Chapter 17
Remember the words of your God, O man, and be reasonable in your understanding.
Wherever you build a city, and it increases in inhabitants, it equally increases in pauperism and crime. Nor do you have any doctrine under the sun to provide against this.
But I have now opened the book of knowledge before you. The place of my habitation and of the line of my light and of my holy angels I have made plain.
You may travel a thousand other roads, but none other shall be blessed with the light of my countenance.
As you say at the door of the college: Young man, neither prayers nor confessions shall graduate you in my house, to be companion to those who have passed on before you.
So I say at the gates of my exalted heavens, to the inhabitants of the earth: Only by knowledge and righteous works, done to one another, shall you be able to endure the light of my kingdoms.
Now it shall come to pass, early in the Kosmon era, that many shall be gifted to heal by laying on of hands. And they shall say: Behold, the lost gift has returned! Have I not done a good thing in the world?
But I say to you, O man, that these also mistake the coming of Jehovih’s kingdom.
The healing of the sick may be compared to giving alms to the poor, and saying: Have I not done a good work?
I say to you, these things were of the past cycles. They shall now consider what shall be done to prevent sickness. This is better than to heal. They shall now consider what shall be done to prevent poverty. This is better than giving to the poor.
I have not come to heal and treat the diseased in flesh or spirit; nor to re-establish any of the ancient doctrines or revelations.
I am not a patcher-up of old garments.
I am not an apologizer for ancient revelations, nor do I have anything in common with what is past.
Neither their doctrines, nor sacred books, nor their Gods, Lords or Saviors are anything before me.
I have not come to captivate the ignorant and unlearned. Nor have I come to call sinners to repentance; nor to convert the debauchee, profane man, or harlot.
Sufficient have been other revelations to all these.
Nor have I come to say: Behold, this is my book! And there shall be none other!
But, behold, I come to found Jehovih’s kingdom on earth. I come to the wise and learned. And not to one man only; but to thousands.
That which I am uttering in these words, in this place, I am also uttering in the souls of thousands, and I will bring them together.
I do not command, saying: You shall believe, because I, your God, have said it, or revealed it in this book.
I come as your elder brother, in the name of Jehovih. I show you how you can live without the governments of man. And how you shall live, in order to join in my resurrections.
Let the Faithist of this day not say: I will purify the government! I will leaven the whole mass!
I say to you, your God does not labor in such method. The cure is, come out of Uz, and be clean.
Whoever has more faith in Uz, let him remain in Uz; whoever has faith in Jehovih, let him come into His kingdoms.
To know your Father in heaven, O man, who has learned this? They profess Him in words, but they belie Him in their behavior.
Renounce them, O my beloved; gather up your household, and follow my voice, which I speak into your soul from the Almighty. Follow your highest knowledge, and make yourself a glory in Jehovih’s kingdoms, forever and ever.