Chapter 15
Of the abundance of your Creator’s creations be appalled, O man!
Consider the inhabitants of the whole earth, and the number of a billion brought into life every thirty-three years.
Compute the number for a thousand years, and for ten thousand years.
And yet, the earth is not full.
And the heavens of the earth are even as if scarcely habited. There are thousands of plateaus, with no angels to dwell on them.
But to induce the spirits of the dead to rise up from the earth, this is the work and the glory of your God.
To make them put away earthly desires, to become pure, wise and strong, and adapted to the sublimated spheres, what an endless labor for your God and his exalted angels.
As you, O man of the earth, hold to the desire for earthly things, you entail yourself in heaven, and cannot rise upward. Even so is it with the great harvest, the billions of angels born of the earth.
If you stand a pyramid before you, the width of the base being equal to the height, such are the proportions of the spirits of the dead on their entrance into the es world.
Consider, then, O man, how sparse the settlements are in the upper kingdoms of the earth’s heavens, compared to the numbers in the lowest grade. And remember the percentage of inspiration that comes to you from this lowest grade, which is doubly degraded in the cities and great capitals.
Know, O man, that all cities built by men, sooner or later fall into destruction. Search into the generations, as to the grade of mortals, and you have a type of the spirits of that city, chiefly as to the lowest grades. But remember, the highest grades of angels go away, while the lowest remain. As the spirits of one generation are to the form of a pyramid, so, not so will be the spirits of that city in the next generation.
But in proportion to the increase of the mortal city, and in proportion to the raising up of the second, third, fourth and fifth grades, so will the relative increase be in the proportion of drujas that dwell in that city.
And in time, all holiness passes away from there; and when your God abandons that city for a day, taking away his holy angels, the people fall into anarchy, or run with brands of fire and burn down the city.
And the hundreds of millions of drujas lose their anchorage on the earth, and your God and his exalted ones march them away.
Find the grade and the rate of declension of the mortals of a city, and when the whole number, including the spirits, has fallen to one percent, you shall prophesy the time of the fall of that city.
Be fearful of the abundance of drujas about you; and search out your own imperfections, uncleanness and your passions, lest drujas fasten upon you in a way you do not know of.
Do not call upon the spirits of the dead to come to you; but call on your Creator for wisdom, light, truth and purity; and if it will be well for you, He will send to you those spirits who are best adapted to you for your resurrection.
Whoever consults the spirits as to earthly things, profit, great undertakings, marriage, war, or riches, is already in the hands of drujas. Woe to him in the hour of death.
When you sit in communion with angels, do so reverently to your Creator; and the members of your circle shall pray to Him, or sing songs of praise and glory to Him and His works. Nor shall you habit yourself to sit with those who do not do this reverence to Jehovih. And when the angels appear and converse with you, remember that even the least of them has passed the bars of death.
Do not be long-faced or melancholy with doleful songs; but rather cheerful, like the birds that sing to the Creator. And let your speech be respectful, and relating to spiritual things. Learn from them of the places they inhabit in heaven, and the manner of their occupations.
And if you inquire of them regarding earthly things, let it be about how you may help the poor and distressed.
For, if the angel that talks with you is a druj only, your discourse shall, in this way, awaken him to see his own shortness.
And if they are high-raised angels, they shall understand the working of your soul, and they will provide you for your everlasting exaltation.
Be upright before your Creator and your God who know your weakness. Emulate them in all your doings, for this is the way of resurrection, worlds without end.