Chapter 24
These are the records of the C’chiefs of the Father’s kingdoms:
Jehovih separated the people, the Uzians on one hand, and the Faithists on the other.
And He said to the Uzians: Because I called, and you did not come;
Because you said: Your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven, and you did not put forth a hand in My behalf;
Because you saw the multitude going after intoxicating drink, smoke and opium;
Because you did not rise up, saying: Stay your hand, satan!
But shirked, granting licenses to these sins;
And you have become a polluted people;
Given to drunkenness, smoking, and all manner of dissipation;
Each one casting the blame on others, and hiding himself in self-righteousness;
Thus opening the doors of your houses of debauchery as a temptation to the young:
Behold, I have risen in judgment against you.
My holy angels I shall withdraw from your cities;
And from your places of worship;
And from your government, and your lawmakers and rulers;
For they have profaned Me.
Making laws and granting licenses to carry on evils, knowingly and willfully, for policy’s sake;
Hoping for personal favor and gain.
For they knew that what was not good for one person, was not good for a nation;
And that, whatever sin indulged in, would, sooner or later, bring its own punishment.
And they said: We derive great revenue from the duties and licenses for these iniquities!
Thus hoping to justify themselves by compounding themselves.
And I said to them: Revenue thus received shall be expended in prisons and alms- houses, and shall not be sufficient.
Because you granted licenses, and polluted the people, behold, the pollution shall more than balance the revenues.
The criminals and paupers shall be a greater burden than if you received no revenue.
Behold, I showed you that as an individual could not sin against Me without, sooner or later, becoming answerable to Me, so, also, I showed you that the same responsibility and result would befall a nation or a people.
For which reasons, and because of your evasions of My commandments, I called to My God, Lords and holy angels, saying: Do not waste your time and labor anymore with the Uzians;
Nor answer their prayers when they call on My name;
And even if their chief rulers and lawmakers are in the throes of death, and they call, saying: O Jehovih, heal our Chief Magistrate!
Yet, you shall not go to them, nor do them any more service.
For they have become a conceited people, saying: There is no God, and Jehovih is void as the wind.
Behold, you shall let them go their way; their cities shall become full of crime, for angels of darkness shall come among them, and no city shall be safe from theft, murder and arson.
And vagabonds shall roam the country places, stealing, robbing and murdering.
And their great men shall take bribes, and their judges shall connive with sin; and the innocent shall be confined in madhouses.
And justice shall depart away from them.
The employee shall pilfer and steal from his employer; and the employer shall hire others to keep those in his employ under surveillance.
But all things shall fail them.
For I will make them understand, I am the First Principle in all things;
And that I am Justice;
And that I am Purity;
And that whoever raises a hand against justice, purity, virtue, wisdom and truth, also raises his hand against Me.
I made the way of life like going up a mountain; whoever turns aside or goes downward, shall ultimately repent of his course, and he shall retrace his steps.
To a nation and a people, and to a government of a people, I am the same.
Righteousness shall be first and foremost of all things.
Their governors and lawmakers shall be made to know this.
When they were a monarchy, I held the king responsible.
But when I gave liberty for the multitude to govern themselves, behold, I also gave responsibility to them.
And they did not seek to make laws for righteous government over the whole, but sought to favor certain cliques of iniquities, and to make laws to protect them in evil manufactories, and for traffic in tobacco, opium and alcohol.
And no man any longer sought to be a governor or lawmaker for the good of the people, or to serve Me.
But he sought office for profit’s sake and vainglory.
Now, therefore, My holy angels went away from them, and no longer answered their prayers.
And the righteousness of the first days departed away from them.
And they became a nation of money- getters and servants of mammon.
And I did not bless their marriages or their households.
And their sons and daughters did not respect their fathers and mothers; for, as the fathers and mothers did not respect Me, so, disrespect and misery came upon them.
And their sons and daughters became profligates and idlers, growing up for no good under the sun, depending on their wits to work out a life of sin and luxury.
And whoever married, peace did not come to them; but contention, jealousy and bitterness of heart.
And their offspring fell in the grades, becoming outcasts, paupers and criminals.
And husbands and wives cried out for divorce on all hands.
And the lawmakers granted them and favored them; but, lo and behold, the evil multiplied on the earth.
In pity I cried out to them, saying: You may make laws forever, but My kingdom does not come by the road of man’s laws. Unless you turn around, and begin again, there is no help for you under the sun.
But they would not hear Me.
Then I sent My angels to them, teaching them the same things that were taught of old, among which were: As you bind yourselves on earth, so shall you be bound in heaven; as you live on earth, serving self only, so, into a selfish heaven, you shall enter My es worlds.
But they denied My angels, and abused My seers and prophets.
In their own self-esteem, they set themselves up to judge Me, saying: There is no All Person; there is nothing, except certain natural and divine laws, and they are dumb, like the wind; they do not see, nor do they hear.
Then I called out over the earth, saying: The time of My kingdom has come. Now is the time of My reign among mortals.
And those who had faith came; and behold, they have built for Me.
I have a new people on the earth.
Again I called to My God and his angel hosts, saying: Behold, I have separated the wheat from the chaff; I have divided the sheep from the goats.
Go to those who serve Me in the practice of My kingdom, for they shall become the chief people in all the world.
They shall rejoice and prosper in all things; they shall sing songs of gladness.
Their sons and daughters shall be an honor to them and a glory in My household.
All this shall come to pass because they seek to serve Me, by practicing good works with all their wisdom and strength.