, for self’s sake.
God had said: Behold, I give a new testimony to the nations of the earth: In the time I overcame, and cast out the four heads of the beast, the acrimony existing between different sects began, suddenly, to die out, and they spoke friendly to one another. ||
And it was so.