Chapter 10
You are remembered, O man, by your God, and admonished and instructed for your soul’s sake, so that you may become a glory to your Creator and to yourself.
Hear, then, your responsibility and its extent, and consider the magnitude of your own grade on earth and in heaven.
Which is in proportion to the power and distance of your reach. Of which I have also graded all men on earth and in heaven.
If your Creator gives you strength to carry four men on your back, and you will carry only one, you shall be one-quarter grade. But if you carry the whole four, you shall be full grade.
One man has the means to feed one man; another has enough for a thousand; and another for a hundred thousand. These are the distances of the reach and power of these men, which is the extent beyond which nothing more can be exacted of them, on earth or in heaven.
Yet when they have all fulfilled these to the utmost, they shall be in this only equal in grade.
But if they fail in their parts, the responsibility of one shall be a hundred thousand; and another shall be one thousand, and the least shall be only one. These are the debts men owe the people of the nation, the city and the hamlet.
Consider, therefore, the darkness of the people of your nation; the poverty and the crime; and judge yourself as to your own responsibility.
And this rule shall apply both on earth and in heaven. And your grade of responsibility in heaven shall begin even in the same place you established it on the earth. Where you were short, you shall labor; where you did fulfill, you shall rejoice, and be without compunctions.
This rule shall also apply to the king, queen, emperor, and all rulers who have means and power; and the responsibility shall extend to all the people of the kingdom or empire.
Nor shall this responsibility be escaped by death; but the bondage in heaven shall be according to the avoidance of the trust imposed.
Consider, then, what you shall be encumbered with in the es world.
Pursue this philosophy, and you shall determine what the labor of the king shall be and of the queen and the great ruler, after they have died, and entered the es world.
Find the grade of their respective dominions, and you shall determine, by its ascension, the duration of their bondage in the first resurrection, whether it is fifty years or five hundred years.
But if the emperor’s dominions are in declension instead of resurrection, then, on his entrance into heaven, he shall be at the mercy of the spirits of his kingdom, who shall be waiting for him, and he shall not escape them.
Some other heavenly kingdom shall deliver them; otherwise, they fall into anarchy and madness (hell).