Chapter 12
Of all My created animals, only man I created not perfect in his order, says Jehovih.
I created him as the most devoid of knowledge, and the most helpless of animals.
I did not give the bird capacity to improve her feathers; nor yet to improve her species; nor did I give her a book, either on how to build her nest, or regarding her behavior with other birds.
Nor did I say to the hare: Beware of foxes; or: Go, teach your young to depend on their fleetness.
And yet both, birds and beasts, move by My inspiration, perfectly in the order I made them; the bird does her work, and the hare flees from the fox.
But the child of man will put its finger in a serpent’s mouth, and the child will also eat any deadly poison.
Thus I created man differently from all other things on earth; but I gave him the foundation upon which he could attain to perfection in all the attributes of My other living creatures.
And I said to man: Be observant of what you shall eat and drink, and where you shall dwell by day, and sleep by night.
For all things shall write upon your soul the character and kind of which they are made.
If you will be gentle, like a lamb, and non-resistant and docile, and so you can obtain great knowledge, feed upon herbs, fruits and cereals.
And your blood shall be pure and cool, and charged with food for your spirit, in peace and love.
But if you will be ferocious, like a carnivorous beast, then you shall feed upon flesh and fish, and your blood shall be hot, and your spirit shall be stirred with passion, anger, contention, tattling, war, jealousy, and love of vengeance.
For whatever you charge your blood with, shall be charged upon your spirit.
Because you cannot feed on fish or flesh except through destruction to death, even so, destruction to death shall come upon your soul.
From your own blood your spirit shall be inspired, even according to what your blood contains.
As through corpor your corporeal part is nurtured, so through the gaseous, atmospherean part your spirit is nurtured.
|| Woman said: Behold, I do not kill any lamb, bird or fish. Others kill them, but I eat them. ||
To kill My lambs and birds, and whatever I created alive, is a simple act, says Jehovih. Let no man waste much speech because of such destructions.
It is the contamination of the blood of man by carnivorous food, upon which you shall ponder.
I created all the living so that like would attract like. Whoever makes himself carnivorous, cannot escape conflict and contention within his own members, soul and body.
Until the earth was circumscribed, I gave man carnivorous food; today, I make it poison to him.
And man shall turn away from it; and the smell of it shall sicken him; and the sight of blood shall fill him with horror.
The butcher shall be ashamed of his vocation; his neighbors shall say to him: You stink of blood!
Because you gave us flesh, we also drank to drunkenness.
Because you gave us flesh, we also smoked, and took narcotics.
Because you gave us flesh, we are rotten with catarrh, and wasted in the lungs.
Because we feasted on flesh, Jehovih answered us in corruptible flesh.
Lo, we stink from the sole of our feet to the crown of our heads.
And our offspring are born into the world so helpless and corrupt that half of them die in infancy. ||
Jehovih said: When I command the nations of the earth to peace, behold I raise My hand above the carnivorant’s head.
As there was a time when I created every animal perfect in its order; so also shall such a time come to man.
And now is the dawn of that time. Therefore, I named it Kosmon.
As the spider learns to build her web without a book, and the bees to dwell in a queendom in peace and industry without books, written laws, and instructions on how to do this and that, even so, now is a new birth to the generations of My people.
By My direct inspiration upon them they shall learn to do all things perfectly, in the order of man for which I created him.
Man shall know how to do things easily, and without the long labor of books, and without being shown or instructions given.
As of old, I commanded you to have dominion over every living thing I created; so, now, I command you to take the earth and the waters of the earth and the air above the earth into your dominion also.
And you shall rule over them; to drive away the heat, and bring the cold; to drive away the cold, and bring the heat; as you will, for the benefit of all the living.
To accomplish which, you shall now, first of all, adapt yourself to your Creator, according to My highest Light upon you:
To put away your own disharmony in your blood and flesh, and in your soul.
Opening the way for My inspiration to come direct to you, so that you may be one with Me.