Chapter 17
As this history has overlapped the running story, hear now how it was with Ahura and his kingdom, Vara-pishanaha, which Lika visited prior to the deliverance of the hells of hada. To accomplish the resurrection of Vara-pishanaha, Lika had previously sent swift messengers to Ye’a-Goo, Goddess of Ha’mistos, in etherea, to bring an avalanza capable of six billion Brides and Bridegrooms for the mid-harvest (mid-dawn).
Accordingly, at the time Lika and his Rapon hosts were visiting Ahura, the Goddess, Ye’a-Goo, came down in her avalanza, fully equipped. Her avalanza was egg-shaped with its outside veiled, and was seven miles high and five miles wide every way, habitable throughout. On the outer surface, but under the veil, were twelve thousand porches with banisters. The propelling vortices were within the center, and the workmen were in the summit. On the lowest porch were five hundred thousand es’enaurs, and on the highest porch one thousand trumpeters.
Ye’a-Goo’s compartment and the place of the Holy Council were in the middle; and her throne faced to the north, like the earth’s vortex.
Ahura said to Lika, Son of Jehovih: My Brides and Bridegrooms I give to you; honor this dissolving kingdom by performing the marriage ceremony. Lika said: Your will and Jehovih’s be done. Thus it was arranged, and the two, along with the Rapon hosts, ascended the throne together and sat upon it.
Ahura had previously prepared his hosts, in all, four and a half billion Brides and Bridegrooms, and arrayed them in white; they anxiously awaited the coming of Ye’a-Goo, and were on the lookout to see her magnificent ship descending. A place of anchorage had also been previously made, together with accommodation for the spectators, of whom there were one and a half billion, being adopted wanderers, rescued from the various hells during the past hundred years.
The Brides and Bridegrooms were arranged in semi-circles facing the throne, leaving a place for the avalanza, which would be above them, so that when Ye’a-Goo descended from her ship’s bottom she would be in the center of the semi-circles and before the throne.
While the ship’s workmen were anchoring, Ye’a-Goo and her Holy Council descended to the platform, and saluted the Gods and Goddesses on the throne in the Sign, THE GLORY OF THE FATHER, and Lika and the others answered under the Sign, THE ABANDONMENT OF SELF!
Ye’a-Goo said: In Jehovih’s name I come to answer the call of His Son, to deliver the emancipated Sons and Daughters.
Lika said: Behold, O Daughter of Jehovih, the Brides and Bridegrooms are before you. To you I give them in Jehovih’s name!
Ye’a-Goo said: My beloved, do you know the resurrection of the most high heavens?
Response: Reveal, O Goddess; our faith is strong. ||
Ye’a-Goo instructed them, and then the usual ceremonies followed, but concluding with the seventh degree of emuth, in Jehovih’s voice: To be My Brides and Bridegrooms forever?
Response: To be Your Brides and Bridegrooms forever, O Jehovih! To labor for You, and to be mouthpieces for Your commandments, and to be Your expression forever! And to be in concert with Your most high Gods for the resurrection of mortals and angels.
Jehovih: Whom I receive as Mine forever! To be one with Me in My kingdoms; for which glory I accept you as My Sons and Daughters, Brides and Bridegrooms forever!
Response: And be Your Sons and Daughters! To be one with You forever, Most High, Jehovih!
Ye’a-Goo said: Behold the crowns the Father bestows upon His loves, to be theirs forever. (And now the Rapon Chiefs, with Lika, gathered of the curtains of light and wove crowns and cast them forth, billions, and the power of the Great Spirit through their wills bore them upon the heads of the Brides and Bridegrooms.)
Response: Crown of Your Crown, O Jehovih! Glory to You, Creator of worlds!
Ye’a-Goo: The Father’s ship has come for His chosen. Walk in and rejoice, for you are His harvest. Gods and Goddesses are waiting for you, as a woman waits for her first-born. They will receive you with joy and love. Yes, they are crying out to me, Daughter of Jehovih, why do you take so long? ||
Lika now saluted the Brides and Bridegrooms, and said: Arise, O my beloved, and go your ways, the Father calls.
The Brides and Bridegrooms saluted, saying: Alas, we have not paid our teacher, Ahura. And every one plucked from the rays of Jehovih’s light a flower of love, and cast it at Ahura’s feet, saying: Most blessed of Gods, love of my love; Jehovih be with you!
Ahura did not respond; only burst into tears. And now, while the Brides and Bridegrooms were going into the ship, Ye’a-Goo came along the platform, accompanied by the chief marshal and his staff, and these were followed by Ye’a-Goo’s High Council. The Rapon Chiefs rose up and received them, and they all sat on Jehovih’s throne in relaxation and fellowship.
Thus ended the ceremony. The music of the two spheres now commenced; Ye’a-Goo and her hosts embarked, and she gave the word, Arise! and lo, the great avalanza started from its foundation, amid a universal shout of applause from the four billion. Higher and higher rose the ship of fire, toward the bridge Chinvat, toward the etherean heavens.