Chapter 11
Jehovih prospered Shalam in every way, more than had been possible to any other people in the whole world.
While the nurses and teachers were providing for the infants, the rest of the people were providing habitations, factories and educational workshops, and also tilling the ground and ornamenting it with fields, gardens, orchards, walkways and terraces.
In regard to the houses: the temple of Jehovih, the temple of Apollo, and the gymnasium were the most important, and yet, none of these were like the buildings of the ancients.
Jehovih had said: Behold, the ancients built their temples so durable that succeeding generations forgot the art of building. It is better for man’s talent to remain, than for stones and pillars of iron.
For which reason, in kosmon, you shall not build imperishably in corporeal things; but rather leave the way open for succeeding generations to build also. ||
The temple of Jehovih, which was devoted to public worship on every seventh day of the week, was provided with fountains in the northeast and southwest, and with the four lights of the square, and with the four dark corners of evil and temptation, and with a throne of Light in the east, with time-bells, a gau and sacred wheel. The ceiling represented the stars and planets, interblended with plateaus of the heavenly kingdoms. The east was adorned with the rising sun, the south with the sun at noon, and the west with the setting sun. The north was adorned with the pole-star and aurora borealis. The belt of the zodiac, colored in cream-yellow, crossed over the ceiling and faded down the east and west walls. On the south wall was the coil and travel of the great serpent (solar phalanx), from the time of the Arc of Bon (of Moses, Capilya and Chine) down to the Arc of Kosmon, in the etherean heavens. Flags of golden colors were provided for the four lights, and were mounted on silver-colored staffs inclining toward the altar of the Covenant; and this was in the place Tae stood, between the crescent horns, when they had, on the first day, made the covenant. And in the place of the crescent, where the fifty-one stood, a stone crescent was laid, provided with seats and gateways (aisles) for successive affiliations to Jehovih’s kingdom. The outside of the temple was made of wood, and was surrounded by posts made of native trees, surmounted with a roof of cement.
When the temple was completed, Tae said: Who but Gods could have made anything so beautiful with such cheap material! And if it perishes in two generations, man shall gain two things; the third generation can build another; and, moreover, we shall not have left a temple on earth that will call us back from the higher heavens for more than two generations of time, to look after mortals who might applaud us.
In regard to worship in the temple, Jehovih had said:
As in ancient days, I provided a preacher to stand at the altar in the east, and speak to the multitude, behold, in kosmon, the multitude shall render before My altar an account of their fulfillment of My commandments, and My C’chief shall respond in My name. ||
And it was indeed so; instead of a preacher denouncing people for their sins, it was a place where the people returned thanks and praises to Jehovih, with rejoicing, in anthems and songs of praise, with pleadings in Jehovih’s name for the Uzians to learn the lessons of the new kingdom.
And it came to pass that Uzians came and listened, looked on and examined, saying and inquiring:
Why was this not tried before? A people without a leader!
And while they pondered, they looked upon the meadows and lawns, the orchards and hothouses and the rich-growing fields, saying: Is this not the garden of Paradise? ||
The temple of Apollo was devoted to music, dancing, calisthenics, initiative processions, rites and ceremonies of amusement. The interior was finished illustrative of proportions and figures of symmetry and beauty. The decorations illustrated attitudes, poses and groupings. On the east summit was a figurative illustration of the God Apollo with his heavenly hosts, descended to the lower heavens in past ages, looking down to earth at a group of druks (ill-formed mortals) with long arms, who were squatting on their haunches. On a well- formed model, Apollo was illustrating to his angels how the druks of earth were to be changed into shapeliness and beauty.
In its external structure, the temple of Apollo illustrated a combination of one thousand designs of architecture, arches, curves, columns, pillars and so on. And yet all of this was made from the forest trees of Shalam and without money.
Next to these was the gymnasium, which contained, among other things, two swimming pools and one hundred single bathrooms.
Here also were all kinds of places for developing muscular action, with swings, ropes to walk, places for leaping, tumbling and climbing. This was under the charge of the group of physicians. The temple of Apollo was under the charge of the group of musicians. The temple of Jehovih was under the charge of the C’chief and his group of Chiefs.
Besides these, were the houses of Architecture and Mechanics, and the house of Horticulture, which adjoined the hothouses on their north and west. Here all kinds of fruit and herbs for food were grown, as were many beautiful flowers, profusely growing throughout the year.
Then there was the Agricultural house; and, too, the factories, for hats, clothing, shoes, cutlery, and, in fact, all conceivable places required by man.
And not the least interesting of all was the house of Nurseries.
Here was the heart and kernel of the whole colony, the orphans and castaways gathered up from among the Uzians.
Now, from the beginning of Shalam’s inhabitation, the Voice had constantly urged Tae and Es to make continual additions of infants to the colony.
The Voice had said: Give your people plenty to do. Keep the nurses busy; give them little to mourn for coming out of Egypt (Uz); keep them at work; keep them in the rites and ceremonies.
Then Tae said to Es: Take one of the women with you, and go back to Uz; gather in more infants.
And so that you may be known and respected by the Uzians as to your occupation, go in plain black dress, without oddity, and I will give each of you a wooden triangle, which shall be suspended on your bosoms by a cord over the neck; for this is the symbol of earth, sky and spirit, the three entities which constitute the universe, being emblematic of Jehovih.
So, Es took Hamarias, a young woman of Thessagowan, and went back to Uz, and in the cities gathered up infant waifs and brought them to Shalam.
And in that way, every year they brought back twenty to fifty additional infants, and adopted them in the nurseries.
So that, in not many years, there were more than a thousand orphans in the colony.
It so happened, that in the second year of Shalam, a disease came among the cows, and the physicians forbade the babies being fed on their milk.
So, for some days, they were in straits as to how to support the infants till other milk could be supplied.
And one Abbayith, an elderly woman, said to them: Why worry? Look, the corn is in ear. Go, gather it, and press out the milk and cook it, and give to the babies; for this is also good milk.
So, they gathered the corn and scraped it and pressed out the milk, which, on being boiled a little, was found to be excellent food for infants.
And so, artificial milk was discovered, even as it is bottled and sold to this day. And the chemists also made water extracts from slippery elm bark, and from flax seed, combined with rice milk, and this also made an excellent liquid food for infants.
Jehovih had said: Whether it is flesh, milk or cheese that man uses for food, behold, in the herbs, plants and trees I created, I gave the same things. Let man discover them, and understand the fruit of My inventions.