The Oahspe Project

Book of Inspiration

Chapter 4

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When the infant is young, My Light is its first knowledge, says Jehovih.

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It sees Me and hears Me; and it sees and hears My angels (through its spiritual senses).

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By the pressure of My Light upon its corporeal eyes and ears, it learns to see and hear corporeally.

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This is the beginning of two senses, which I created to grow parallel to each other, and equal in strength.

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But the infant, being in the corporeal world, heeds the things that appeal to the corporeal senses more than those that appeal to the spiritual senses.

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So that one person grows up, forgetting Me and My angels. He is a skeptic.

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But another person grows up, remembering Me and My angels. He is a believer.

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And behold, you, O man, inquire of them: Where did the idea of a Creator, an All Person, come from?

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And one of them answers you: It is inherent; it is natural.

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But the other answers: It is folly; it came from darkness.

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But I say to you, O man: Darkness cannot create an idea; darkness would not even be known except for the light I make beside it.

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You cannot imagine any animal under the sun which I have not created.

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Man said: I imagine a horse with a fish’s head and fins.

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Whatever you invent, says Jehovih, you merely take the parts of one of My creations, and put them to another.

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Let this prove to you, if you cannot invent a new living creature, that your forefathers did not do so either in regard to Me.

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Nevertheless, you have a thought, and an idea of Me and of My Person.

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And you have a thought, and an idea of the spirits of the dead.

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By My Presence and inspiration upon you, I taught you I am the I AM, a Person.

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By the inspiration and presence of My angels, I taught you of them also.

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My inspiration upon the bird causes it to sing; by My presence I teach it to build its nest.

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By My presence I color one rose red, and another white.

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Proof of My Person is in the harmony of the whole, and of every one being a person of itself, perfect in its order.