Book of Saphah

S.: By what authority do you approach the Chamber of Adepts?

I: As Jehovih created me, so I am.

S.: What can you do?

I: I labor more than is needed to provide for myself. I govern my passions and corporeal desires; I never speak in anger, or even think in anger, or hatred or envy. I never talk about myself, or what I can do, or what I have done, so as to laud myself. Neither do I seek to justify myself, by words or arguments, for errors that I may have committed. I contend with no one for any thing, principle, or knowledge of my own. I administer to others for their corporeal and spiritual resurrection and happiness.

S.: Would you not contend for right and justice, against wrong and bondage?

I: Alas, I might be in error as to what is right or wrong; or justice, or bondage. No, I do not contend at all; neither do I resist; nor set up my judgment against any man’s. The light of the Father which I receive, that, I declare to others.

S.: What else have you attained?

I: To adapt myself to others, so as to be desired by them. I have taught myself to love to wait on and assist the low and depraved; to wash them and provide them with comfort. I have overcome all desire to serve myself for self’s sake in any way whatsoever.

S.: What are your possessions?

I: Nothing. I have put away all earthly possessions.

S.: What are your qualifications?

I: Try me.

(The initiate is now tried as to his capacity to see spiritually, while blindfolded, and to hear spiritually something beyond the reach of mortal ears. Then he exhibits the power of angels to write on the tablets before the altar, in the presence of witnesses. After this the initiate asks the angels to lift him to the ceiling, and this is also accomplished in the presence of witnesses. Next he casts himself in trance, and the angels come in sar’gis and talk to the people. After this he goes out of his mortal body, traveling in spirit to a neighbor’s house, seeing and hearing what is there, and making his spirit manifest to that place; and then he returns and re-inhabits his own body. Thus ends the trial.)

S.: You are found worthy of the most sacred Order of Adepts. What do you hope to gain by this initiation?

I: By meeting with like fellows, the soul of man finds a haven of rest, after which man comes forth again invigorated for arduous labor.

(After this, follows the ceremony of passing the arch, and attaining to the foot of the throne of light, where the initiate makes his vows to Jehovih. Music, bells, etc., etc., omitted.) Chamber of Prophecy